Archive for February, 2020
Restaurant
Dinner at Sciacca Grill, Valletta.
Friday, 9th January, 2015.
It is great to note that various restaurateurs are opting to open new establishment embodying the new concept of "premiumised informality", catering for up-market clients serving excellent cuisine, with very good service, in comfortable surroundings yet projecting that aura of relaxation rather than the old fashioned stiffness that used to be associated with full-on, fine dining restaurants.
Such restaurants that have come on line during 2014 were: Wejla By Tartarun at Smart City; Caviar & Bull at the Corinthia St. George's Bay complex, St. Julians; Acqua Terra e Mare at Portomaso, Fork and Cork in Rabat, Malta, and last but not least Sciacca Grill at Valletta. These restaurants have all been visited and all have exceeded expectations. It does seem that the current debate whether or not one should opt to go up-market rather than to continue to provide just mass...
Restaurant
Restaurants visited and reviewed in December, 2014.
Dinner at Fork & Cork Restaurants - Rabat, Malta.
When we titled this review "New kid on the block", we did not want to imply that the Chef-Patron who is running this establishment was someone new on the culinary scene in Malta, but simply to introduce one of the newest restaurant openings which is Fork & Cork Restaurant at Saqqajja Hill, rabalt, Malta. In fact, Carl Zahra, after completing his courses at ITS, he cut his teeth in the practical culinary sphere with Daniel and Andrew Debattista at Rebekkah's Restaurant, when these two brothers were operating it, then Corinthia St. George's Bay where he was the Chef at Grill 3301, and after this latter restaurant closed and passed to new operators sometime in April this year, Carl decided to give a go on his own and Fork & Cork was born. This establishment has only been in operation about two months, but has already att...
