Twelve people, one table, no separate bills argument. How to book a group properly and what to order when you do.
Booking for twelve is a different job from booking for two. Half the places in St Julian's will take the reservation and then seat you at three tables in a row, which is not the same thing at all.
What to ask for, and when
Ask for a long table explicitly — it is the first thing to go and the last thing anyone can improvise on the night. Give a few days' notice for anything over eight; more in December, when the room fills weeks out.
Then order for the table rather than individually. Maltese food was built for this: bigilla and ġbejniet in the middle, a platter of antipasto, and then the slow dishes — rabbit, bragoli, a suckling pig if the occasion deserves one. Everyone reaches, nobody waits, and the meal takes the three hours it should.
A group meal that arrives as twelve separate plates is twelve dinners. A long table is one.
Open every day, noon till midnight, in the heart of Paceville.
Booking for twelve is a different job from booking for two. Half the places in St Julian's will take the reservation and then seat you at three tables in a row, which is not the same thing at all.
What to ask for, and when
Ask for a long table explicitly — it is the first thing to go and the last thing anyone can improvise on the night. Give a few days' notice for anything over eight; more in December, when the room fills weeks out.
Then order for the table rather than individually. Maltese food was built for this: bigilla and ġbejniet in the middle, a platter of antipasto, and then the slow dishes — rabbit, bragoli, a suckling pig if the occasion deserves one. Everyone reaches, nobody waits, and the meal takes the three hours it should.
A group meal that arrives as twelve separate plates is twelve dinners. A long table is one.
Open every day, noon till midnight, in the heart of Paceville.
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