What arrives, in what order, and how long to set aside. For the table that wants the whole island in one sitting.
The usual reason to order a tasting menu is indecision. The better reason, here, is coverage — Maltese cooking is broad and slightly strange, and eating one main course tells you about a tenth of it.
How it runs
It opens where a Maltese meal always opens: things in the middle of the table. Bigilla, ġbejniet, bread, something from the sea. Then the kitchen moves through the dishes that take time — the braised, the slow-cooked, the ones that were started this morning. It finishes sweet, because a Maltese meal that stops abruptly has gone wrong somewhere.
Set aside the evening. This is not a ninety-minute proposition and it is not meant to be. Tell us about anything you do not eat when you book and the kitchen will work around it.
One main course is a dish. The tasting menu is the argument.
The usual reason to order a tasting menu is indecision. The better reason, here, is coverage — Maltese cooking is broad and slightly strange, and eating one main course tells you about a tenth of it.
How it runs
It opens where a Maltese meal always opens: things in the middle of the table. Bigilla, ġbejniet, bread, something from the sea. Then the kitchen moves through the dishes that take time — the braised, the slow-cooked, the ones that were started this morning. It finishes sweet, because a Maltese meal that stops abruptly has gone wrong somewhere.
Set aside the evening. This is not a ninety-minute proposition and it is not meant to be. Tell us about anything you do not eat when you book and the kitchen will work around it.
One main course is a dish. The tasting menu is the argument.
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