Spinola Bay is the postcard — the luzzus, the water, the row of tables looking at both. It is genuinely beautiful, and the restaurants directly on it are priced accordingly.
Walk two minutes inland and the economics change completely.
We are on Triq Paceville, a short walk up from the bay and around the corner from the Vivaldi. No sea view — that is the trade, and it is why the rabbit costs what it costs. What you get instead is a kitchen cooking Maltese and Gozitan food the way it is cooked at home, in a room mostly full of people who live here.
Have the view with a coffee by the water. Have dinner where the cooking is.
You are paying for the water or you are paying for the kitchen. Rarely both.
Open every day, from a quarter to noon until a quarter to midnight.
