Restaurant Reviews: Nicosia

Kuzuba may be what many fusion restaurants aspire to be when they grow up: dining without gimmicks or pomposity, but with just a sprinkle of good-natured pretentiousness. Those airs may ...

My faithful dining companion and I decided to indulge in pub grub, partly because Lent is approaching with many options set to be taken off the table. There is a ...

My faithful dining companion and I decided to have dinner at a taverna – specifically, Pais Lysiotiki Souvla. Located in a beautiful old house in Ayios Omologites, the restaurant has been ...

It’s a beautiful winter day. The sun is out under a cloudless sky, yet a chilly wind cuts through it all. The season has truly turned. And what better ...

If I had the time and word-count limits didn’t exist, I’d tell you how this restaurant review veered into film-noir territory. I’d tell you how I combed ...

Operating since 1969, and since 1989 in its current location, Jack’s Pizza House is arguably the oldest pizzeria in Nicosia. Yes, the Jack’s. The mythical, legendary pizzeria that seems to ...

Maybe you’ve dined at places so perfectly run they feel like a well-oiled machine. Maybe you’ve also eaten at spots that seem to have launched after watching a 15...

This time around, my faithful dining companion and I decided to try a well-established joint that thrives on a clever illusion: dining in as if it were the upper echelons ...

Sometimes, even if that “sometimes” is peak summer, you just get a craving for classic bar and grill – the deliberate duality of an establishment focused on serving alcohol (that’s ...

In my eagerness to explore the novel, the obscure, the ethnic I’d somehow overlooked the most obvious choice: the local taverna. You know, places that are meant to be ...

I’m thinking of writing a somewhat negative review for this place, I tell my faithful dining companion days after we’ve had dinner at Guido and the Goose. “Is ...

It’s Lent, and I’m fasting, so I decided to visit a fully vegan restaurant instead of settling for a traditional eatery where plant-based options are an afterthought. Despite ...

We decided to visit a restaurant that has been a fixture in Nicosia’s dining scene since at least the 90s that is widely regarded as a pillar of Levantine ...

A long-standing fixture of Nicosia’s dining scene, India India is situated at a busy traffic intersection and it is hard to miss – not least because it has been there ...

Buenos diaaaass! And the energy for the day ahead has just changed. Rincon Latino is just that: a Latin Corner tucked away in central Nicosia, where Roberto Nicolas Aquino serves ...

By George Demetriades Nestled in the heart of Nicosia, on evergreen Pindarou, Beba is a restaurant that seems to have mastered the delicate art of being trendy without trying too ...

This wasn’t the first place I intended to write about after moving to the area a couple of months ago. That spot will have its moment soon, but after ...

Usually, we’re all about the best dining spots in Cyprus. But how does that take into account the thousands with an interest in Cyprus across the globe? After all, ...

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I was a student again. You know, out most nights, happy with a few beers and a burger, not too many responsibilities, at least compared ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nicosia’s food scene is growing. Slowly and perhaps rather unilaterally – most new restaurants, in fact, still pander to ...

Capturing the essence of a meal through words is more often than not like trying to bottle lightning. It’s not just about the food on the plate. It’s ...

Nicosia is not your usual European capital. You can’t call it beautiful, though it’s not exactly ugly. It’s not (yet?) a modern city, but it is neither ...

The very idea we have of restaurants has changed profoundly and perhaps irreversibly in recent years. We used to go out to eat, now we mostly stay in and order. ...

When it comes to a new restaurant, the anticipation and the expectations alone are worth at least half the experience. The more I wait to try a place out, the ...