This would be the perfect place for any festive occasion, fabulous food, great wine, tasteful cocktails and amazingly professional personnel!

Allow me to share the gourmet dishes I enjoyed the previous weekend. For starters I had their Thai Style Dim Sums, and as you all know Dim Sums can be a bit ‘tricky’ but believe me the Dim Sums I had was great with a nice fillings of steamed pork, chicken and steamed prawn dumplings!

For main course I had the Sesame Crusted Beef Medallions on a layer of crispy bean sprouts which I must say was the best dish I had so far this year(2008). It was just perfect, all you readers out there need to try it out!

And as for the drinks we shared a bottle of Rose d’Anjou which is a lighter rose wine which was perfect for this kind of ‘heavy’ food. After a couple of quick B52 shots we went out to an unforgettable night in the lovely Paceville in Malta for our dearest friend Robins farewell party.

Thanks, that’s all for me this week!

East meets West -Zoltan S

Thursday evening myself, Carlos, Lisa and our possibly new guest blogger Malsov met up a Pepinos in Spinola for some good food and brainstorming about future prospects for this blog! Unfortunately Zoltan couldn’t come and contribute with his wine expertise.

Pepino’s has a reputation of excellent beef filet as well as attracting the celebrities. Of course we had to try the classic beef fillet with a few bottles of Merlot.

Beef filet with pepper sauce – €15.85
Bottle of Merlot from Chile – €14.50

As a true meat lover there no such thing as ordering your meat medium or well done. Good beef shall be eaten close to rare, full stop.

So with slight disappointment I hear Lisa and Carlos asking for well done… with bigger disappointment we get three beefs all cooked well done/medium. I don’t like it.

Far too into our discussion about how to develop or blog we can’t be bothered about asking for a new piece of meat.

All in all our visit to Peppino’s get’s the thumbs up – it’s a friendly atmosphere with classic Italian settings.

So what’s the future for the lunch? Well, if you can read and understand our meeting minutes below please tell us, cuz we don’t understand nor remember anything from it…

Link to Peppino’s website: http://www.peppinosmalta.com/

Since I eat lunch more or less everyday at “Star” I could easily fill up the whole blog with just Club sandwich/ftira’s Yes, because that’s the only thing I eat for lunch.

Must mean that it’s good or I’ve a bad selection of choice? As previously written about Star, it’s blends a good atmosphere with great easy lunch food. Exactly what the strand needs more of.

I strongly suggest:Club ftira with some extra fried potatoes wedges as side order together with a healthy peach juice.

This is yours for around a fiver!

Will it be pagoda value-meal take-away tonight?

First of I would like to present myself – Zoltan, I will be your guest blogger here at “The Lunch”.
If everything goes as planned I will be sharing some of my experiences with you all once a week.

My first contribution to this blog will be from The Dubliner;
On Saturday we went to the pub to watch the game, and to carb up for the long night ahead of us I tried the lasagna.
I must say my choice was great, the lasagna I had was really tasteful, with a topping of cocktail tomatoes, chives and extra parmigiano this 7 Euro dish gets 3,5 stars of 5 possible.
The price combined with the taste, a cold lager and some great company of course increased the experience.

That’s all for now and you will hear from me again next Monday.

// Zoltan

Walking down South Street in Valletta you’ll find Maestro E’ Fresco on your right hand side.

This Italian style wine bar is well worth a visit. Valletta’s nightlife offers a cultured atmosphere – a nice break away from the busy and hectic life in Sliema.

Try one of there good baguettes or salad’s, but be aware it’s not a dinner kitchen.

Glass of foreign wine – €3.15
Wraps/baguettes – € 4.55

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