Definitely a new regular haunt

Ta’ Ċelita1, Sir Harry Luke StreetMġarrTel: 2157 3705

Food: 8/10Service: 7/10Ambience: 7/10Value: 8/10Overall: 7.5/10

I never have the urge to seek out a Maltese restaurant. If I want something like ross il-forn or braġioli, I visit my mother’s house or make it myself. Admittedly, it tends to be more the former than the latter, but either way, I don’t really look for a restaurant that specialises in local cuisine. That is, unless I have family visiting from whatever foreign country they inhabit.

This realisation dawned on me very recently, brought about by the fact that my eating habits at home do tend to be very local in a sense. I always have a loaf of Maltese bread available for my breakfast, which consists of ġbejniet smeared across a couple of warm slices. If I see a Maltese sausage, I will buy one (and yes, I will eat it raw) and I add kunserva to anything that can conceivably have kunserva added to it.

I live for good home cooking but I never tend to seek it out when it comes to outside catering. This, of course, is a foible of my own making. Truth be told, I could probably eat imqarrun every day for a solid week and still crave more as it is a weakness of mine... one of...