* Ho hum
** Oh Mama
*** Mama Mia
**** Big Fat Greek Wedding
***** The Parthenon
Day 1
Paradise Taverna. A nice gentle start to the hols, as is turned out one of the few places to serve veg other than carrots and potatoes.They also spoke some Welsh to us which at least indicated an awareness of a distinction,pretty average ,nice enough***
Day2
Yiannis - Oh dear maybe it was an off night.Lamb from the spit? where was the spit? Arillas? it took over an hour, apparently they were unaccustomed to the demand, they even resorted to the singing waiter trick, some old guy warbling with an accordian ---when the lamb was spat out it was just under luke warm, met some nice people from Pudsey though, food utterly forgetable *
Day 3
Mythica - Ahhh now this is far more like it! and maybe the way to the future, a 21st C Taverna,that doesnt rely on what tourists expect, a clever fusion of old and new,terrefic wine too.
****
Day 4
Little Prince - Seems tired to me and a little bit old fashioned soemhow. It's offering cheap set meals, usually a sign of desperation. Nice enough, but nothing to get too excited about either ***
Day 5
The Olympia.Our desert specialist , Zimmer Jnr thought this the best place, it was a very nice meal, good position, good service ***+
Day 6
The day of the BBQ & Grill at the Rose Garden.Everything was home cooked by Kiki the owner and was brilliant, from the melt in your mouth cheese pasties to the tasty meat balls and delicious Briam.What a shame then that the following week no one went! I felt like going around the pool to dig up interest, but they were the types who either preferred pizza and chips or else wanted to get wrecked, but for sheer lovely home cooking a ****
Day 7
The Olive Press. An odd thing about this place , they had a reserved sign on two tables and no one turned up [ unless it was really late ] the same tables were booked the next night too. Anyway, yet another place that seems to be struggling,I'm not sure if my sardines were whitebait, nice enough and no complaints but no wow factor ***
Day 8
The Nafsika - a windy night , they had to be asked to pull down the protective plastic. I thought this place was a little pretentious. I dont like being served tinned Octupus, and they had one dish where the Maitre D would "Fillay" your fish at your table ! most of the food was good , and yet I cant say I was taken by the place , a bit "Chilly" in more senses than one ***
Day 9 [ bun fight at the OZ Coral ]
Met the two old reprobates, SS' answer to Sid James and Charles Hawtrey - Ton n Don!
But on with the important thing - I think this place too is brilliant - Ozzy Oils - really imaginative fusion of styles , the Shank was meltingly gorgeous ****
Day 10
O Manthos - now this place deserves an honourable mention, it's stuck out on a limb, we were the only customers all night and the food is a tribute to home cooking of Corfiot food.. deserves better****
Day 11
Zorbas
The Blonde's favourite - until thursday - very well presented and fine cooking , a touristy place but very slick, you can set your watch by the dancers, fab deserts, so I'm told
****
Day 12
Sunset - people ignore this one too, very average , I think the wine came from Sarsons **
Day 13 we reserved this day for overall favourite - so went back to .....Zorba's { I preferred Mythica }A nice Kleftico, though I prefer the Cypriot version
and so to the Grande Finale
Beachcomber Bistro
People rave about the sunsets , and boy were they right, it was like a Turner on Acid, the seating/furniture was superb...and the food? brilliant! would not be out of place anywhere, my mains was Perch with real roasties and also roasted in season veg, superb! the cheapest plonk was tremendous , oh , and it had the prettiest waitress in town
*****
Others
We lunched at Waves a few times - very nice and reasonable highly recommended ****
and now I'm going to sound like a snob - We quad biked over the hill to Arillas to a place Rick Stein raved about called Brouclis, the name was in Greek, the food very greek with no concessions , no tourists in there at lunch time but there were half a dozen greeks, try it...taste the difference
Sum up
Where does SS go? some of the places seemed worn out and a bit "going through the motions " food was in most part ok , at times inspired,especially where they trusted themselves rather than relying on the comfort zone of loyal customers, theres probably too much competition in SS, consequently the lowest common denominator affect comes into play where never mind the quality heres the quantity and a full English heart arttack on a plate,personally I think places like Beachcomber,Mythica and Oils are showing the way forward, otherwise........
Keith Myrna and Alex
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