Turkuaz; St. Julians, Malta - Sliema - TravBuddy

Turkuaz is the only Turkish restaurant in Malta ...I don't know if this has anything to do with The Great Siege, but...anyhow...

I'm a fan of Med and Middle Eastern food, so I was happy to try this place out. We made reservations at 2000 hours. When we walked in we were the only ones there ...and remained the only ones until about 2130 hours! Nice and romantic for us, but I felt bad for the owners.

The important bit: the food. WONDERFUL. The food was outstanding. I ordered a starter of hummus, and Geoff ordered a 'hot' mixture (calamari and some other fried goodies) ..both were wonderful. Almost forgot...we were started with fresh baked bread and homemade yogurt that were ...to die for!! I even joked to Geoff that I was going to take the leftover bread home in my purse. He begged me not to, I laughed internally as I realized I was turning into my mother, and when Geoff looked away ..into the purse it went. Hey! We were the only ones there!

For the main: we both ordered the kebab. I ordered the plate and Geoff ordered the wrapped version. Both were outstanding. My lamb kebab meat was served over chunks of their bread (heaven) with a tomato sauce over the bread. The bread soaked up the juice from the lamb and the tomato sauce and it was out of this world! It was accompanied by their yogurt (yumm, again), couscous, potato, grilled tomato ....it was so wonderful.

I would have loved dessert, but not a bit more was going to be stuffed into me. We asked for Turkish coffee at the end, but they don't offer it. Huh? So, we got espressos. Yummy. Happy again.

We talked about going back, but there are just too many other places I wanted to try. Hey, I'm a minor league foodie.

GO! to Turkuaz.