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Zimmer's Dinner's
« on: July 07, 2009, 07:18:42 PM »
Well Tony needs some competition   ;D, I'm aware that I havent described about 10 meals and as soon as I get home - along with my San Stef Newbie [ no,  not Nudie Tony :) ] I shall post them ...tonite we drag our sun addled brain's down to The Sunset Taverna on Main St, today we lunched at Broucilis[sp?] in Arillas - very special taverna - Rick Stein was right, thats all I'll say for now

so far we've done

Paradise
Yiannis
Mythica
Little Prince
Olympia
Rose Garden BBQ
Olive Press
Nafsika
Ozzies
Manthos
Zorba



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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2009, 12:16:14 AM »
And still plenty more to go. :)
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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009, 01:04:15 AM »
Zimmer - the new Mitchelin!!
But which Restaurant will get a Zimmer Star!!  LOL
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2009, 09:33:14 AM »
* 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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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2009, 10:31:59 AM »
Goodness me. I didn't think you had been gone 2 weeks already. Time has flown so fast. Do you think you will go again or recommend SS to anyone? :)
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« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2009, 10:40:15 AM »
Hi Jools - yeah - "time is a jet plane" as his Bobness once sang, I'll write up a full "Newbie" review shortly setting out things possibly - I hope - from a fresh perspective, right now Tesco calls  ;)

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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2009, 11:23:42 AM »
welcome home zimmer.looking foward to the review through a newbies eyes

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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2009, 11:32:47 AM »
Hi Zimmer,

Very interesting read although I have to disagree with your overall summary.

You can find restaurants like Mythica and Ozzy Oils anywhere, particularly Mythica which we found pretentious and dull, it was like eating in a Library

Surely we go to Greece to experience 'Greek' Tavernas rather than places that are trying to copy (usually unsuccessfully) trendy British establishments.

Scala in Kefallonia has been taken over by places like the Mythica most with names more suited to a 1980's New Romantic pop group! I and many others do not want to see this trend develop in SS but in the long run restaurant owners will give people what they want so we will see.

Our favourite Taverna was the Little Prince and yes it has many return customers but doesnt that tell us something?

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« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2009, 03:38:38 PM »
Reasonable point Andy - the way I see it is that people are now very well acquainted with Mousakka and Kleftiko, it's become standard fare, the Greek equivelent of bangers and mash , which lots of people in the UK eat in pubs up and down the country but which they arent passionate about.
Where was the Horta salad? Fasolakia, Bianco and Corfu's most famous dish, Bourtheto? this is not being pretentious it's being true to your heritage rather than merely serving up the expected, if you want authentic Greek food it seems you need toi get out to the less commercialised places like Kamani,AG Stef NE,at least those places like Mythica are giving the new a bash rather than staying in the tourist comfort zone

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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2009, 03:45:42 PM »
it goes to prove we all like different thing and look at san stef in different ways life would be boring if we all thought the same also if we all liked the same place we would never get in

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« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2009, 04:21:51 PM »
Its still nice to try the new places as you never know what you might be missing as well.
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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2009, 06:39:50 PM »
 Thanks for your report Zimmer. As I often eat alone (Billy no mates haha) one way I make a choice is the banter that I have with them. For this reason Olympia and Ozzy Oils come tops for me! Luckily the food is great too!!!! :)
 Will definitely try Beachcomber next time. I know the food is great there but I'll have to check out "the prettiest waitress in town". Big thanks for that info Zimmer haha!
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« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2009, 06:53:13 PM »
 we never got to try olympia but i think we will have to next time if the puds are good will have to we have our sons girlfriends dad round today for a meal looking like i may need a new hat so have made a peach pavlova and a whiskey bread and butter pudding so theres the diet gone up the shoot

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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2009, 07:07:35 PM »
Sounds lovely Zoe.
Hendrix as you have found out you are never alone in SS.
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Re: Zimmer's Dinner's
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2009, 08:42:41 PM »
Great review Zimmer :)
brings back memories of fab food in San Stef ! and Arillas too, love them both
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