Valletta - Post Report Question and Answers
What typical restaurants, food delivery services, and/or takeout options are popular among expatriates?
There is a a wide variety of restaurants, food delivery, and take-out available in Malta. Dining outdoors is a common pastime for the Maltese and there are many opportunities to do so throughout the country and even along the water. - May 2023
Great food. Mainly Italian based with a Maltese twist on things. Most food is Mediterranean style, you can buy fish pretty much straight out of the ocean. There is still Chinese/Indian food available to mix it up. No shortage of great restaurants to try. - Oct 2018
So restaurants and going out to eat in Malta is interesting. You will not get an amazing meal here. You'll get some very good meals and you'll learn which restaurants are consistently good quality. Others will be absolutely hit or miss. Good one time, complete garbage the next and they won't care because it's a tourist economy and you look like a foreigner and you probably won't be back. Plus, money is not a motivating factor in Malta. More on that later. But, there are numerous restaurants. Lots of Italian/seafood, pizza, hamburgers, a couple decent Chinese places (not great ones), a couple good Indian restaurants, good sushi, steak places (none are very good, but a few are decent) and your basic continental European fare. And, there are Maltese restaurants (rabbit, maybe horse at a few places, and other junk). The Maltese go for quantity over quality. They think Americans eat big portions but here they got with "starters" then the "main" and dessert plus a ton of bread before the starters even come. There are several fast food franchises. Subway, McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut. Subway is decent. McDonald's is OK (we don't care for McDonald's in Europe, just tastes different), Burger King is better when they don't completely overcook the burgers which they tend to do (Maltese go for well done and they don't tend to even ask when you order a burger at a regular restaurant), KFC is good but we always leave hungry and it's way more expensive than the US and Pizza Hut is pretty good. - Sep 2016
A handful of American fast food, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Subway. Fast food is a fairly new concept here and not hugely popular except in tourist areas. There are lots of restaurants, but Maltese are not known for their cuisine like their neighboring countries. Eating out is fairly expensive. - Jan 2014
Bland like brits. - Feb 2010
KFC, McD, Pizza Hut, BK, Wagamama are available for fast food at elevated Euro prices. Fine dining is hard, if not impossible to come by, a limited selection of upscales joints will suffice - albeit at relatively high prices. Lots of awful tourist traps that are deceptively housed in beautiful old stone venues.. - Feb 2010
McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Hard Rock from the U.S. and many good Maltese ones, including Fusion Four in Valletta, Two-and-a-Half Lemons in Birgu, Taste in Sliema, Paparazzi in St Julians, Ta Marija in Mosta (with folk show), and many in Paceville. - Jul 2009
