No. 01 · Old town
7 St. Georges Tavern
No menu. You sit down and dishes keep arriving — foraged greens, whatever the garden gave up that morning, their own wine. One sitting a night, so book.
Top list · Top 10
Top 10 restaurants in Paphos
Where we actually eat when we are down west: two in the old town worth booking a week ahead, a steakhouse, and a village taverna that will defeat you.
Paphos eats better than its seafront suggests. Almost everything worth the evening is a street back from it, in the old town, or fifteen minutes inland.
No. 02 · Old town
Laona
A family taverna down a side street, cooking what a Cypriot household cooks. Lunch, mostly workers, and the best value in the city.
No. 03 · Cap St Georges
Phos
The fine dining option, on a cliff above the sea. Cypriot ingredients, modern technique, a menu that moves with the season.
No. 04 · Poseidonos Avenue
The Lodge
Charcoal-grilled, dry-aged steak, South African hands. The one to know when nobody wants another meze.
No. 05 · Minthis Resort
Amaracus
Twenty minutes inland and worth the drive for the terrace alone. Moussaka, taramas, whole snapper.
No. 06 · Paphos
Kingfisher Taverna
Fish, simply. Whatever came in that day, grilled, without a sauce to hide behind.
No. 07 · Above the town
Melitzia Taverna
A hillside terrace, the whole of Paphos underneath it and the sun going down behind. Meze, kleftiko, souvla.
No. 08 · Peyia village
Peyia Tavern
Village prices, village portions. Order the kleftiko and do not order a starter.
No. 09 · Paphos
Dias Zeus
Greek and Mediterranean, meze and fresh fish, as full of locals as of visitors.
No. 10 · Paphos
Passione
A wine bar that feeds you properly. Come for the list, stay for the small plates.
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