Mona Farrugia is shocked at the prices she finds at La Vela. Then she goes to the loo...

Mona Farrugia wonders about smiling in restaurants but has no doubt that Sciacca's Marvin is the most innovative chef in Malta

Some restaurants provide food, others ambience. Malta restaurant stalwart Tarragon provides familiarity with a huge dollop of style. Mona Farrugia visits.

The service situation in Maltese restaurants is dire and Mona Farrugia simply cannot put up with it any longer.

Ten years of restaurant criticism can take their toll even on hardened stalwart Mona Farrugia. One restaurant keeps her returning, over and over: Tal-Familja.

A lack of choice, indifferent service, surly management and some truly dirty clams: Mona Farrugia fails to be impressed by Cockney's.

The Unexpected Traveller chills out with his Soul Soother at this Oslo eatery.

There are moments when restaurant critics cease to be so and just become human beings. Sitting at the Mgarr ix-Xini Kiosk and stuffing her face with seafood, Mona's Meals experiences...

Mona Farrugia lauds the appearance of a wonderful fish restaurant in the south of the Island.

Marsaxlokk was once known for being Malta's fishing village in the south. Most of its inhabitants were fishing people. These days it's packed with restaurants, the staff of which have...

Rew Rew is a grotty, funny-looking restaurant placed in a picturesque bay under the Ta' Cenc cliffs. It's the only thing of its kind anywhere on Malta and Gozo, and...

Overpriced, under-serviced yet still the best lunch by the beach in Gozo: Original 2007 review

Ix-Xlukkajr may have a surfeit of fish on offer and a charming front of house, yet if the prawn are off, they're just off, Mona's Meals and her companions insist.

If it's chiconomics you want, then now is the time for them: ditch the men from the decision-making process and let's get the economy moving again. Oh, and there's a...

Is it a bird, is it a plane or is it a restaurant? Mona finds a highly sought-after chef, a half-finished restaurant and much scope for training at Lo Spago