Casual or formal, day or night, for drinks, snacks or meals, the St. George Hotel gives you a wide choice of fine restaurants and bars to suit your mood.
Café Lara
It is open for breakfast from 07:00 hrs to 10:00 hrs and for Table d’ Hotel. Lunch and A la Carte menu from 12:30 hrs to 14:30 hrs during the winter period.
BREAKFAST:
An exciting buffet with Continental breakfast to start your day is included in your terms of stay. Buffet breakfast opens from 07:00 hrs until 10:00hrs.
Continental Breakfast is also available from Room Service between 07:00 – 10:00 hrs. Please complete the breakfast order form and hang it outside your door any time before 03:00hrs.
Sunset Grill Restaurant
The Sunset Grill Restaurant is St. George's Sunset pool & sea -side lunch restaurant, and is the perfect setting for casual al fresco lunch.
Sunset has been recently added and now features an open show kitchen with live cooking using a grill. The emphasis is on light Mediterranean cuisine, pastas, meat grills and freshly caught fish from the sea, e.g. grilled swordfish with roasted tomato and local olive ragout.
Lunch à la carte menus and kids meals are available, as well as light snacks. Please note that Sunset is an outdoor restaurant and is only open during the day weather-permitting.
Geronissos Tavern
Open in Summer for lunch from 12:30 to 14:30 hrs
"The amazing mezze"
It might be said that the multi course, multi dish feast called Cyprus MEZZE (pronounced mezz-ay) is this country’s national meal. For newcomers, it is a never-ending stream of dishes small, medium & large, which provide unique selection of dips, salads, and meat, fish and vegetable dishes. And like the people who come back here year after year, you will probably develop a Passion for Mezze.
Cyprus mezze is not just a meal to tax your capacity; it is virtually a guide to our food. You sit with your Cyprus aperitif – a beer, an Ouzo, a Brandy Sour or a glass of our lovely new wines – and your mezze begins. Firstly there will be freshly baked wholesome bread with a “Village Salad” (usually containing tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, cabbage, onion, black olives, green peppers topped with feta cheese and dressed with olive oil), and lovely little dishes to dip your fresh bread in. These may include tahini (sesame seed paste), homous (tahini with chick peas, garlic and oil), taramosalata (cod roe pasta), tsatsiki (yogurt with cucumber, herbs and garlic), as well as parsley or cheese based delights.
Then comes the restaurant’s selection of little warm plates, This may include: stuffed vine leaves; cooked green beans with vegetables; black-eye beans with spinach, giant beans, lentils, octopus, mushrooms, eggs cooked with courgettes, tomatoes or mushrooms; cheese and spinach pies and other pastries; salted fish; grilled smoked loin of pork with Halloumi cheese; cracked green olives; beetroot with Skordalia (garlic sauce), Loukanika (Cyprus’s own spiced red-wine soaked sausage) and specialties of the house.
At this point you will almost certainly be feeling replete. Even old hands at the Mezze Table fall in to the trap of starting at a gallop, including themselves in all these delicious starters with lots of good fresh bread. But the motto is, “Pace yourself, because there is a lot more to come!”
Now we are arriving at the point of serious eating. For here are dishes like chunks of fresh grilled liver, often in spicy, sometimes peppery sauce; Stifado (beef or rabit cooked in wine with lots of onions); Keftedes (succulent deep fried meatballs) and Sheftalia (meanced meat, barbecued sausage); Souvlakia (little kebabs of pork and chicken); Kleftiko (slow roasted lamb or kid); Souvla (chunky kebabs of pork, lamb or kid).
You may get all of these but you will certainly have a generous variety, at which point you may think the kitchen has now done its stuff – but there will almost certainly be a finale of grilled lamb chops and/or chicken. And naturally, there will be the Cyprus potato. Some taverns will offer fried potatoes, but many are turning to delicious traditional recipe: small, washed but unpeeled potatoes deep fried, and then tossed in sesame seeds and a little red wine.
For those able to contemplate more, the meal concludes with fresh fruit, the unique “Gliko” (fruits, like oranges, apricots, cherries, plums, or whole green walnuts preserved in syrup) and local cakes or pastries, many of which are special to the region or village. Cypriots often drink beer and the local brandy “Koniaki” with their Mezze, but are now turning more and more to wine, which is that we recommend. There are now many new wines, from winemakers large and small, with some very good ones in Paphos district. As a general rule, you will probably enjoy the youngest wines best – their freshness and fruitiness will go well with your Mezze.
As well as the general Mezze described above, there are many restaurants specializing in fish Mezze and those that will happily provide many vegetarian dishes. A non-meat eater, in fact, will find plenty to eat in the standard Mezze, but taverns, especially if asked in advance, are almost always happy to give you a Mezze with less meat and more vegetable dishes if you wish.
So, your first Mezze will give you an array of the dishes in Cyprus, ten, twenty or even more. You will decide which dishes you like, and thereafter you can make up a meal, small or large of your own choice. You can also make a good Mezze at home, and any one of the paper-back books mentioned below (all in English) will tell you how to do this.
Kionos Restaurant
The Kionos Restaurant specialises in Buffet Dinners based on locally infused Mediterranean cuisine and fresh seasonal choices with daily changing buffet menus. Sample dishes include locally inspired salads, pastas and exquisite carved meats with herbs, rich crispy bread and live show cooking with various theme’s from continental Europe all the way to Asia. A la Carte dinners are also available here. Children's menus are also available, and buffet meals can be taken on the outdoor terrace, weather permitting. It is open for dinner, both buffet service and a la Carte 19:00 to 22:00 hrs. With its pleasant ambience, it is the ideal place for romantic dining.
Arcadia Lounge
Located under the atrium and extending onto the terrace, is the place to enjoy cocktails, coffee or tea, home made pastries and ice cream. Open from 09:00 hrs until 24:00 hrs.
Avakas Cocktail Bar
Open from 18:00hrs until the early hours. Located on the Ground floor opposite the Reception Desk, this is the perfect venue for a chat and a delightful cocktail with background music or live music.
Aeolos Pool Bar
Located next to the swimming pool and almost on the beach, is open from 10:00 hrs until sunset, during the Summer period. Long cool drinks, freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, light snacks and desserts are served.
Yialos Beach Bar
Located by the beach with panoramic view of the sea. It is open from 10:00 hrs until midnight. It offers a wide range of cool drinks and freshly squeezed juices and Kebabs.
Premier Club
Located on Reception Level behind the main elevators. See our Events Programme for details of shows. This is the place to enjoy our shows with surround sound and professional stage lights! |
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