Georgia's AVLI Tavern — Restaurant in Paralimni

DO NOT GO TO EAT HERE!!

Me my husband and my two daughters went to this disgusting restaurant i already got a bad feeling when i entered the so called restaurant. My husband and my oldest daughter got there food ( they ordered bread and the meat platter ) it stank i saw my daughter take a chicken and looked at it with a digusted concerned look beacuse it stank horibble. The sausages also were horrible my husband cut one over and it wasnt even cooked all the way,there was little weird black and brown peices in it. None of us were brave enough to eat it. My food came in and it was the wrong order ( i ordered a steak with baked potatoes and a salad i got a steak with fries and carrots and bland rice with no seasoning ) I ate one carrot and it tasted OK but my husband showed me that the carrots were leaking a weird yellow substance and some of them where even rotten.

I didnt taste the rice it looked weird and bland. My steak was oiled up and had way too much seasoning.we all tasted the fries and it was hard and just a potato .

I said it was the wrong order and he took my food away ( i heard another person ordered the same thing as me and they got the same thing too. ) he then came back with the same plate of food it 5 minutes later. After a bit i FINALLY GOT MY ORDER but it was still bad and i noticed that my salad was rotten. My baked potato looked like it was thrown into a microwave the moment i said my order was wrong. My youngest daughter got a strawberry milkshake but she gets a warm milkshake that didnt taste like strawberries it tasted like rotten milk. The food was so bad i even saw cats eating peoples food ( the people gave them it ) beacuse people couldnt eat it themselves. The kids playground area looked liked a cat had barfed on it like everything was almost green and brown liked it handt been cleaned in years. And after all that my husband said to them that the food was horrible and he SAID THAT HE DIDNT UNDERSTAND? I- we left immediately. I dont reccoment this so called restaurant ( how is it...

After seeing this restaurant full each night my partner and I thought we would try it out.

We decided to go after a trip for an early meal so the restaurant was not busy. The family (of the owner of the place) were sat at a table and we only realised after we started trying to ask staff for assistance. They also told us to sit at the only table not having any cutlery lidout. Bearing in mind no one was in the restaurant yet.

The first issue was with my drink. I orded a pint of beer, sounds simple however the beer was very much under the line making it not a pint and with too huch head. I asked if they could top it up (as I would do in any uk pub/restaurant) but the waiter declined staying it was ok. They only topped it up after I went into the restaurant bar and took the beer and asked them again.

The next issue was with our food order. I orded the meatballs and my partner orded the baby squid, on the menu it said both comes with backed potatoes and salad. When the meal arrives there were chips. I asked the owner about it as he said quite rudely, "you did not specify which one you wanted." We had no idea as the menu said backed potatoes only and when he took our order he never said there was a choice. And my partner clarified it was salad and backed potatoes before confirming our order and we were told yes.

Overall the service was poor, the food was nothing special and we never got an apology for anything they did wrong.

The people who came and sat at the table behind us had a stranged interaction too. They asked for a menu but they were denied and told they could only have a set menu. They were told the drinks they could have even though on the menu there were many more choices. We saw one of the men go into the restaurant and ask for menus. When he came back he told his table they said they could only have the set menu as they did not have time to do all the food.

I would 100% not recommend going to...

A Complete Catastrophe — Avoid at All Costs

Good grief, what a disaster.

My partner and I feel completely robbed. Admittedly, we didn’t check the reviews beforehand — we were hungry, and from the outside, the place looked passable. Big mistake.

We ordered the meat meze. It started badly and somehow kept getting worse. The salad arrived first: undressed, flavourless, and lifeless — just a bowl of chopped odds and ends with a sad chunk of feta that looked like it was snapped off the block and lobbed on as an afterthought.

Chips and halloumi were fine, but unremarkable — we've had far better elsewhere during our trip. The dips, ironically, were probably store-bought… which made them the most enjoyable part of the meal.

Then came what I can only describe as a witches’ cauldron of mystery meat, bubbling in oil. Two bowls of it. The contents were overcooked, strangely coloured, and mostly fat. One seemed to be chicken and potatoes — the chicken was burnt, the potatoes were practically raw. The moussaka? Just another oily mess.

Finally, the skewers arrived. Pork and chicken. Both somehow managed to be drier than the Sahara. Genuinely some of the driest food I’ve ever put in my mouth.

I’m writing this while still in the restaurant, feeling queasy. Most of the food has gone untouched, and I’m struggling to justify paying the €40 this “meal” cost. We will not be returning, and I would urge others to avoid it entirely.

Update: I now continue this review from the public toilets at Fig Tree Bay, where my body has made the (frankly understandable) decision to violently evacuate its contents...