As part of our trip in Malta, we booked a few Michelin restaurants, one of them was Medina. We were very much looking forward to it as the menu sounded very tasty.

The service was a bit awkward. We ordered a few starters and mains to share. We thought they would bring dishes in the order of food temperature (cold then hot dishes). However, they actually brought all the dishes at the same time. I was bewildered when he brought them all. We ended up eating the hot ones and leave the cold ones (which we should have started with). In addition, many items were missing of the menu such a s the red prawns.

The food quality was the most shocking bit of our lunch. i mean we booked this place because we thought we were going to eat in a place referred by the Michelin guide. In addition, many things such as the red prawns were not in the menu. The fish tartar literally had whole anchovies in it and in a a very high quantity, I genuinely felt this was an anchovy tartar but the waiter confirmed it was a sea bream tartar which I never manage to taste. The falafel were a an actual crumble of ground chickpeas and the humus was thick, bland and tasteless. The Ravioli sauce had an insane amount of butter and bland as well with no flavours. finally, the frito misto was fine with no extra ordinary flavours but served with harissa from a supermarket jar. I am extremely disappointed not with the restaurant but with the Michelin guide who misled us. This place should never be part of the michelin guide. Honestly one of the worse disappointing food experiments i have had.

The place is nice though in the middle of the Medina.

I will email the michelin guide separately regarding the above.

Please do not take this in a bad way but this was a genuine feedback. I hope you will find a way to improve but you definitely should not be in the Michelin guide.