Il Pirata Restaurant — Restaurant in Saint Julian's

Went to dinner there in a group. The restaurant is situated on the site of a former football club hence the trophies on shelves in the restaurant, or so the waiter told us. A few caricature type drawings on the wall of famous people especially footballers. Otherwise quite a plain restaurant. Service was great and so was the food. Pizza to start with some fried balls of goats cheese all of which were very tasty. There was also a pasta - tomato based ragunwoth cream - I would have preferred it sans cream for the full tomato flavour but that's just my preference. Rigatoni was cooked al dente which I like, stuffed with tasty Maltese sausage. Main was sea bass fillet cooked perfectly, served with broccoli and masked potato. Dessert was typical Maltese dates wrapped in a pastry shell - tasty. The mini conoli was ok - not much flavour to them except for the pistachio crust. All in all...

After seeing multiple good reviews, finally decided to give it a try, and it definitely exceeded my expectations! We were a table of six and although there were several other big tables, the service was efficient and the waiters attended to our requests with a smile. The food was cooked to perfection - we ordered calamari and octopus for starters, then for the main course we had their famous beef tagliata (1kg to share), and ended the night with a sweet taste of their freshly prepared imqaret and mini doughnuts. They also offered us complimentary tartlets and liquor on the house. Very satisfied, will...

Due to a mess-up with our hotel we were allowed to eat for free at the Il Pirata for dinner. At first we were apprehensive that the menu was going to be limited or the food quality bad, but we were gladly mistaken.

Il Pirata was an excellent restaurant, the manager/owner was there every night to talk with the customers and lend a hand when needed, the staff were friendly, the environment good and most importantly the food was excellent.

Every day the specials changed and we never felt limited or disappointed by the food and would strongly advise the fillet steak or salmon as being...