Wigi's Kitchen — Restaurant in Saint Julian's

For all the hype created, and good reviews written, this place actually delivers on many fronts. It deserves a 3,5 star rating but has some way to go for a perfect score. The interior is small, cozy, and with a great view of the bay if you get a table by the large windows overlooking it. The staff is nice, friendly, and attentive. The small size of the restaurant adds to the ambience they wish to create and they do this beautifully. It is, for example, a great, intimate, restaurant to bring a date. Where Wigi's Kitchen fails is in the food served on your plate. On paper (read: on the menu) they present more innovative dishes than your other typical restaurants in the same price range on Malta but the result on your plate does not live up to it. They serve good food, but you expect more. It ends up being the usual Mediterranean food prepared well that you can find at two dozen other restaurants within a short taxi ride away. A rather more alarming shortcoming is the frankly horrible bearnaise sauce they serve with the meat. It is not a sauce but rather a lukewarm mayonnaise style concoction that has an overpowering taste of butter. Another minus is the poor selection of whiskies, gins, cognacs, etc. available. The most exciting thing on offer is Laphroaig, Tanquery, and Remy Martin. Cocktails are not even available (unless you consider a gin and tonic a cocktail). A fine, cozy, decently priced restaurant but you just wish they would be more brave. More creative. Step out of that comfort zone that so many similar restaurants on Malta permanently snooze in. And they need to fix that unholy abomination they call bearnaise sauce. If you go; the mussels are great as a starter. Avoid the cured salmon. The lamb and fish is always a safe bet as a main course. They tend to undercook the meat so ask for medium if you prefer medium-rare, well-done if you...

Top recommended place to visit …. I had the most intimate and beautiful dining experience. The choices of steak and fish were brought out on a platter with a talk through to help make a choice… we were given complimentary bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar… (one of which could only be found at this restaurant) very rich consistency. It was plated for us as suggestion on how to try the combination with a sprinkle of rock salt …. Beautiful… I had the fish soup to start and the Argentinian grass fed ribeye… my knife sliced through this like butter … excellent cook on the steak … what topped the experience was Wes taking the time to speak with every guests hence there are only about 12 tables you could embrace the food and atmosphere…I was seated at the window and was so in love with the fact that Wes took time to walk his elderly guests down the stairs safely and catch their taxi …. I don’t know when last I’ve witnessed anything like this. I could not stop talking about this experience - Wes shared a limoncello with me after we discovered our birthdays were...

Great little restaurant, only 12 tables. We were made to feel very welcome as soon as we walked through the door. The team are very professional and run a slick operation, the best service I’ve seen in Malta. Service was very smooth, an example was my partner dropped a fork on the floor, the waiter serving us reassured us and instantly picked it up, gave it to another waiter to take it away, meanwhile a third waiter had already brought a replacement, gave it to the first who put it in position, all in less than 5 seconds! We had a lovely chateaubriand which was perfectly cooked. Only two tiny letdowns, firstly the vegetable portion size seemed tiny, especially so compared to the enormous size of the steak, and the dessert which was the strawberry and meringue and seemed to have little fruit but was ok. Overall well done guys, and a lovely eating experience. Well...