Hammett's Gastro Bar — Restaurant in Sliema

Ordered: two lunch "quickies": miso soups, an entrée (sesame chicken and vegan curry), and desserts (chocolate sorbet and spicy mango sorbet), two classic mojitos(happy hour special), and one bottle of water (not intentionally ordered)

The Food: The miso soup was delectable and highly recommended, just the right temperature for a hot day

The vegan curry was also very good, can recommend.

The sesame chicken was tasty, but for a higher end restaurant I expect something a bit better. It was about as tasty as I'd get at any lower quality Asian restaurant.

The chocolate sorbet was very good. The spicy mango sorbet was...interesting. I'm sure it's something bigger foodies than I enjoy. For me, I'm not sure I quite by the more "savory" style dessert. It's definitely mango-forward and quite spicy. Fun to try, wouldn't order it again.

Drinks: Good, expensive but half price for happy hour. Quite watered down, but who wants more than that at noon?

The water: we were asked the typical question, "Sparkling or still?". We said "still" as we prefer, expecting a pitcher of water. Instead we got a "special brand" of still water that cost us 5 bucks and tasted no better than the exact same water for a 1/10th of the price at the supermarket.

I was annoyed to get charged for water, and doubly annoyed that it wasn't even special water!

Service: aside from the aforementioned water grift, the service was very good. Very friendly and accommodating for a family.

Overall: 3 stars. Service was great, food was varying in quality, and drinks were fine. Water was 5 euros...

Amazing concept of a gastro-pub-kind of restaurant.

Very good service. CHARMING host/waiter He helped me with some decisions as usual, I have some difficulties in deciding what to order because I want to order more than what I can eat.

I ordered the Sweet potatoes baos, and the sucking pork. Delicious, excellent presentation, and perfect portions to eat both of them.

I might visit them during this week!

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Of course I went back to this amazing place

I was curious about the other two options that the charming waiter suggested to me, and I had to try them

This time, I tried the aubergine wontons and the duck with some rice and a Spanish wine giving honours to my ancestors.

I loved the aubergine wontons, you will never imagine that aubergine can be right in there. Plus the sauce they come with is delicious, creamy and it adds some slickness to this dish.

…second of “dishes”, the Duck was so tender, well cooked, full of flavour, the smell was Sublime!!! In combination with the rice and, some soy sauce (and the rest of the aubergine wantons’ dressing) it was a perfect match!

The environment was amazing, the music perfect, the service…admirable. Want to come Back and hope This Place lasts for ever!

Well done! Keep...

We like this restaurant for breakfast, so we decided to went for dinner.

Surprisingly they had happy hour even on the weekend, quite mane drinks you get 2 for the price of one. I took Mohito and did not like it, I like it much more minty (when there are loads of fresh mint) and more flavorful, here I just tasted sour.

Here is food that we got:

Fried calamari- we liked it a lot, not overly salty as in many other places, very tender and tasteful.

Thai beef salad - my husband loved it, especially the dressing, but it would be great to have more meat; to me it was too spicy (but I do not eat spicy food at all)

Hot stone rice - to me I could not eat a bit, due to spiciness, but my husband took it mainly for himself because he likes spicy food. He really enjoyed the dish!

Egg fried rice - it was ok, o just wish there would be more fried vegetables to give it more flavor and juiciness!

In general I give 4 out 5 for the food.

The service was good!

It gets easily crowded, if you want table outside better to come early! Also many people come for the drinks, so it...