Oh boy, I think this was my toughest Michelin star experience (been to 8 previously). Honestly, not even sure how they got a Michelin star in the first place.

Entering and getting a table was fine the hostess was friendly and we had our pick of a table. The tables outside are in the alleyway that marks the entrance to the restaurant. Not foreign to Malta but they don’t have the same atmosphere of the restaurant.

We sat inside at a two person table that had a wobble strong enough to spill your drink. We ordered a plum wine, which was good but there wasn’t space for the bottle so they placed it a few feet away under the bar in the customer side. It was inconvenient to access for us but they were fairly on top of keeping the glasses full for the most part.

Our server was hard to get a hold of when we were ready to order, we were at the table for 15 minutes before we were able to place an order for drinks and then another 15 before food despite being one of seven tables occupied. When we asked about the fish of the day they had to check in with two different servers before asking the kitchen. Then we had to find out they didn’t have lobster available after trying to order it. I’ve had more at tentative staff that were more professional at 3 or 4 star restaurants.

For food we started with ordering the shrimp mini tacos, duck spring rolls, and sampler of skewers.

Of the three dishes the duck spring rolls were delicious and definitely worthy of the restaurant.

Warning: the shrimp mini tacos are ceviche style (which is fine, but not noted on the menu), but the wakame and crispy garlic (noted) were barely there and are majoring overwhelmed by the ceviche flavor if you can see them. It was an unexpected experience based on reading the menu.

Second warning for the skewers: the chicken satay has a fish sauce element added to the peanut sauce which is not an experience I’ve had eating at Thai or Japanese restaurants before and it was overpowering where they tasted more like eating a fish then eating chicken. The shrimp skewer was underwhelming and also tasted more like a heavier salty fish flavor, think sea urchin, hen what I’ve come to understand good shrimp taste like. I will say the pork belly skewer was tasty and the sauce on that helped saved the chicken skewer.

We had intended to order more dishes but the terrible service and inability to get our servers attention several times deterred from the experience and we decided to leave and go somewhere else to finish out our meal.

The general atmosphere was great. Cool bar & neat artwork.

We definitely will not return nor would we ever recommend.