Palazzo Preca Restaurant — Restaurant in Valletta

Disappointed but Jan saved the day. We will discuss later. Decor was nice but to use paper napkins in my opinion is a huge mistake. It downgraded the whole experience. As stupid as it sounds, the paper napkins really annoyed me and makes it déclassé. The service was not warm and inviting and needs a lot of training. For example, I dropped my paper napkin and the server said “let me get you a new one”, but never came back. I had to get a napkin off another table. And when I ordered the bottle of wine, the server forgot to bring it over. As the food was coming, I asked where is the wine. The server apologized and said “I forgot.”When you order a bottle of wine, one should also not have to keep pouring your own wine. And when you finish the courses the plates should be removed. Also, the atmosphere was too warm. And now the food review. I felt the food all around was just mediocre. I ordered two fish, one recommended by the server and it was not good. I had one baked and the other grilled but both did not have enough salt. Thankfully, Jan did the right thing and comped the flying fish (do not order). The best dish was the special rabbit stuffed pasta, I thought it was very good. Overall, I was looking forward to this experience but it turned out to be less then expected. In all due respect, if you train the servers and get linen napkins the experience will improve dramatically. The rest depends on the food which I believe has the potential. Sorry for the honesty and I hope the owners take the criticism as a...

Disappointing experience, especially for the 111 Euro bill!

I reserved a table for two for 7:30pm. We showed up at circa 7:50pm. I can appreciate that the restaurant was busy, however we sat there long enough (at least 10 minutes) to get up and seek a waiter to be given menus and put our drinks order in.

My starter, which was a special (wild boar tortelli), took more than an hour to arrive. Although it was delicious, the portion was far too small, with a mere five pieces on the plate for a price of 17 Euros. My guest's octopus was apparently rubbery.

At one point, a middle-aged waitress came around and asked every other table in the "library" (the section off to the side of the main dining room with red tablecloths, where we were seated), if everything was okay, apart from ours, when clearly it wasn't, as we were still waiting for our food. The table next to us, also a table of two, got through two courses before we had had anything!

For mains, we both had steaks, mine a rib-eye and my guest's a tagliata. These arrived a further 30 minutes after we had eaten our starters. Granted, my guest was happy with his main, but my steak was distinctly average.

Food aside, which I was happy to pay for, it was the wholly inattentive service (I also did not appreciate waiters bringing a measure to measure out a perfect glass of wine to the table - can't it be done elsewhere?) and long wait times that really put a dampener on our meal. I...

We’ve been wanting to try this place whenever we visit Malta but it was always fully booked, so we decided to booked it a month ahead. We had the opportunity tonight to enjoy their expertise and delicacies.

They provided great and attentive services. We had a bottle of Gran Cavalier to accompany our meal. They served aubergine spread for our bread and gazpacho for a starter. You can tell that the gazpacho was made from fresh ingredients as it’s so light yet rich.

We ordered Rabbit Liver for entrees. We never had rabbit liver prepared so well, the caramelized onions absorbed the sauce flamed in sherry.

We were in awe, and went for traditional rabbit with garlic simmered in wine as our main course. We wish we had more room for dessert but it was a lot of amazing food. We received Limoncellos on the house afterwards.

I read another review few months ago that someone complaining about receiving less change of money than it supposed to, here’s my take: this is a high end fine dining restaurant. They’re very professional and I believe any miscommunication will be solved immediately in the spot rather than complaining in google review and being negative.

We’ll definitely go back and I would like to try their Linguine Caruso Classic as they use calamari ragu, chopped prawns and a hint of chilli flakes— and it was a family recipe of chef Ramona Farrugia...