Monday, 18 January 2016

Sunday, January 17/2016



Sunday lunch. This time we go with Bill and Jane to Kofinou, a little village just south of Larnaca. There's a restaurant there featuring lamb kleftiko - baked in a traditional outdoor beehive shaped oven. Actually, later googling reveals that there are several (5?) kleftiko restaurants in Kofinou, which is known in Cyprus as the village to go to for the best kleftiko. It's also known for its refugee centre, prefab houses sheltering various refugees including, as of September some Syrians who sailed from Tripoli in Lebanon. (And also for its abattoir). 


Our meal is certainly very good, served with roast potatoes, preceded by salad (including very nice marinated caper greens) and followed by small pastries filled with anari cheese and Greek coffee. Quite busy and all the other patrons seem to be Cypriot, a good sign.