Eat & Drink

Nenu at the Maypole artisan bakery

Simple tastes

Maltese bread by artisan baker Nenu. A video to warm the heart. Insider view of baking the daily loaf.

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Merchants Street at Xmas

Does Malta shutdown at Christmas?

In Malta for your Christmas holidays. Worried you might find the islands closed for business? We’ve glad tidings that things here aren’t so bleak.

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La Poiana ('the buzzard') olive oil

Olive Oil from Italy with love to Malta

Olive oil produced in Italy and brought to Malta, not by a regular retailer but by a Gozitan dentist who’s a passionate artisan producer.

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White Sheep label 2

The White Sheep of Fine Foods

A hub for food lovers. The White Sheep brings Malta unique, artisan produce, fine wines, a delectable deli and a cafe all in one. Plus a 5% discount for Malta Insideout users!

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Maltese stone and pumpkins, complementary colours under autumnal sun

Pumpkin: Not just for Halloween

In Malta, a pumpkin is not just for Halloween, it’s for daily life – for stews and soups day in day out, not once-a-year lantern making.

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The Donut Factory

Expats mean Business – starting a new brand in Malta

The first in a series on Expat-preneurs. Experiences of a French couple who’ve just launched a food-retail business and new brand here, The Donut Factory.

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Lampuki a traditional fish dish in Malta

Lampuki Pie as Mama made

Lampuki season in full swing. Tried and tested by generations of Maltese mamas, Lampuki pie is the fish at its best.

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Malta's olive harvest

Olive harvest serenade & Tapenade

Olive harvesting in Malta is making a come back big time. We celebrate the harvest season on its way and share our love of Tapenade.

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Watermelon Ice

Watermelon Ice: summer cool!

Watermelon ice: just the job to stay cool in those sultry, humid days at the end of a Maltese summer.

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Strada food and wine festival

Take to the Streets: Strada wine & food festival

We don’t usually take to Valletta streets for a Mediterranean passeggiata. Strada Wine & Food Festival encourages us out though.

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Traditional Maltese foods now being packaged and marketed as gifts

Food for thought

We see the pretty side to Maltese farming at those agricultural fairs in village squares. But what of the challenges facing farmers in giving us our traditional Maltese food favourites?

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Ftira with giardiniera - Malta's summer snack heaven

Malta’s perfect summer snack – Ftira

It oozes olive oil, it’s messy to eat, it’s chewy, crusty and squelchy. It’s Malta’s Ftira, the bread with the hole. Fill it with this fresh giardiniera recipe for the perfect beach snack.

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Seeing red again

Unapologetically, we’re serving up some more of the soft red fruit. Here’s a simple recipe idea to use the glut of Maltese strawberries you’re going to buy at today’s Strawberry Fair!

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A Passion for Plate and Palate

Something of a week for gastronomes… the best of both worlds if you’re a foodie as Maltese raw ingredients meet Italian culinary know-how in a ‘degustation’ event on 13 & 14 April.

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