Corfu Restaurants

Corfu Restaurant Reviews

Corfiot food specialties tend to reflect the island's Venetian heritage. Those worth a try are soffritto (veal cooked in a sauce of vinegar, parsley, and plenty of garlic) served with rice or potatoes; pastitsada (a derivation of the Italian dish spezzatino—layers of beef and pasta, called macaronia in Greek, cooked in a rich and spicy tomato sauce and topped off with béchamel sauce). The island is famed for its old olive groves; Corfiot olive oil has a slightly bitter tang.

Other tantalizing treats include bourdetto (fish stewed in tomato sauce with lots of hot red pepper) and bianco (whole fish stewed with potatoes, herbs, black pepper, and lemon juice).

Corfu doesn't have many vineyards, but if you find a restaurant that has its own barrel wine, try it—you'll rarely be disappointed. Two drinks that are legacies of the British are tsitsibira (ginger-beer), often drunk while watching cricket, and the orange-color liqueur made from kumquats, which the colonists first planted on the island. Locals say the liqueur, available at any tourist shop, is an aphrodisiac. Look also for a delicious lemon-, or kumquat-flavor jellied candy, coated in powdered sugar, called loukoumia and made in Corfu. Bottled water can be bought everywhere—Corfu's salty tap water isnot one of its pleasures.

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