Nikki Dake heads to Platres for an unusual experience

Super Bingo is one of the most successful programmes on Cyprus television. But just what goes on at Monte Caputo on a Monday night?

It’s the essence of Cypriot life abroad and the subject of a witty novel about the life of English Cypriots

JANE WALKER attends the premiere of Theatre Antidote’s Fairytale Heart by Phillip Ridley

Beauty for a reasonable price
When you’re in the supermarket it is well worth checking out the beauty products on offer. For a fraction of the price of leading brands they offer a range of benefits

Brandy Alexander

Abu Faysal Lebanese restaurant
Chicken with Rice
serves 6

1 chicken cut into 8 pieces
2 cinnamon sticks
5–8 cardamom pods
2 cups rice (preferably basmati)
200g minced lamb or beef
Salt
½ tsp allspice
½ tsp cinnamon powder
½ tsp freshly ground nutmeg
200g pine nuts
200g blanched almonds
200g raisins

Bake ahead for Easter

This loaf is a new take on tradition and is great sliced for tea or toasted with butter. It keeps better than hot cross buns and it’s nice to bake something a little unusual.

Hot Cross Loaf
Serves 12

For the yeast batter
100g strong white bread flour
11g easy-blend yeast
1 tsp light brown sugar

Trattoria Dante

Simple, quality fare

Dante’s inferno is alive and well in an Italian restaurant in Limassol

Withering heights
In terms of quality, the bar for Cyprus wines has been raised

AS COMPETITION from abroad increases, Cypriot wineries find themselves pitted against one another in a bid to maintain local market share. A lot has been written before on how to achieve this and the Photiades family seem to hit the jackpot with the creation of the Kyperounda Winery.