The veggie way to go

You may have heard of Pizza Mia’s pizza’s and salads, but this family restaurant also serves, as I was pleasantly surprised to find, tasty vegetarian pastas. I enjoyed the oven-baked Spaghetti Napolitana’s (€6,24) basic yet rich flavour.The Spaghetti Vegetariana, also good, was almost twice the size as the other orders, and for some reason only €0.50 more expensive. My only complaint is because the same marinara sauce, cheese, and cooking methods are used in both dishes, they tend to taste pretty much the same. (Tip: when ordering, don’t get confused with what they call macaronia sto forno – basically any of their spaghetti dishes baked in the oven – with the traditional ‘macaronia tou fournou’).The winner for me was the Vegetarian Lasagna (€7,86), with its creamy b?chamel sauce topped with a crusty layer of melted cheese. You can get any pasta dish oven-baked with a thick layer of gooey cheese (highly recommended), but you’ll have to pay extra (€1.45 per item). Overall, I was impressed: the food arrived on time, steaming hot, was tasty and the portions generous.
From: Pizza Mia
Where: Makarios Avenue or Linopetra (Limassol), Spyros Kyprianou, (Nicosia)
Contact: 25 325999/25 570200 (Limassol), 22 374444 (Nicosia)
Open daily: midday to 11pm (or 11:30pm Fri and Sat)
Take Away & Delivery (€1,37 charge per order)

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Nathalie J. Kyrou © 2007

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