Polis
Πολις
March 13, 2004
Arriving to Polis was easy, finding our hotel was not. Our hotel was family owned
and the father/son pair were very friendly and pointed out a good restaurant for
meze... not surprisingly owned by his brother.
We again got lost on the way to the restaurant, but found a 600-year-old olive tree
and eventually the restaurant. It had a great atmosphere and the host and waiter
were more than accommodating. We ordered brandy sours and meze: a traditional Cypriot
meal. The brandy sours were incredibly good and we soon realized were very strong
as well.
The meze began with bread and four dips: one was pink and they said made of fish,
another purple (forgot what it’s called), the third was garlic paste, which was
very strong and the fourth incredible, although I'm again not sure what it was.
We were all served salad with our bread; a traditionally Greek salad with lettuce,
feta, tomatoes, olives, onions, cucumbers, and a little olive oil. After this first
part we got 1) olives, 2) eggplant and eggs, 3) veggies (leafy, unlike anything
I’ve had) in tomato sauce, 4) grilled cheese cubes, and 5) a lot of stuffed pasta
with strange foods, which were very good.
The main dish of meze was lamb, liver, bacon, and pork. The lamb was the best and
very tender.
We finished out meal with brandy on the house; again, very smooth. We were very
full and immediately went back to go to bed.