Forty Fishes: Celebrated Seafood Joint Drops Anchor in Gżira

I spotted the sign on the way to the post office and did a double take. That can’t be the same Forty Fishes from Buġibba, I thought — the one I’d been meaning to get back to for ages, but couldn’t because of, you know, distance. Well, it is — and they’ve just soft-launched in Gżira this week.

The menu is all seafood, all the time. There’s a raw bar, a Crudo Bar with local prawns, scampi and oysters, grilled whole fish and steaks, a battered-and-fried section for anyone who considers fish and chips a legitimate personality trait, a Tar Tar Bar, and Little Skippers — because good things come in small packages. The aljotta is on the soup list, which earns immediate goodwill.

Inside, an eye-popping dominance of blue sets the tone — warm and genuinely inviting. The plates are just as colourful, with flavours that know exactly when to stop. Less is more, and they mean it.

Whether Gżira is your hood, you 9-to-5 there, or you’re just passing through — it’s a wise decision to sea what the food is all about (sorry) while you’re there.

Forty days and forty nights was about endurance. I won’t need much of it to give this one a go.

Forty Fishes Gżira
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Gżira
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Photo cred: Forty Fishes