Worthy of a Michelin star

Caviar and BullCorinthia HotelSt George’s Bay,St Julian’s

Food: 10/10Service: 9/10Ambience: 10/10Value: 9/10Overall: 9.5/10

There’s an old adage about ageing that I’ve heard batted about over the years. As time creeps ever onward, you meet your friends at birthday parties, then weddings, then baptisms and then funerals. I’m somewhere in that middle stage; that painfully expensive middle stage.

It seems like I attend a wedding every other week these days. And oddly, I know fewer and fewer people at these events. But with a small Maltese wedding averaging about 250 guests, that’s no real surprise. And with most of those guests being on the periphery of the hosts’ social circles, it’s rare that I am ever actually invested in the ceremony itself but tend to just turn up for the open bar and finger food and to ‘get my money’s worth’.

That is why when a close friend of mine decided to finally tie the knot, I made plans to fly out to the UK where he had relocated to years prior. Sadly, due to a hundred unfortunate circumstances, it just wasn’t to be and I missed the wedding. I was gutted but quickly formulated a plan to make it up to the newlyweds.

Knowing they were planning a trip...