Zaffron Restaurant • Cafe • Bar

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8.7 (13)

Took a chance not booking Goosefat & Garlic and it was full up! Saw Zaffron's on the way back - a good alternative.Carpaccio and Tiger Prawns with Parma Ham was followed by lamb cutlets and fillet steak with gorgonzola sauce. Steak should have been medium but arrived well done but was well presented and good otherwise.Death by chocolate and After Eight mint icecream to follow. Death by Chocolate was very hot (over microwaved?) and very sweet but enjoyable. Ice cream tasted of After Eights but didn't have any chocolate - an actual After Eight with it would have been a nice touch. Only four tables taken so service was friendly and attentive when needed.Would cetainly recommend.

Last visit two years ago for same reason, since then mostly a wedding reception venue, so nice to be back.

Lovely table overlooking the sea as the daylight faded.

Managed three courses each (starters, chicken livers, king prawn cocktail: main, duck orange, lamb shank, both with all the right sauces & fresh veg:
desserts, vanilla cheesecake with fruit coulis, pannacotta with berries)
Made it to the sofa for fresh coffee & a long island ice tea (absolut,gin,bacardi,archers,tequila & coke !!)
All vg, pleasant walk home.

We went to this restauarant last year with friends and were directed to a table, wine was served and bread delivered. We had been at the table for at least 15 minutes, when we were asked to move to another table as the one we were sitting at was reserved for a particulary difficult customer.

Our friends were not keen, however we did move and guess what the bread didn't travel with us and the complimentary coffee failed to be offered again at the end of the meal.

This year I resvered a table 9 days before my wifes birthday, saying I didn't wish to have a phone call saying they made a mistake and had a wedding etc.

Guess what on the Thursday before the Saturday I had booked 'SORRY we can't have you here as the restaurant is not open to the public can you come on Friday.

Need I say more GET a DIARY and some RESERVED SIGNS

We used to come to Zaffron regularly before it closed for its weddings experiment, it was my favourite eatery in Paphos and I was always so impressed by the whole experience. I was then, delighted that it had re-opened as a restaurant. I wasn't able to revisit until recently, and although it is still good and I would recommend it, sadly now it is not in my opinion great and I won't be rushing back, in this price bracket there are now better dining experiences close by.

I often judge a restaurant on their soup of the day, its not brain surgery to make a good tasting soup, but it does show a degree of understanding and care by the chef. Zaffrons soup of old was always superb. Now I don't know if there is a new chef in the kitchen, or if they have just taken a drive towards more health conscious food, but whereas before the soups were always wonderfully creamy, this one, brocolli and something, was watery.

So to the Garlic steak with gorganzola sauce, frankly very disappointing. The steak was cooked as ordered, but I couldn't say it had been within a hundred yards of any garlic, and the gorgonzola sauce (instead of been wonderfully creamy as in the past) was now a gluppy (almost nasty) thick demi-glace, described elsewhere on this site by someone else as 'Maggi instant gravy' with the smallest smidgen of blue cheese perched on the top.

Add to that a very overly sweet sorbet desert and house red at 17 Euros, I did not rate this dining experience at all. My overall opinion after I had reflected, was that they had kept the prices the same (except for the wine), but the quality had gone - I guess as a cost cutting measure - but frankly I can get mediocre food at any number of 'tourist restaurants' at a cheaper price.

Zaffron remains a favorite with many as the reviews here confirm, my review is an honest appraisal of someone who has known the place since it started.

We had a wonderfully relaxing and romantic meal here after having driven past this restaurant for many years. We simply took it for granted that it was there. This was our first revisit since 2005 when the portions were well presented but miniscule.

Things have changed and the have found a great line in fine dining, great selection of different meals, good sized portions, keen prices and a wonderful service staff who were exceptional and put up with our dithering about.

We had a nice party of 4 people, all ordered different meals, all got individual thumbs up. They all arrived hot on warmed plates, the table settings were spacey and everything in the right places.

Waiting staff welcomed us at the door with a smile and added to the ambience throughout by being there throughout our meal, but never in our faces. We were allowed to eat, drink and socialise at our own speed without the glare of management.

We were actually very lucky to get a seat as they had a wedding the day before and one soon after and they would apprear to reserve the entire premises for these functions.

Knowing about the seperate bar and weddings etc, I expected the restaurant to have that bar/fusty smell about it but enjoyed the clean fragrant smells.

I cannot recommend highly enough.