FAMISHED EXPLORER

This restaurant is located in the beautiful Century village which itself gives a really nice vibe when you enter owing to the natural surroundings. I was invited to Zorba to try out their food.  They have seating indoors as well as outdoors. We sat outside since we wanted the natural vibe, but close to the indoors so we could get a bit of the cool breeze from the air-conditioning inside as the weather was warm.  We started with the potato and leek soup which was really delicious. From the texture to the flavours, it was totally on point and felt really comforting.  For the salad, we had Greek salad which had cucumber, tomato, onion, bell peppers, and was drizzled with olive oil and mild spices. It tasted really fresh and I liked the fact that it had a generously sized piece of feta on it.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Famished Explorer [ UDIT ] (@uditss) on Apr 6, 2019 at 11:26am PDT After this we had the Cae...

I'm always looking for some cuisines which we don't get too often, and one such cuisine in Dubai is Greek. Also, it is really hard to find an authentic place, since many of them are tweaked to suit local audiences. I was invited to try out this place which was started in late 2016.  This restaurant is run by a Greek couple - Kyriakos and Julia - who themselves are at the restaurant regularly, and we had the opportunity to meet them. The chef too, is a relative of theirs and we could see the passion that this family has to serve people delicious Greek food.  We started with some of their cold starters which looked a bit similar to Arabic ones, but are quite different. One of these was the Tirokafteri which is a blend of feta cheese, yoghurt, and chili peppers. This was among my favourite here. There was also the Grecian hummus . It had a bit of honey, and wasn't all that much to my liking.  The next one was the eggplant salad , which was fresh and simi...