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KLIMATARIAΚΛΗΜΑΤΑΡΙΑ · KATO PAPHOS · SINCE 1994

TAKE A TABLE

The courtyard at golden hour — a grapevine trained overhead on iron, stone walls, one lantern lit and empty tables on flagstones — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

ΚΛΗΜΑΤΑΡΙΑ — THE VINE CANOPY

Time moves differently in the courtyard.

The Ritual →

Kato Paphos. Stone walls, one vine, and a fire that was lit at eleven this morning. Lunch here has been known to end after dark.

TAKE A TABLE UNDER THE VINES THE RITUAL

TODAY

Friday 28 August

Charcoal lit at eleven, the clay sealed, and the list written after the boats came in.

THE RITUAL

Nobody orders. The plates simply keep arriving.

You make one decision at the start, then you stop deciding.

Meze is a sequence, not a course.

Bread and the three dips first, while the fire settles. Then the cold plates, then whatever came out of the pan. Somewhere past the middle the sheftalia arrives and the conversation stops for a moment.

Twenty-two plates on a full night, priced per person, wine apart. Two people minimum. Tell us when you have had enough — nobody here is offended by that.

plates, at the pace of the kitchen

€34

per person, the whole sequence

2½h

and that is if you are in a hurry

THREE OF THE TWENTY-TWO

03 — 22

Grilled halloumi with charred lines and wild mint, close up. — Halloumi, charred
The halloumi comes down from the mountain village at dawn, still in its whey. Mint from the wall behind the kitchen. The salt is scraped off the coastal rocks.

Cracked green olives with coriander seed and lemon peel. — Olives, cracked
Struck with a stone rather than cut, coriander seed cracked over them, a week in the jar with lemon. They are the first thing on the table and the last thing left on it.

A blistered round of pita on a floured wooden peel in front of the oven mouth — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Pita, wood-fired
Fourteen seconds against the oven floor, blistered on one side, torn not cut. It arrives four times over the evening.

THE LIST

Roughly this, most nights.

Written in the kitchen each afternoon, after the boats and the village van. There is no PDF to download and there never will be — a list that cannot change by Thursday is not a taverna's list.

Tahini · taramosalata · tzatziki
with pita from the oven, all night

Lountza · hiromeri
smoked loin, wine-cured ham, sliced thin

Koupepia
vine leaves off our own canopy, rolled at nine

Louvi with chard
black-eyed beans, oil, half a lemon

Kolokithokeftedes
courgette and anari, fried in the pan

Salingaria
snails stewed in wine and tomato

Octopus on charcoal
hung two days first, vinegar, oil, oregano

Whatever the boats brought
red mullet, picarel, bream — whole, salted, grilled

Kolokasi with pork
taro, celery, lemon — winter only

Anari with carob syrup
and a plate of fruit, which is dessert

MEAT €34 · FISH €40 · FROM THE GARDEN €28 — per person, and the fire is included in all three.

THE WRITTEN LIST, WITH PRICES →

THE FIRE

A fire that hasn't gone out in thirty years.

The foukou is a metre of steel and a hand crank, and the pork on it takes ninety minutes whoever is waiting. The kleftiko goes into the clay oven sealed with a rope of dough the night before and comes out at seven; when it is gone, it is gone.

On Sundays a whole lamb goes into the pit at dawn — ofto — and the courtyard tables are given away by Thursday.

Souvla

Pork shoulder, thumb-sized. Salt, lemon, ninety minutes, one turn of the crank a minute.

Kleftiko

Lamb shoulder, bay, cinnamon. Sealed at midnight, opened at seven. Twelve portions.

Sheftalia

Pork and parsley in caul fat, straight over embers. The plate people describe afterwards.

Ofto — Sundays

Whole lamb and potatoes, buried at dawn. Book it; do not chance it.

Sheftalia browning directly over glowing charcoal on the foukou — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

The domed clay oven under the vine at dusk, logs burning inside and the iron peel resting across the mouth — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

THE FAMILY & THE ROOM

Recipes that outlive the people who wrote them.

A pair of older hands rolling stuffed vine leaves at a floured table, four finished ones lined up beside the pile of leaves — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Maroulla rolls the koupepia at nine each morning and has never measured the rice.

The courtyard before service — a scarred table in the foreground, rush-seat chairs tipped against it, the vine overhead — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — The chairs came with the building in 1994. Nobody has been allowed to replace them.

A half-full carafe of white wine beaded with condensation on a stone table — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Xynisteri from the Vouni villages, nine hundred metres up. Cold, saline, by the carafe.

Twelve tables under the vine, nine inside when the wind turns.

The building was a net store, then a bakery, and the oven is the bakery's. We whitewashed the walls, kept the beams, and planted nothing — the vine was already here and is older than the licence.

Courtyard tables are first come after nine. Inside is bookable, and in August you should.

CHILDREN, ALWAYSDOGS UNDER THE VINEGROUPS TO 24, ONE SEQUENCE

The upper terrace after dark — lanterns on the stone wall, the vine overhead and the coast road lights below — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — THE UPPER TERRACE
Four tables above the wall, and the coast road going quiet.

A TABLE

Ask for the vine, and come before the light goes.

WhatsApp is the fastest way in — tell us how many, what time, and whether anyone is not eating meat. If you want the kleftiko or the Sunday ofto, say so when you book. Both run out.

TAKE A TABLE UNDER THE VINES CALL THE COURTYARD FIND THE DOOR ↗

Placeholder address, number and prices — replaced with the real ones before launch.

TUE — SAT12:00 — 23:30

SUNDAY · OFTO12:00 — 18:00

MONDAYclosed

THE COURTYARD

Agiou Antoniou 14, Kato Paphos
8041 Paphos, Cyprus

TELEPHONE

+357 26 101 100