Pillar 04 · Food & Where to Eat

Where to Eat Near St Catherine’s Square

If you’ve come for St Catherine’s and want to stay close, the parish square and the streets that lead off it are where to eat. A short, walkable list — sit-down meals, quick bites, coffee.

This article is a stub. We’ll keep it short and local — five-minute walking radius from the church door, no further.

Within five minutes of the church

The parish square itself has a couple of corner bars worth a stop for coffee or a quick bite — you order at the counter, find a table outside, and watch the square. The streets that radiate off the square hold most of the restaurants worth a sit-down meal: a couple of family-run trattorias, a more ambitious newcomer or two, and the occasional band club kitchen open for lunch on weekends. For a fresh pastizz, the nearest pastizzeria is usually no more than a two-minute walk; for a proper Sunday lunch, see our Sunday lunch piece.

The square’s logistics: outdoor seating in the cooler half of the year is excellent; midday in July and August it can be too hot to sit under direct sun, and most restaurants have an indoor room or a courtyard to retreat into. [LOCAL FACT — Mattew to list 4–5 specific places within 5 minutes’ walk of the church, with a sentence on each and current closing days.]

How to choose between the options

The square itself has a particular pull, and many visitors end up eating there simply because they’ve already sat down for a coffee and the menu has appeared. That’s fine, but it’s worth knowing what’s a few streets away. The general rule: the trattorias one block back from the square are usually a better-value lunch than the ones with a view of the church facade, and the corner bars two streets away are quieter for an evening drink. The square itself is best for a single drawn-out coffee or a long apero rather than a full meal, especially in summer when the sun is on the seats most of the day.

What this article will cover

  • 4–5 named restaurants within 5 minutes’ walk
  • The corner bars in and around the square
  • The nearest pastizzeria and where to take a fresh pastizz to eat it
  • Where to sit if it’s hot
  • Where to sit if it’s raining
  • Where to go if you want a longer lunch and want to walk it off afterward

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Mattew Cassar

Resident · Writer

Mattew writes zejtun.com from a flat above his grandfather’s old workshop on Triq San Girgor. He has lived in Żejtun for twenty-three of his thirty-one years.