Nicosia - Post Report Question and Answers
What typical restaurants, food delivery services, and/or takeout options are popular among expatriates?
During the pandemic, web-based services for food delivery bloomed. The two biggest are Wolt and Foody. Wolt is the better because it provides more accurate time estimates and tracks deliveries to the door. Most restaurants are affiliated with one or the other. Supermarkets as well, although I wouldn't ask for a large delivery since the courier comes on a motor bike. You can get typical fast food, McDonalds and KFC delivered this way. My recommendations are : To Parko (souvla), Manora (Thai), Yummi India (Indian). If there's good Chinese food here, we haven't found it. There is a good, albeit a bit pricey sushi place near Larnaca: Nippon. There are a few words for coffee shop, but altogether, there is one on about every corner. Pick one and get a customer loyalty card punched. There are three words to remember when it comes to coffee: stekos (black), metrios (semi-sweek) and glykos (really sweet). You can use them with Turkish coffee (called Cypriot coffee) or regular filter coffee. Since it's so hot most of the year, ice coffee is very common. - Aug 2022
Bolt and Foody are two companies that deliver food (like uber eats but better). You can also order from grocery stores on there. American fast food restaurant chains are plentiful here (Pizza Hut, Burger King, Taco Bell, McDonald's, KFC, etc.) along with typical Greek food. - Aug 2022
Food is expensive, eating out is expensive, and the quality is decent but rarely great. - Jul 2013
McDonald's, Burger King, TGI Fridays, Bennigans, and some very since local place to eat. Not bad prices -- a little more than in the US. - Jun 2011
Everything, including McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and TGIFridays. They're roughly the same price as in the States. There are also plenty of inexpensive kebab and gyro places. - Dec 2009
There are the typical fast food places like McDonald's, etc... there are also a lot of great Gyro places which are better. There are a lot of decent restaurants but if you are looking for Gourmet stuff, they are hard to find. - May 2008
