Restaurants cuisine du monde Southern Nicosia

We're not going to tell you it's the best place to eat, but this café-restaurant is one of the first in Nicosia to offer Filipino dishes. It's about time, since the neighborhood has been home to a large community from the Southeast Asian archipelago since the 1990s. The result is quite improbable, as this traditional Greek-style café serves Turkish-style coffee as well as Filipino staples such as adobo (pork with barbecue sauce), tuyo (fried fish) and ginataang manok (chicken curry).

Chicha, thé tea, and mezzé in this authentic Lebanese restaurant. After shisha, you can take a tabbouleh or a delicious fatoush salad with toasté bread or a taouk shish. Shawarma at 9,50 €. Shisha (apple and grape molasses) at 8 € and 12 € to the fresh apple. It is better not to be hurried because the service is a little long. Some evenings, belly dance show. For info, the hotel rents a few rooms and has a small annexe 100% shisha at the corner of Solonous and Sokratous streets.

An excellent address that hasn't changed since 1983. On a waxed tablecloth and in vintage crockery, you can eat authentic magiria, Cypriot home cooking. The choice is yours: indoors or on the small terrace in the shadow of the Arablar mosque, listening to the caged birds or the rumours from the school next door. Depending on the day, Mattheos Georgiou and his daughter Athina offer incredibly tender kouneli (rabbit), stifado or kleftiko (baked lamb)... You can feel that the dishes have been simmering for many hours.

This is Nicosia-Nord's busiest café-restaurant. And with good reason: it's located in the courtyard of the delightful "grand caravanserai", the Büyük Han. The cuisine served here is fairly honest Middle Eastern: mezze, Turkish or Cypriot ravioli, bulgur "sausages", badadez köftesi (phyllo rolls with meat or potatoes), chicken kebabs, bureks and more. Drinks: ayran (fermented milk), Turkish beers, lemonade, tea, coffee... Very pleasant in the morning, before the mass arrival of tourists.

We recommend this bookshop for its restaurant, which serves a choice of three to four daily Cypriot or international dishes, each accompanied by three mezzés, bread and a dessert. The place is pleasant, with a small, nicely decorated dining room upstairs, a large shady courtyard between ruined buildings and, of course, plenty of shelves of books, mainly in Turkish. It's also a great place to have a drink: cocktails with or without alcohol, wines, beers, coffees, teas... Good wifi and a cozy atmosphere.

Honest local cuisine at very reasonable prices. We like the area, although touristy, and the beautiful courtyard. But if we recommend this address, it's also because it's a warm, family-run business. Despite the crowds, especially at lunchtime, this modest restaurant remains half-hidden on the side of the Selimiye mosque. The dishes are hearty. Try dishes such as karnıyarık (stuffed eggplant) and don't forget to order the homemade hummus, tasty with its lemony notes.