Blue Spice is acknowledged as one of the premier restaurants in Cyprus, dining in our restaurant is a gastronomic experience. – Blue Spice
Pernera is one of those places best avoided, all-inclusive hotels, which in turn attracts bottom end of tourist market. As with Protaras, bars and restaurants competing with all-inclusive, competing with each other in a race to the bottom.
But as I was passing through Pernera, decided to eat at Blue Spice, or at least a friend decided for me when she dropped me off saying it had good reviews
A big mistake.
A strange set up, a very large restaurant surrounding a swimming pool. Also as I discovered later, an art gallery. It also appeared to be part of a larger complex including accommodation.
Souvlaki, or as they insisted on calling it it kebab, was not good. Far worse than No 1 or Vangelis in Protaras and that was not good either.
Very poor quality compared with Plaka in Athens.
As I was thinking of leaving, musicians started to arrive.
It could only get worse I thought, live music.
I could not have been more wrong. Far better than the so-called entertainment in the bars and hotels in Protaras
A guy on electric violin, a guy on keyboards and a female vocalist.
They did not play, they improvised, at one point the violinist was looping.
I asked and learnt they play every Tuesday night.
No way would I recommend Blue Spice to eat, but worth turning up around 2130 for a drink and settling down for the music.
They played a solid two hour set if not longer until around midnight.
A premier restaurant it is not, a gastronomic experience it is not, not unless count gastronomic disaster as an experience, but worth a visit for the trio who play Tuesday night.
Two places worth trying. Demetrion fish restaurant at Liopetri River and Kamasias in Paralimni.
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