Colosseum Ristorante Italiano

Colosseum Ristorante Italiano Overview

Colosseum Italian Restaurant and Steakhouse is the dream of owner and chef Nicos who combines fine Italian food with the best wine from around the world. Nicos’ passion for wine is clear when you peruse his glass cellar that contains over 200 vintages from the best vineyards worldwide, all tried and tested by the man himself on his travels. People come to the restaurant specifically to sample the rare wines that can’t be found in any other cellar on the island but if you’re not such a wine guru then the sommelier is on hand to pick you out something to your taste.

The menu is quite extensive in that it covers everything from homemade pasta dishes, all sorts of meats including every variety of steak you can think of and a selection of seafood dishes. For our starters we enjoyed thinly sliced salmon on a bed of lettuce, with crushed black pepper and lemon which was a fresh and light dish and Aubergines in the oven with tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese a warm satisfying starter.

For mains we had a fresh rib eye with bearnaise sauce and caramelized onions and mushrooms, and the calf's liver with onion and sage. The steak was a beautiful cut of meat that went perfectly with the local Cabernet Sauvignon from the Ezousa winery. I have never ordered the liver at a restaurant before but was pleasantly suprised, the sauce was lovely and rich and with the potatoes and vegetables that came to share was a fantastic dish. For desserts we had the Crepe Suzette and the Apple Pie with Vanilla ice cream which was the perfect end to a delicious and hearty meal.

Also at the Colosseum from March to December every Monday there is the Pianoman show with Andrew Oliver. Every Friday Ray Ritchie sings the songs of the Rat Pack and the Big Band Era and every Saturday Andrew Oliver performs as Elton John.

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  Posted October 2007

  Best Restaurant In the Whole of Cyprus

  Phil Howcroft

  I first visited this fantastic restaurant in October 2007 following a review I read online, and was so impressed that I have organised to take my parents back this spring. The experienced staff guarantee a warm welcome, and the whole restaurant carries an air of professionalism, normally found in the likes of The Ivy, Gordon Ramsey at Claridges, Gordon Ramsey Verve, Chez Bruce London, Burj Al Arab's'Al Mahara'. Wine lovers will appreciate the extensive range of wines both red and white, I choose a bin end Australian Red and it was perfect. The setting is very relaxed and the staff are great, taking time out to spend chatting about the menu and going out of the way for you. The extensive menu offers tempting dishes – all using local produce. I opted for the Tiger prawns in a tomato sauce, which was in fact the best sauce I have ever tasted the. The combination of the delicate and delicious melt in the mouth prawns was amazing, I could have eaten them all over again. My girlfriend chose a Caesar salad, something you would not expect to be very spectacular; but I found myself torn between the refreshing crispiness of the salad and the flavours of the perfectly cooked tiger prawns. We both agreed that these dishes deserved 10/10 each, and were of course presented artistically. Moving on to the main course, we both chose steak - my girlfriend had steak Diane and myself steak in a peppercorn sauce. I admit that I am extremely particular about the way I like my steak to be cooked, and so I went to great lengths to explain to the waiter how I wanted it. This information was relayed excellently to the chef, as when it arrived it was cooked to perfection. I can safely say that I have not had a steak as good before or since, and its not as if I haven’t eaten in good restaurants before – Rick Stein’s, Jamie Oliver’s and Gordon Ramsey’s are among some of the most prestigious places I have been to. Yet this understated restaurant has managed to impress me the most. Considering I had given all the food sampled 10/10 so far, I decided I must try a dessert. I ordered crepes suzette with ice cream. When it arrived I was a little disappointed – although the sauce was lovely, the crepe itself was not fresh. I asked to speak to the chef as I couldn’t believe that they could possibly get the dessert so wrong after all that delicious food! Nicos, the owner, did explain to me that the crepes were not cooked to order due to time constraints in the kitchen, and immediately offered to make me something else. However, I was fully satisfied with what I had already eaten and so declined. He then took me on a tour of the vast range of wines and brandies he stored, where he proceeded to offer me a complementary brandy of his choice – for me this was the perfect way to round off one of the best meals I have ever had. The colosseum is without a doubt a high quality restaurant, offering first class service accompanied by appropriate prices. It has impressed me so much that I have taken the time to write this, to urge people to have the same experience by visiting. Time spent in Pathos, or even Cyprus, would not be complete without a visit to The colosseum. This is defiantly the best Modern Italian food in Cyprus, do not miss an opportunity to go. Phil Howcroft World Wide Food Critic UK, October 2007.

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