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(mains from €6;
h
12.30-3.30pm & 6-10pm Tue-Sat)
This place has a wooden terrace overlooking the village, and provides good and simple
summer meals like fresh salads,
fassolia
(white beans) and
faggi
(lentils).
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Mylos Restaurant
MEDITERRANEAN
This excellent restaurant at the Mill Hotel is ideally situated next to the river, with a slow-
turning mill wheel and a shady terrace with superb views. The trout here is legendary and
served either grilled or in a delicious garlic-spiked sauce. In winter they light up the his-
toric fireplace inside. You'll need a reservation on weekends.
Linos Inn
CYPRIOT
(
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2292 3161;
www.linosinn.com
;
Palea Kakopetria 34; meze per plate from €5;
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restaurant 10am-midnight year-
round, cafe 10am-10pm May-Sep;
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)
An atmospheric restaurant (part of the same name hotel) with an excellent meze and great
local reds like
ktima malia
(€20), a rich cabernet. There's also a relaxing terrace cafe and
bar (open in summer) where you can try smoking the
nargileh
(water pipe). This is a very
popular venue, so reservations are essential.
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
KAKOPETRIA'S HISTORIC QUARTER
To find the most picturesque and historic part of town, take the lane east of the
Village Pub
,
past a large boulder
known as the
Stone of the Couple
which has a plaque describing how it was thought to bring good luck to newly-
weds until it toppled over and crushed one such - very unlucky - couple. The houses here have traditional trussed
roofs, covered with reeds and tiles and supported by beams with overhanging wooden balconies. Seek out the
simple Metamorposis Sotiros chapel, as well as a small wine museum, tucked up a side street but well signposted.
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Getting There & Away
There's no direct public transport to the Unesco-listed churches in the valley.
Osel Buses
run from Constanza Bastion, Nicosia, to Kakopetria about every hour from
5.45am to 8pm on weekdays and less frequently, from 8am, on weekends. There are
roughly the same number of buses doing the return trip. A single/return fare costs €1.50/3.
NECTAR OF THE GODS
