Pork and fish dishes are recommended and vegetables are excellent.
Maltese beer is excellent, and foreign beers are also available.
There is a wide variety of good and inexpensive Maltese wine and foreign wines and spirits. Licensing hours of bars, restaurants and caf s are usually 0900-0100 and beyond, although alcohol can only be bought before 0100. Most hotel bars close between 1300 and 1600 and then reopen after 1800. There are several discotheques. Roulette, baccarat, black jack and boule can be played at the 'Dragonara' casino, St Julian's or at the Oracle Casino, Qawra.