August 13, 2021
Larnaca’s modernisation has led to a raft of trendy new places opening over the last few years. One of the many is the Qbic hotel on Ermou. The hotel’s restaurant sits front and centre on the main road and is a prominent feature. Luckily, this means that the restaurant is open and accessible to the general public. By the entrance, you’ll see a delightful old bicycle that has a basket of flowers over the back wheel and a sign saying ‘Mingle’ hanging from the crossbar.
The normally busy street was very quiet and so was the restaurant. It was completely empty when we walked in, only the crowd of staff hanging around waiting for patrons. After having shown our SafePass, we were quickly ushered towards a table and a bottle of water was brought to us along with the menus. On each table there was a different, one word message spelt out in scrabble letters. Ours said ‘kopiaste’.