Restaurant survey with The Times

Food lovers can rate the restaurants they have visited over the last year by making comments in the Malta and Gozo Restaurant Survey which is included in The Times today.

The comments will help to create what is billed as the most authoritative and objective restaurant guide in Malta and Gozo, The Definitive(ly) Good Guide to Restaurants.

This will in turn help to improve Malta's restaurant infrastructure by guiding locals and tourists to the good restaurants and therefore help to improve their business.

Claire Bonello, writing for the MHRA magazine, said: "Inclusion in the guide attains another dimension and keeps restaurants on their toes".

The survey includes and rates 150 restaurants. The top-rated 38 receive awards at the annual gala dinner in December.

Reviewers who return surveys with ratings and include the funniest, relevant, brief and informative comments by August 14 could win a first prize of two nights for a couple at the Fortina Spa Resort in the "all-inclusive" therapeutic spa bedroom with own private pool. The package includes a therapeutic bath, high pressure massage for two, a dermalife machine, a stressbuster machine and free use of Spa Sante for two as well as lunch and dinner at any of the Fortina Spa Resort Restaurants.

The second prize includes a PADI Open Water dive course for two people at the Oxygene Dive Centre and the third prize includes two nights at the Intercontinental Malta plus a meal for two at Al Fresco Restaurant.

Anyone wishing to receive the survey can send one's name and address to info@restaurantsmalta.com or call 2180 2383.