11 Ribs In Malta You Need To Try Immediately
As Fat Bastard from Austin Powers once said, ‘I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs’. And to be honest Fat Bastard, same.
There’s nothing better than throwing all dining etiquette out of the window and sinking your gnashers into a meaty slab of ribs. I don’t care if I end up with bits in my teeth, sauce on my face, sticky fingers and meats sweats; nothing will come between me and ribs.
Barbecue, spicy, saucy, dry, pork, beef, short rib, spare rib, baby back, there are so many ways to enjoy this drool-inducing piece of meat.
Here is a list of some of the best rib dishes Malta has to offer. Just make sure you use your hands, because as we all know, the messier the better.
1. Pork belly ribs from Fat Louie’s
St Julian’s
Fat Louie’s ribs are six-hour hickory/mesquite smoked and drowned in their in-house barbecue sauce.
They’re not shit, they’re the shit!
2. Beef Ribs from The Pulled Meat Company
Gżira, Valletta
The succulent glistening slab of beef ribs from TPMC are what carnivores’ dreams are made of.
They’re prepared over 24 hour on the sous vide and finished on the grill served in a house glaze. Yes. please.
3. Charcoal-grilled pork ribs from Bert’s Kitchen
Luqa
A full rack of ribs glazed with their special dark ale barbeque sauce.
Elbow lickin’ good!
4. Beef ribs from Fat Louie’s
St Julian’s
Fat Louie’s does it again, this time in the form of beef. This hefty dish are oak smoked for 12 hours and served with pickled shallots.
Get. In. My. Mouth.
5. Pulled pork ftira from EAT
Mosta
This bad boy from beloved street food truck EAT is top notch. It’s deboned, grilled (while basting in a homemade sticky rib sauce) and tucked in a ftrira.
Basically ribs in a bun; what more can you ask for?
6. Full rack baby back ribs from DayFresh
Birkirkara
Make sure your belly is empty when you order DayFresh’s gigantic full rack ribs which are slow cooked and generously doused in a bbq & Jack Daniels glaze.
How saucy!
7. All the ribs from Pit Master
Birkirkara
Pit Master, the newer kid on the block in this list, only opened last November, but their menu – particularly the ribs – look like they’ll have a big following.
They do not one, but three kind of ribs: Smoked pork loins ribs with their signature BBQ sauce, smoked pork spare ribs with sweet chilli or BBQ sauce or smoked beef ribs.
Need I say more?
8. Baby pork ribs from KuYa Asian Pub
St Julian’s
KuYa’s ribs are sloooow-cooked and smothered with an addictive Japanese BBQ sauce.
So tender, they’re positively unreal.
9. Full rack pork ribs from Meraki
Rabat
Meraki’s ribs are cooked for 24 hours, smoked and are 700 grams.
Worth every meat sweat endured.
10. Honey pork ribs from La Buona Trattoria del Nonno
St Paul’s Bay
Lara’s special marinated honey pork spare ribs from La Buona Trattoria are prepared in their secret marinade and baked for over 4 hours in their wood oven.
The meat falls off the bone, just the way it should!
11. Pork ribs from Truth
St. Julian’s
I’m speaking the truth when I say that the pork ribs from this steakhouse / club lounge are banging!
They come as a full rack, slow-cooked and glazed in their sweet and sticky in-house BBQ sauce
Bonus points for All You Can Eat ribs and wings every Wednesday for only €18.95 per person.
Tag someone who owes you a dish of ribs!
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