Set into the 400-year-old city bastions of Valletta, and offering local and international dishes, Fusion 4 symbolises the new scope and ambition in the island's kitchens.

The restaurant is located opposite St. John’s Cavalier on a Valletta back street corner, and one must go down stairs. The dining area is set in a cool and airy tunnel decorated in an elegant, modern, minimalist style creating a classy, yet relaxed, ambience. The bar area shows how modern Maltese design can blend so easily with a building that’s hundreds of years old. Alternatively, if you prefer "al fresco" dining, lunch or dinner can be served on the bastions.

The place also includes a quant multimedia exhibition of Maltese traditional crafts, which should appeal to locals as much as to tourists. Viewing for groups can be arranged by appointment daily. Free to view for all diners.

Menus are International with a cool fashionable twist, serving food which is mouth watering and sumptuous. The wine list features trendy new world wines, traditional European wines as well as a delectable single vineyard selection for the connoisseur.

Service is informal yet informed. The staff know the menu and wines inside out and are adept at keeping cool under pressure, especially during the post-theatre scrum.

The setting and atmosphere manage to be at once traditional, romantic, buzzy and sophisticated making Fusion 4 ideal for romantic dinners, group meals and people who just want to indulge in wine, platters and the setting.

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