For yet another year all of the Hilton Malta’s restaurants were recipients of top awards at the Definitive(ly) Good Guide to Restaurants presentation gala dinner organised last December.

The decision-making process was based on the votes of no fewer than 600 regular diners who eat out at least twice a week, effectively meaning that the awards were based on a minimum of 60,000 dining experiences.

The Hilton’s Blue Elephant and Oceana restaurants were amongst the restaurants rated second best overall, whilst the Blue Elephant repeating its success for last year, and was placed first overall for both service and ambience and was also classified best for romantic dining. The Hilton’s Gazebo and Bottega del Vino restaurants were also presented with a number of awards.

The guide lists the 150 most highly rated of Malta’s 1,000-plus dining venues based on food, service and ambience and the number of satisfied customers responding. Mario Decelis, the Hilton Malta’s Director of Sales and Marketing expressed great satisfaction at the results obtained by the Hilton’s catering establishments: “This is undoubtedly a very important benchmark for us in that all four of our restaurants have been rated by discriminating local diners as being among the very best on the island. The Blue Elephant and Oceana being rated joint-overall second and first overall in other categories is no mean feat either. This bodes very well for the future of our catering establishments and the hard work and attention to detail that the team members have put in is definitely reaping results.”