Taste Of Cyprus – Your next Villa BBQ Experience

  • November 5, 2025
Villa BBQ Experience
A relaxed, guided cooking experience with Pambos “Just good fire, food, and stories — the Cypriot way.”

Welcome to your Taste of Cyprus BBQ!

This is a relaxed, hands-on experience — not a catering service. We’ll cook together, share stories, and enjoy authentic island flavours straight from the grill. Below you’ll find what to expect, plus the recipes you can revisit after the experience.

📍 What to Expect

  • Duration: about 3–4 hours
  • Everything is hands-on and relaxed
  • I’ll guide you through each recipe step by step
  • Come hungry, curious, and ready to have a good time
Team-building at the Souvla experience

🕰️ Flow of the Experience

Arrival & Welcome 
We meet, settle in, pour a little wine, and talk about the menu and ingredients.

Prep & Fire Up the Grill 
We chop, season, and light the charcoal. You’ll get familiar with Cypriot grilling techniques — slow and steady.

Cooking Together 
This is where the fun happens. We grill souvla, shape sheftalia, toast pitta, and mix our dips. Stories flow as freely as the aromas.

Sharing the Meal 
We gather around to enjoy what we’ve cooked — the Cypriot way: good food, wine, and company.

Your Recipe Selection

Taste Of Cyprus – Your next Villa BBQ Experience

From the Grill 🧑‍🍳

Souvla (Lamb & Chicken)
– slow-grilled over charcoal, the island’s favourite feast
Recipe
The Souvla Experience
Sheftalia
Traditional Cypriot patties wrapped in caul fat, grilled over charcoal.
Recipe
Sheftalia grilling over charcoal
Loukanika & Pastourma
Cured, smoked sausages grilled over Charcoal.
Recipe

Grilled Pitta Bread – warm and smoky, perfect for dipping

Halloumi on the Grill
Halloumi grilled , optionally served with olive oil, herbs and lemon.
Recipe
Halloumi on the Grill

Taste Of Cyprus – Your next Villa BBQ Experience

Dips, Relishes & Meze Plates

Tahini Dip
Lemon and sesame dressing with garlic — a vegan favourite.
Recipe
Tahini Dip Sauce
Piccalilli Dip (Cypriot Pickled Vegetable Relish)
A tangy, crunchy relish. A perfect meze companion to grilled meats, sausages, or cheese.
Recipe
Tzatziki (Talattouri)
— cool and refreshing.
Recipe
Combine all ingredients and chill before serving. Adjust garlic and lemon to taste.

Crudities & Salad Leaves – tomato, cucumber, Spring onion, olives & seasonal green leaves

Baking kolokasi like a jacket potato
You can bake kolokasi like a jacket potato, as they are both root vegetables that can be roasted to a fluffy interior with a crisp skin.
Recipe
Kolokasi Bulbs

Taste Of Cyprus – Your next Villa BBQ Experience

Celebrating Cypriot Craft

Sparkling (reception) Wine:
1. Eddial, Vlassides
White Wines:
2. Aeries, Macarounas
3. Alates, Vlassides
4. Exelixis, Tsiakkas
Red Wines:
5. Oroman, Vlassides
6. Vamvakada, Tsiakkas
Dessert Wine:
7. Commandaria, Tsiakkas

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We have curated a collection of exceptional Cypriot wines, each reflecting the island’s unique viticultural heritage. From ancient traditions to modern innovations, these bottles tell the story of Cyprus wine evolution.

Community

Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay
Eddial

Eddial sparkles our land. 

Named after one of the ancient Nine Kingdoms of Cyprus, known as Eddial, meaning “I saw the sun.”

This sparkling wine embodies the modern renaissance of Cypriot winemaking, showcasing a sophisticated approach to “method traditionel”. Its crisp freshness and delicate bubbles offer a bright, contemporary welcome, reflecting the exciting new directions winemakers are taking on the island.

Tip: Perfect for toasts to long-term achievements and enduring success.

Innovation

Xinisteri
Aerides
Vegan friendly

Reflecting innovation and fresh perspective.

The name Aerides means ‘winds’ in Cypriot, referring to the cool breezes from Troodos peaks that help the grapes relax after a hot day, enhancing the wine’s character.

This Makarounas creation showcases the refined elegance of Cypriot whites, with bright citrus and stone fruit notes, and a crisp finish, reflecting the care and techniques raising indigenous varieties to international acclaim.

Roots & Wings

Xinisteri, Vieilles Vignes
Αlátes
PDO Afames

The delightful charm of Cypriot wine that’s ready to dance onto the global stage!

In Cypriot, Alates means ‘wings,’ and this wine truly embodies that vision. Produced solely from old vines of Xinisteri, the dominant local white grape variety, Alates is Vlassides’ way of giving wings to the aspiration of introducing a fine, representative Cypriot white wine to the world.

It showcases a wonderful balance of richness and vibrant acidity, often with subtle mineral undertones, expertly crafting a wine that expresses the island’s unique geographical signature while aiming for global recognition.

Evolution

Promara, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Xynisteri
Exelixis
Vegan Friendly

The blend of indigenous and alien grapes in our vineyards!

The name Exelixis means ‘evolution’ – a movement towards a higher state. This wine narrates Cyprus’s viticultural journey. Until the 1980s, Cypriot winemakers focused on indigenous grape varieties, before introducing ‘alien’ varieties like Chardonnay. In the 2000s, there was a shift back to native grapes due to market demand and a rediscovery of heritage.

When Exelixis launched five years ago, it included mostly international varieties. Each vintage showcases a new chapter: the incorporation of native Cypriot grapes is increasing. This reflects the wine-making culture of Cyprus, evolving from international trends to celebrating its indigenous heritage. It’s a wine of ongoing progress.

Vision

Lefkada, Shyraz
ÓROMAN

Óroman is a tribute to our roots.

The name Oroman means ‘vision’ in Greek, reflecting the innovative spirit behind this wine. The current vintage features 5% Syrah and 95% Yiannoudi, our local red grape. Oroman aims to evolve into 100% Yiannoudi, highlighting indigenous grapes.

This vision is grounded in Vlassides’ young vineyards, planted in 2013, showcasing their unique terroir. Oroman celebrates the land and its roots, emphasizing Cyprus’s native viticultural heritage.

Character

Maratheftiko, denominated Vamvakada
Vamvakada
Vegan Friendly

Maratheftiko: The Cypriot Flagship Variety

Vamvakada refers to the indigenous grape variety Maratheftiko, primarily grown in high-altitude vineyards. Historically undervalued and considered ‘difficult’ to cultivate, it was neglected due to low yields of secondary products like raisins.

A turning point came in the late 1990s when Maratheftiko was replanted, initially for blending purposes. Today,  Tsiakkas highlights its true potential, showcasing the resilience of Cyprus’s native varieties and the quality that can emerge from dedicated cultivation.

Identity

Xinisteri (Mavro)
Commandaria
PDO Commandaria

The world’s oldest Designated Name of Production (PDO)

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In-Office Wine Tasting Events

An in-office tasting event typically features an introduction to tasting techniques, followed by a tasting of five wines, with the ‘flavor tasting kit’ that includes sweet, salty, bitter, and acidic nibbles, along with crusts for calibration of your palette. The session lasts 1.5 to 2 hours and focuses on a guided, interactive, and enjoyable sensory experience, tailored to your needs!

A broad idea of how an event works is as follows:

  • Welcome drink
  • Short introduction from your host explaining how the evening will work.
  • Introduction to wine tasting technique (with wine of course!).
  • Putting our new knowledge to practice by sampling a number of other wines, we generally think five is a good number, but we can do more or fewer!
  • Your sommelier host rounds off the event, awarding prizes to any winners if a competitive element is included (generally the less knowledge people have the more likely they are to win!).
  • Guests continue with informal drinks/food as agreed with client.

Set-up & Tidy-up

We usually arrive a couple of hours before a corporate event start time to unload our equipment, set up the room and make sure we have met the client and understand any last-minute requirements. We clear away everything we have brought at the end of the event, and are usually out of the building within an hour or so. We can of course provide additional wine for pre- or post-event drinks.

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