Name: Laona Restaurant
Address: Paphos, Akamas & Paphos, CY
Price range: €€
Rating: 4.6

Laona RestaurantA tiny lunch-only spot serving honest, daily-changing home-cooked Cypriot dishes — locals queue for it.Traditional Cypriot · Tavernas · Paphos (Old town (Kato Paphos)) · ★ 4.6 (1700 reviews) · €€Known for Lunchtime home cooking.Why Laona Restaurant makes the listAsk around Paphos for traditional cypriot and Laona Restaurant keeps coming up. A tiny lunch-only spot serving honest, daily-changing home-cooked Cypriot dishes — locals queue for it.With a 4.6-star average across roughly 1.7,000+ public reviews, it sits in the top tier of Paphos — places this consistently rated are exactly what this guide exists to surface.What to order & what to expectThe thing to order: lunchtime home cooking. This is traditional Cypriot eating: charcoal, clay ovens, village wine and plates meant for sharing. Come hungry — meze here is a marathon, not a sprint.Where it is & when to goLaona Restaurant is in Old town (Kato Paphos). Paphos splits in two: Ktima, the upper market town, and Kato Paphos below — the harbour, castle and UNESCO archaeological park, with the hotel strip and old-town lanes in between. Cypriots eat late; go from about 8pm for the full atmosphere, and book ahead on summer weekends — good tavernas fill with local families, which is exactly the sign you want.Good to know

If meze is on the table, pace yourself — the grilled meats land last.

Ask what’s from the charcoal today rather than sticking to the menu.

House wine by the carafe is usually local and usually good value.

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