Under the pergola

The terrace

Name: Taverna Pirosia
Address: Rruga Vangjel Zoto, Himarë, Vlorë County, 9425, AL
Telephone: +355 69 818 7579
Rating: 4.7

Sky-blue posts, a roof of bamboo and striped canvas, petunias in baskets over the tables and one old olive standing inside it. The tables are plank timber, painted the same blue as the posts.

Sky-blue timber pergola posts under a bamboo and striped-canvas roof, with pink and white petunias hanging in baskets and the taverna's standing red and white sign behind them

The terrace from the road: blue posts, hanging petunias, and the sign that names it.

A blue-painted plank table covered with white plates: a chopped salad, a meat stew with potatoes, stuffed peppers, meatball soup, roast chicken with rice, a wedge of pie under a fried egg, stuffed aubergines, olives, olive oil and dried oregano — 02 of 4
How a table arrives — everything at once, and everyone reaching.

A wedge of dark greens pie in thin filo pastry on a white plate, topped with a fried egg — 03 of 4
Greens pie, cut from the tray, with an egg fried over it.

A blue table set with a round flatbread, whole tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers and a lettuce on a board, a bottle of olive oil, and small plates of olives, salad, yoghurt and a fried egg — 04 of 4
The vegetables the small plates are built out of, before anything is cooked.

Four photographs of the terrace and its tables. There is none here of the kitchen, none of the grill, and none of the terrace after dark — when there is one, it will go on this page.