How it all started

La Vida is Spanish and it means Life.

Everybody has their own unique personal view of what life means to them.
For us we believe that life is for loving, sharing, learning, travelling, eating, drinking, cooking, hosting, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing passion and even more loving. We choose to live life this way.

Our motto is to Love life, Laugh lots, Love forever and Life will love you back in return !

We have been fortunate to have travelled extensively and love sharing food, wine and good company.

During our (hopefully never-ending) gap year from our stressful corporate jobs in London and Dublin, we back-packed all across Latin America and the vision of La Vida was born. Having moved to Malta and constantly experimenting to cook our favourites all the time, we also travelled over and back to different regions of Spain and returned to South America to increase our knowledge.

La Vida was created because of our passion for all things Spanish and the great continent of Latin America. Both regions have some common themes unique food, wines, lifestyle, music and most importantly the people and their love and passion for Life.

All our dishes are linked to the seasons and inspired by what’s grown around us locally. Our menu will change daily based on availability of produce, please let us know any special requests.

Rest assured, however, that they will always taste better in good company and, why not, with a good glass of wine.

Our aim is to reflect this vibrancy and diversity; to convey the taste sensations, flavors of spices, culture, fragrances and styles of our menu, and the warm Latino welcome you will receive at La Vida.

We welcome you to take a culinary journey through Latin American and Spain

Viva La Vida ! Live the life !

Famous quotes of the meaning of life

"Life, Love and the Pursuit of Food and Wine" David Wildy

“Food is like life – create and savour it everyday” Elaine Mulcahy

“Life is having someone to share it with., this life is to be enjoyed” La Vida

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

“My weaknesses have always been food and men — in that order.” - Dolly Parton

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” -Paul Prudhomme

“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” -Anna Thomas

“People who love to eat are always the best people." - Julia Child”

“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” -Orson Welles

“The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” -Lewis Grizzard

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” -Cesar Chavez

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” -Harriet van Horne

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” - Jonathan Swift

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” -Alan D. Wolfelt

"Wine is life and life is love. Good wine brings good life and awareness of the respect one should have for nature and its generosity" John Kolasa,

"Wine never dies. Instead it lives in the soul of the person who consumes it."
~Baron Philippe de Rothschild

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”
-John Gunther