Get Real! wrote:I faintly recall a thread about him, I think by Halil when he first opened up... and I remember me and DT (?) walking around the wrong neighborhood trying to find him because someone had said he opened up in the green line which didn't sound right...
Actually, for your information, I started that thread:
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... sc&start=0
The article that I translated from erroneously gave the location of this restaurant as Ermou Street, when it is actually in Regina Street.
Not important. I managed to dine at this restaurant only once. A young south Asian woman was serving in the dining area and I remember as I was eating a party of Greek Cypriot youths sat down. It appeared that this woman was only able to deal with customers in English, and these three young men insisted on being served in Greek, so the proprietor (shown in the picture below) was summoned from the cooking section. I can vouch for the accuracy of his nickname "fatty"! I can also vouch for his extreme fluency in Cypriot Greek.
This event is a tragedy for Mustafa's own family and, in a wider sense, for the reunification process, because his own success in setting up and growing a business in the unoccupied part of the island may well over time have served as a role model for others.
May he rest in peace.