Coffee worth the walk up Old Bakery Street.
Small-batch beans, poured with care, plus a proper weekend brunch and pastries out of the oven each morning.
A small local bird, and a small local roaster.
The merill, the blue rock thrush, is Malta's national bird: quiet, native, and up before everyone else. We took the name because that's the sort of place we wanted to be. We buy green coffee by the season, roast in small batches at the back, and dial each one in until it's worth your morning.
No syrupy nonsense, no queues out the door for the sake of it. Just good coffee, made properly, on a street that's been baking bread for four hundred years.
Inside Merill
Wood, worn tile, and the smell of the first roast of the day. This is the room you will actually sit in, and the sort of thing that tends to end up on the table. Hover to take a closer look.
Old Bakery Street, Valletta.
187 Triq il-Fran (Old Bakery Street)
Valletta VLT 1454, Malta
