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Telegraph
20-05-2025
- Telegraph
The 34 best restaurants in Malta
In the last decade Malta has morphed from a nation still culinarily compromised by the legacy of British colonial cooking to a truly gourmet Mediterranean destination. It received its first Michelin stars in 2020,and now has seven Michelin-starred restaurants, one of them with two stars. All serve primarily modern Mediterranean cuisine. Many more restaurants are named and praised in the Malta Michelin Guide. You can still get a great full English breakfast, or even a butty and beer if you insist, but you can also eat extremely well (without Michelin stars) for far less than in the UK. So why not avail yourself of the region's best with perfectly cooked fish fresh from the surrounding sea cooked with just-off-the-bush capers and local white wine, or fresh lobster ravioli and sumptuous steak followed by ricotta cassata, gooey hot chocolate pudding or homemade fig ice cream. The Maltese love their food, so the country is full of excellent restaurants, patronised by locals and visitors alike. Portions are often large, and nobody here wants to rush through a meal, so allow a bit of time, relax, and enjoy. Find out more below, or read on to find our most mouth-watering suggestions for where to eat around the island. We also have guides helping you plan a weekend in Valletta, the best places to stay, how to fill your time on the island (and what you can do for free), plus the best beaches and bars. Find a restaurant by type: Best all-rounders Rubino An unassuming Dickensian shopfront leads to this smart but relaxed Valletta favourite, with white tablecloths and walls decorated with wine bottles and bottled vegetables. The blackboard menu of excellent traditional Maltese, Sicilian and Mediterranean dishes changes daily. There is always a mix of meat and fish, and usually a rabbit dish (much loved by locals). The slow-cooked lamb melts in the mouth, and don't miss Rubino's rightly famous Sicilian cassata – made with ricotta cheese, not too sweet and utterly delectable. Service is efficient, knowledgeable and friendly. Awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand (for 'good quality and good value food') since 2020, this is a place to return to again and again. Guzé In one of Valletta's oldest houses said to have belonged to the city's sixteenth-century Maltese architect (Girolamo Cassar), you'll find Guzé. This intimate, family-run restaurant serves consistently excellent food in an elegant but relaxed limestone-and-white-linen interior. Equally good are their perfectly cooked fresh fish dishes and the large value-for-money fillet steak. The carpaccio of sea bass and panatone are both (in their very different ways) subtly delicious and the hot chocolate pudding will pull any chocolate lover back for more.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Futura Mobility, LLC Launches FuturaCare+, A Value-Based Care Strategy to Help Hospitals Control Costs, Reduce Downtime, and Improve Patient Outcomes
MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa., May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to price increases, out of manufacturer warranty devices, and increasing pressure to meet value-based care goals, Futura has announced the launch of FuturaCare+, a purpose-built extended warranty program designed to help healthcare organizations reduce unplanned capital expenses, stabilize operational performance, and protect critical bedside technology. FuturaCare+ offers flat-rate, two-year coverage on out-of-warranty mobile carts—including batteries, inverters, WOWs, and key components often excluded from OEM agreements. The program includes unlimited advanced replacements, all-inclusive shipping, and a shared risk model that directly impacts clinical outcomes and financial planning. "As hospitals face constrained capital budgets and increasing demand for operational performance, we developed FuturaCare+ as an alternative to new asset purchases—extending asset life while supporting measurable improvements in care," said Moira Rubino, Vice President of Services & Delivery at Futura. "A single Workstation on Wheels (WoW) failure impacts far more than just IT—it creates delays in patient care, documentation, and staff efficiency. What many don't realize is a single WoW may support the care and documentation of five to six—or more—patients per shift. When one fails, the disruption extends across the care team—for example, slowing access to lab and imaging results, prolonging clinical decision-making, and forcing clinicians to revert to manual or delayed documentation. This can increase the time required to care for each patient by an additional 20 to 30 minutes, and the cumulative effect often contributes to an increased Length of Stay (LOS) and added strain on staffing. FuturaCare+ transforms this unplanned downtime into a controlled, Value-Based Care process that safeguards both patient care continuity and capital efficiency." Key Features of FuturaCare+ Include: Full warranty coverage for high-failure components Unlimited advanced replacements—shipped before return Improved uptime and quicker onsite repairs—all shipping and support included Flat, predictable pricing to eliminate budget volatility Alignment with Value-Based Care metrics, including uptime, efficiency, and documentation quality Ideal for organizations: Managing out-of-warranty mobile or bedside carts Struggling with support delays or inconsistent repair workflows Facing capital spending freezes or unpredictable break/fix costs Transitioning toward value-based or outcome-driven care delivery "We're helping health systems rethink support as a strategic function," added Rubino. "This isn't just warranty coverage—it's an operational safety net that protects patient experience." FuturaCare+ is now available to healthcare organizations nationwide. Learn more at: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Futura Healthcare Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Time Magazine
08-05-2025
- Health
- Time Magazine
Francesco Rubino
With obesity medications like Wegovy and Zepbound dominating social media and conversations in doctors' offices, you might think that doctors at least have a good idea about what obesity is. But there really isn't a conclusive definition of the condition, with some clinicians maintaining it's a chronic disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes, while others say it's not a disease itself, but a risk factor for other diseases. 'There isn't a description in medical history, because historically, obesity has been recognized as a spectrum,' says Dr. Francesco Rubino, chair of metabolic and bariatric surgery at King's College London. In 2024, he led a group of more than 50 international experts, convened by the medical journal the Lancet, in an effort to define obesity so doctors could better recognize, diagnose, and treat it as a disease. 'We found that nobody was entirely right when we started to discuss whether obesity is a disease or not, and also nobody was entirely wrong,' he says. The committee came up with guidelines, published in January, to help doctors distinguish between preclinical obesity—in which people gain weight but may not yet have any negative health outcomes—and clinical obesity, in which people have symptoms such as diabetes or sleep apnea. It may seem semantic, but defining a condition that affects more than 1 billion people worldwide has consequences for treatment. Rubino says understanding where people fit on the obesity spectrum, and creating more useful distinctions between those at risk and those beginning to experience disease, will help more people to manage their weight better with medical help. Already, 79 major health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the World Obesity Federation, have endorsed the revised guidelines.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Yahoo
Johnston man facing drug, gun charges
JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Police arrested a Johnston man Thursday after finding a firearm and narcotics while searching his home. Anthony Rubino, 40, is facing a number of charges, including four counts of possession with intent to deliver narcotics, possession of a firearm while committing a controlled substance violation, possession of a firearm while committing a crime of violence and possession of a large-capacity feeding device. Detectives searched Rubino's home and found a .40 caliber pistol with a large-capacity feeding device attached to it, as well as $6,880 in cash, fentanyl, Psilocybin, Adderall and Xanax. Rubino faced a judge Wednesday and was ordered held without bail, according to police. Download the and apps to get breaking news and weather alerts. Watch or with the new . Follow us on social media: Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Yahoo
Gambling den owner describes fake police raid at trial of ex-Nassau detective feds say was on Bonanno payroll
Not long after a Nassau detective staged a fake raid at a mob-run gambling den in the back of a shoe repair shop on behalf of the Bonnano crime family, the owner spotted the cop in an unlikely place — a seedy Long Island bar run by a Bonanno associate, the shoemaker testified. Salvatore 'Sal the Shoemaker' Rubino took the stand in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday, describing how now-fired Nassau County detective Hector Rosario raided his back-room gambling club, which he ran out of his Merrick shoe store, back in 2013. Rosario is on trial for obstruction and lying to an FBI agent. The feds say he was on the take for the Bonanno crime family, paying visits to gambling dens run by competing families in the hopes they'd be scared into shutting down. But Rosario had no luck putting anyone out of business — COVID actually shut down Sal the Shoemaker's gambling den years later, not Rosario's clumsy attempt to make him think he was under investigation, according to testimony. Rubino, 60, who got his nickname from his profession, had a second job – running underground card rooms and Joker Poker machines for Joseph 'Joe Box' Rutigliano, a Genovese crime family associate, he testified. Rosario, meanwhile, was close friends with Sal Russo, a Bonanno associate who was running competing gambling spots, and owned the Blue Tequila bar in West Hempstead. According to court papers, the Blue Tequila regularly brought in women and paid them to entertain male customers and encourage them to drink. When Russo wanted to chase away the Genovese competition at his gambling spots, he called on his detective friend, who agreed to show up at their doors and identify himself as a cop to intimidate them, according to the feds. Rubino ran his gambling room at night, in a back room that wasn't visible from the front of his shoe store. And when Rosario came calling in 2013, he brought two men with him, all wearing 'police' jackets and what looked like police shields dangling from their necks, Rubino testified. Rubino said he was headed to the front of the store to smoke a cigarette when he saw them outside. '[Rosario] pointed at me to open the door and showed the badge,' he said. 'As soon as I opened the door, he started pushing toward the back, barging in, all three of them.' Rosario kept asking, 'Who's in charge?' and when the shoemaker asked who he was looking for, the cop said, 'Where's Joe Box?' Joe Box wasn't there, so Rosario asked one of his cohorts to smash a Joker Poker machine screen with the back of a flashlight. Before they left, Rosario called out a warning: 'He just [said], 'Stay away from Joe Box!' And they ran out,' Rubino said. Rubino, who'd been busted in a real gambling parlor raid in the past, quickly realized 'something was not right,' he said. The so-called cops didn't take anyone's IDs, didn't seize any machines and didn't make any arrests. About a week later, Rubino was at the Blue Tequila and he spotted Rosario, 'just hanging out,' he testified. Rosario also tried to leak intel to the Nassau County D.A.'s office's organized crime unit to shut down rival ambling parlors, according to the feds. He arranged a meeting with Det. John Clinton in April 2014, Clinton testified Wednesday. Rosario said he had a confidential informant who knew about gambling rooms run by the Gambino and Genovese families, but he wouldn't share the informant's name, or even put him on the phone, Clinton testified. And he didn't want to be brought into Clinton's larger investigation into mafia gambling operations. Clinton called that 'a little unusual.' Clinton also gave jurors a glimpse into how gamblers got access to the secret rooms. At the Gran Caffe in Lynbrook, which was run by the Bonanno and Genovese families, would-be gamblers had to know the code to get to the back room: 'You go by the counters, ask for an espresso or cappuccino, say you knew someone named Kelly.'
