Siracusa

I guess I will let my Tripadviser review of the restaurant speak for itself

“Exquisite in every way”

We went to this restaurant after reading about it on Tripadviser.

The restaurant is a superb combination of:
- superb food superbly plated and presented
- outstanding service
- incredible ambience
- surroundings

The restaurant is located in a 7th century and fully restored building in the Duomo square in Ortigia. We arrived at 8:00pm to be a greeted by a young man who spoke excellent English and escorted us to a table offering us a choice of locations to suit ourselves.

The menu was excellent mainly focussed on seafood but with some "pig" and veal.

The dishes we chose included grilled octopus (tender and tasty) and the cold seafood selection for appetisers. For mains we had sea bass, shellfish Ravioli and "pig". To top it off we had a degustation selection of 5 desserts but beware this was enough for three people.

I really can’t speak highly enough of our dining experience. If you dont go you will be missing an excellent dining experience.

Would you recommend this restaurant to a friend? Yes

We are concerned however that this may have set the food bar far too high. In that regard we asked the Maître Di if he knew any restaurants worth visiting in Taormina or Palermo and he got some recommendations from the Chef.

We agreed to meet for breakfast at 08:30 but Katja, unusually slept till 9:30 and we met closer to 10:00. We decided to drive to Ragusa, a baroque town of 70,000 about 1.5 hours away. This proved to be an excellent idea as we came upon a beautiful hill set town. We also visited Modica, another baroque village and Pozzallo a beachside town.

We arrived back, took a power nap and went back to Ortigia where we walked the streets, visited the shops – have to say usual ones Max Mara, Zara, Benetton and the usual suspects.

We stumbled upon a Trattoria where we had a light meal. I guess this drove home two lessons the need to research where to eat and not to order meat in a seafood society as we had an ordinary dinner. All very tired to back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep before we move on to Taormina.

Love to all
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