Ai Lumi

I CANNOT recommend this restaurant to ANYONE. I don't understand how they have such good ratings everywhere. I feel like they are scamming people with all their old "Michelin Guide" stickers on their window, the newest one being from 2018...so quite old and the food clearly had no relation to the stickers. We went to eat here on our last night of our holiday, because of the cute terrace and the menu sounded good...but the food was so bad that it ruined our whole nights mood. The starters were fine, but the mains that we were really excited about where the worst we've had this year. We had the grilled king prawns, which cost 24€. Definitely over priced for a dish that had only 4 prawns and a piece of lemon on it. The price could've been forgive if the dish would've been good, but no. The prawns were raw and not cleaned, they all still had the gut that is full of feces. And because they were raw the taste was bad, and the texture was so gross that I could feel it on my tongue for the rest of the night. Our other main was the veal with the blueberry sauce, this one was 28€. The dish could've been tasty, but the plate was drowning in the blueberry sauce so you couldn't even see what you were supposed to be eating. All you could taste was the blueberry, even when we tried to scrape the sauce of, the veal was pointless on the plate because you couldn't only taste the sauce. We first tried really hard to stay positive and just eat the food we were given....but in the end we realized there's no point in paying almost 30€ per dish for such bad food, both dishes being so bad that we couldn't finish them. We told the waiter that the mains are so bad that we are not paying for them and they barely even apologized. We only paid for the starters (because they were okay) and left to eat a pizza in a different restaurant. They could've saved the situation with good customer service, but no, they just decided not to care... Like I said, cannot recommend this restaurant to anyone.

I am slightly surprised by the number of negative reviews. During my visit in May, everything was tasty and fresh. The staff were friendly and helpful. I came to the restaurant on the recommendation of a friend who had visited the restaurant a year earlier.

Not very tasty food. Sauce was so bad we all have stomach aches, like straight from a can, very flat and simply not good. Do not recommend this place.

I have been working in the restaurant business and i hope this review helps in two ways: 1 That management and the chef improve their game . 2 preventing people to end their holidays with this disgusting bad taste., like we did We forget to reserve elsewhere so we went impulsive and that is how we ended up in this restaurant . The prices seemed okay at first, but then you see the portion sizes. Which in hindsight is a positive as the dishes where beyond bad in taste or in structure. After the starter which was not only super dry and left a bitter after taste. I kept hoping the main course could make a comeback for the night but helas. Not only did i have to wait for a grilled sword fish, which to my knowledge if it was fresh. Should only take ten minutes, but for them it took more than 30 min. Comically they gave my starter again first, but eventually came after another 10 min. Instead of apologising because my wife finished her diner already, threw my plate like he was the only one working in the restaurant and couldn’t be bothered. Mind you there were at the least 5 waiters in front with three tables empty and could have easily handled by one maybe two people (if it was full) If the menu says grilled fish steak (swordfish), i expect the grill marks to be evenly dark and not grey and dull like it was straight out of the freezer. The only reason i finished my plates was because I didn’t want my wife to feel worse. We ended up here, partly because of her and tried to make the best out of it. (But she knew the truth because she didn’t like any of hers as well). Our neighbours that were from Italy seemed more than disappointed and disgusted, they didn’t finish their plate. Couldn’t blame them, they somehow managed to get something so bad that the odour was sickening. I can continue and give more details but then i need to make a whole webpage. I expect the restaurant to brush off these claims. They can do so but I don’t see them do well with this in the future. Probably they get some friends in the neighbourhood to artificially boost their score as they seem to do. Good lick to all who mistakenly go here.

Oh dear, where to start, lumpy hard pillows, rock hard beds, water in rooms cost 1 euro each, 5 euros if you want to use your kitchenette, we had to beg for coffee and tea bags, luke warm water most days which barely trickled out.|Only thing in its favour is that it is close to all eateries but they all pretty much serve the same pastas, seafood. |Have had nicer italian food in Australia, dont expect fabulous ocean swimming, beaches full of rotting seaweed.|Closest swimming beach is 15 mins by bus.|I’d give this town a miss.

Not good. I am not overreacting, I was still hungry after eating here. 2 pastas (why so small?) and 2 glasses of wine 50 eur. Expensive because it’s main street? At least make it tasty…

No no no, and one more time NO. Do not go there. Tourist trap with overpriced dishes, low quality of ingredients and bad service. 15 euro for a starter? It wouldn't be bad if the food was tasty and satisfing. Opposite, bread cannolo was tiny and ink balls incredibly dry. Fish steak which tasted almost out of date (aparently fresh catch... -.-) and pasta al norma made out of flavourless aubergines. Somehow Ai Lumi managed to destroy staple dishes of Sicily. Waiters couldn't care less about our well being. Plates were late and in rush thrown at our table (one almost landed on legs of my partner!). Not mentioning that at the payment they didn't even ask if we liked our food.... They know... They know what is going on in the kitchen. Italian couple with seafood plater next to us left half untouched as it stank. Our last evening in Sicily was ruined. We have such an amazing dinners in Palermo, Katania, Cefalù.... and then this happens. I'm dubble sad out to restaurant had an event...

Yes, it's old-fashioned and slightly tired, and very quirky, but all the better for it! It's a real gem, and very good value. I greatly enjoyed my three nights here. The owner is delight, charming and helpful (carried my suitcase up the old steps for me). The location is ideal and easy to find. The room was very quiet, overlooking a central courtyard, the bed was comfortable. I slept very well. Breakfast is very good, with squeeze-your-own orange juice and a good selection of savoury and sweet, and the woman who oversees it all was a friendly start to the day. I booked a basic double for single use, but if you are a couple you might want to upgrade to one of the larger rooms.