Ancient Saint Francis Focaccia Shop

Absolutely incredible food in such a cool location! I got the sarde a beccafico, a sfincione, and the famous pane con la milza.

Service here was slow and a bit impersonal. I ordered a few premade items that just needed warming up, but it still took about 30 minutes for anything to arrive. The food was pretty good, but the overall experience felt mechanical and lacked any sense of warmth or attentiveness.

I went there for the Panino Con La Milza E Formaggio and it was great! I like the local too, it looks like an old traditional style. I enjoyed it!

We had just arrived in town and our Airbnb host suggested we head down to this place for a quick dinner. We were just going to have a cocktail and an appetizer but ended up having the shrimp linguine with pesto and I had ordered the rice balls sample, but ended up getting a different sampler plate, which I enjoyed. Their service was quick and the food arrived fast. Everything was warm and when I flagged the server over to question my meal, she explained each of the different rice balls that I had received and the items on the plate. The setting is a small square right front of the cathedral. The only two negatives were the panhandlers that were coming through either playing music begging for money or selling flowers or just begging for money and the second being as I remember on a previous trip to Italy there is a cover charge per person and this was three euros each. Remember no tipping necessary.

Welcoming waiter, who explained us typical Sicilian food and it was simple bit good! The place itself looks amazing

Partner and I were on the way to another restaurant to have some pizza. On our way, we were swayed by the sight of a gorgeous piazza full of customers and an attractive menu. We decided to sit and I ordered the Burrata salad and the aubergine pane (a bread roll with slices of aubergine). My partner ordered the “Sicilian” steak and a side of potatoes. Our orders were taken and then within 10 minutes, brought out in a plastic cloche which we could see was placed on a nearby table before being brought to us a further 5 minutes later. Unfortunately, the salad was extremely bland and the tomatoes hardly ripened. The salad arrived with a tiny bit of basil and some dried oregano, topped with burrata. The pane/roll was oily and again, very bland to the taste. My partners steak and potatoes were also under-seasoned and oily. We were hungry so did eat our food but left half of our meals on our plate. We complained about the dishes on paying, however the staff advised it was “not possible” to amend the total bill and offered no apology. We reluctantly paid the €52 bill and will not be returning.

Great location. Great atmosphere. TERRIBLE service. I ordered the eggplant parmigiana. It was a while before it arrive. When it arrived I had one bite - it was good, but it was COLD. I told the server that it tasted good but it was cold. So I asked if he could have the kitchen warm it up. The server called someone from the wait staff and handed the plate to asked the server to have it warmed up. That’s that last I saw of my dinner. In time my husband finished his dinner and still no eggplant parmigiana. When I asked the waiter about, he played dumb, like he didn’t know what I was talking about. So we made sure he cancelled the order and I went to find some street food.

Five of us came and although we weren't served at the same time (which is why I gave the service four stars), we had a great time, the waiters were friendly and gave us a warm welcome, the food was excellent, well served and prepared, the quantities and prices were reasonable, in my opinion this restaurant is on the list of restaurants to go to in Palermo, I highly recommend it .