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Our best yet restaurant experience in Italy.
So far we’ve been to Rome Catania Syracuse, and here, maybe 15 restaurants, and this was the best so far.
People always say they love the food and wine in Italy, that everywhere is great. Our experience is that most places are okay but nothing special.
This place is special. The mozzarella eggplant appetizer was a delicious way to start the meal, a bit like the five star version of mozzeralla sticks, if regular mozzeralla sticks were a 2/5. This was the fine dining version.
The table wine was a steal at 4 for half liter, and tasted great for the price.
The grilled sea bass was so flavorful and fresh, it beat the pants off the last one we had in Syracuse.
But TBH the biggest surprise was the grilled pumpkin, which was more pickled than grilled, a semi crunchy vinegar soaked delicious treat.
The coffee was not very good, skip it.
And the downstairs windows open to the sea by request, you’re just a few meters from lapping waves and serenity.
Oh and the bread, the first good bread we’ve had in all of Italy. It came out warm and soft and salty. Like a main course, it was so delicious we ate the whole basket.
All the other restaurants we went to have had terrible bread. We might be bread snobs, but tasteless, dry, bland, are the adjectives I’d use to describe every bread we’ve tried from Rome to Sicily, until now. Moist, delicious, warm, succulent heaven.
I really wasn’t expecting much when we came here, a touristic beach front restaurant. On our way the guy across the street yelled at us “you’re looking at your phone to pick a restaurant? You don’t need a phone to pick a restaurant, LOOK AT THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE!”
Well phone, you didn’t let me down this time. Despite being underrated for the flavor we experienced, we went to the top rated place with a view, and neither the flavor nor the view disappointed. And I used to work as a cook, I’m picky.
If you’re looking for good food by the sea, you’ve come to the right place.
You can even meet your dead fish before they cook it. The catch was fresh caught local. 😅😊