Baker stands out attractively when walking past. Upon finding a B&B in town, the B&B owner offered…read moreup suggestions for where to eat. Baker! We saw that earlier. We did it. Nice mom and pop place with some family members gathered in one area enjoying their own menu items. We enjoyed the pizza and beer. We could tell it was near closing but there was no rush to push us out. This is Sicily. Community, people, family, friendliness is more important than rushing people out. What a nice island. There was a 2 Euros cover charge added to the bill. We've seen this before in other nice restaurants. Still worth it.

Very friendly staff and good customer service. There are several types of pizza to choose from…read more Their Pizza is pretty good and reasonably priced.

This was a surprise. Did not expect to find a very modern and cool restaurant in Nicolosi, the…read morecapital of Etna the Vulcano. Most people come here to hike or to ski. But on the other hand - why not here? It´s Sicily... The pizza was tasteful and the coffee made of good beans. All to a reasonable price. A bit too cold, though, for sitting down. Had to have my jacket on. But I am not complaining. The air up here is fantastic and fishing ponds under the glass floor and the stairs cheers you up, alongside with a friendly atmosphere.

I was in Catania for business and this is the place the two local Italians took me for dinner. It's…read moreat the top of their list of places to go. We started with the seafood soup. It's not really soup. It was a lot of mussels and clams in a sauce with some bread. It was really good and the mussels were meaty and tender. The bread is used to soak up the juices. For my main course I had the swordfish rolls which was thinly sliced swordfish rolled around some crab filling. They were wonderful. There was four of us and we all enjoyed our meals. The menu was in Italian and English which helped a lot.

The gnocchi with pistacchio cream and guanciale was really good, other than that the rest of our…read moremeal was less memorable.

Friendly guys owning this place. Service is open, fast and…read moreeven if they didnt open yet (but the oven is warm) they prepare you a pizza. Great attitude. Few eat&go chairs outside. TASTE: The most flavorful dough in neighborhood! My top choice: pizza Capricciosa (grilled veg, egg., cotto and parmezan cheese) - grilled veg are outstanding tasteful.

A pair of classics in their respective cities (1 of 2)…read more - - - - - What? Why aren't there more reviews for Caffe' Parisi? Caffe' Parisi has been around for at least 50 years and is in the Fontanarossa area right outside the Catania Airport property. It's to its east, just past the rental car agencies. You can walk there, although the sidewalk is rough and crusty, just like Catania itself. Caffe' Parisi has a counter to pick up things like pizza by the slice, arancini, desserts, and drinks. You can take them to go or you can move further in to the large eating area. If you do this at night, you can only go so far into this eating area. Then, upon once visiting it during daylight hours, I learned that you can go much further in and, there, they have a section for "gastronomia" (sort of like a "tavola calda" with trays). They do a good job with both the things up front and with the "gastronomia" toward the back. Items are fairly priced. The service is friendly enough and, on one occasion in the back, the guy started to speak to me in his marginal English (with extra vowels that don't exist) and I told him to knock it off. He did. It looks like this is a business that has been handed down and a woman who may be closer to the founders and its founding times is sometimes there. One time she was the cashier and, with me and everyone else in line, she went about her work with this sort of scowl. As I got up to the cash register, something got me to say, "Nun ce bisognu di esseri sgrevita." I was looking to get her to laugh, or at least be less uptight, but she did look a little surprised to hear that from a customer. You won't find this in Italian, because it's the local lingo and means "There's no need to be cranky." I think that covers it. I've mentioned Caffe' Parisi's food (including the lunch "gastronomia"), the large eating areas, the prices, and the service, which is "mostly" good. They see a lot of people - both locals for whom it's a hangout and people who do wander over from the airport. That means they've seen it all and the world weariness here is what makes this place humorous. You can find it right at the traffic circle that has a large metallic airplane in its center, where Santa Maria Goretti intersects with Giuseppe Alla Rena, which runs outside of and in front of the airport. There was a symmetrically placed traffic circle in front of the airport, and it used to be empty. In it, packs of stray dogs would just lie there all day. They have now spruced it up and put an airplane in that traffic circle, too. I asked some employees where the dogs went. One person told me they got moved, or moved themselves, to the streets around Caffe' Parisi. They were harmless, sort of timid, and have seen hordes of people since they came into this world. However, they could be goofy and, sadly, I didn't see them near Parisi. I'm giving Caffe' Parisi 4 stars instead of 5 stars because their pizza slices, which are too thick for my taste, weren't the tastiest and it's far from fine dining. If you have some time and need to eat something, especially during lunch, leave the airport and come here. I have on a few occasions. Also, the ownership and staff at Caffe' Parisi should gloss over my smart-alecky comments about them and their restaurant because, after all, I'm sending them customers!