Very nice bar cafe before you get to the villiage Castelmola. It sits behind the big parking lot…read more Views of Calabria mainland across from straits of Messina. The ladies tried to fit my phone in their charger for a quick charge. Very accommodating and friendly ladies running the show here! We each had a beer. Inexpensive. Easy walk to villiage. They gave us information about the town. Nice place to stop for a snack and relax

Verso Coffice is a great corner coffee shop in Catania. The staff is very friendly, the pastries…read moreare yummy, and the prices are fair. They can serve you coffee from a typical espresso machine, but they also offer Chemex and V60 method. They have charcoal croissants and anytime I see any charcoal anything, I just have to get it! Since this isn't the heart of downtown, it's mostly locals that frequent this joint--a good sign for any decent cafe/eatery.

Beautiful and delicious sweets! Wish we could have some sent back to our home in the US!!…read more The young lady who waited on us was so helpful! We had car trouble (rental car) and she helped us try to contact the rental agency. Unfortunately, we weren't able to talk to anyone at the Avis agency so she got someone else to look at our car and he got it started! We did bring a tray of their sweets back to enjoy with our daughter and her family. They were delicious!!!

This place lived up to its status! Service, food and ambiance - everything up to the mark!…read more The decor here is so different - high ceilings with traditional chandeliers added to the charm. Homely and beautiful! I loved the bread here, ofcourse it came with olives and some sun dried tomatoes - this itself was such a great start. I got the radish salad which was simple and nice along with some app - can't remember the name but that was pretty tasty. For mains I got the risotto and husband got the white fish - both amazing! Finished the meal with some ricotta dessert and thoroughly enjoyed the dinner. I'm not a ricotta person but i highly recommend the dessert. On our way out we even got some pasta to take home and some marmalades. Highly recommend this place - I'm a fan!

Traditional casual Sicilian restaurant in central Catania that was a short walk from my hotel…read more Great service and most servers can help in English. They also have menus in English which if you are not a native Italian speaker, I recommend as they have some interesting items on the menu you may not want to mix up. I asked the waiter to help me select and enjoyed a pasta with sardines, tomatoes and pistachios €12. Epic! The main was pork stuffed with white local cheese and pistachio paste €14. Again, epic! Paired with the excellent local rioja €7, so good. No room for desert but I would put money down it was good. This is a very nice restaurant. Only thing I didn't like is several donkey plates on the menu. I love horses so not my thing. Apparently very traditional to eat horse or donkey on the island. With the Mediterranean Sea walking distance, I would have thought more seafood, less donkey.

This restaurant is racist. They refused to serve black people while serving all of the…read morewhite-skinned people who came in long after us. We sat for almost 30 minutes with no service. They wouldn't even get us water. The white people who came in 15 minutes after us were given waters on their table right away. When I asked the waiter if he would help us, he looked at me up and down and then turned to go take orders for the other tables, who again came in at least 15 minutes after we did. We are visiting Italy from the US; I do not recommend this establishment to any black person or anyone who does not condone racism, as they do not wish to serve blacks.

Coffee martini. Bailey's shake Port of Messina. Sicily coffee trying for first time. Yummy…read more So Italian styled Or Sicilian styled.