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.

We wandered out of the port looking for coffee and pastries. We passed up a few shops before this…read moreone grabbed our attention. The service was good, coffee was fine and the pastries were acceptable. My wife said the cappuccino was better than what she had in Turkey but not as good as what we sampled in Venice. Outdoor seating available with good shade enhances the people watching. Very little English spoken but simple to place an order.

Started out so great, but went downhill fast. We went to this really cute waterfront restaurant in…read morethe beautiful Ortigia and sat on their patio facing the sunset. We ordered cocktails and vegetarian arancini and they were really good. Then we decided to stay for dinner...and everything fell apart. We ordered the house salad (fennel/red onion) and they brought a buffalo mozzarella. We explained that we ordered the house salad, not that, and they brought the correct one. Then we ordered off the vegetarian section, one truffle pizza and one cheese ravioli. The restaurant seemed to be emptying out, (at 5:30pm) and we asked if they could turn one of the outdoor heaters on for us, and they said "no, bc we are closing soon". We were understanding, but cold. Then the pizza comes out...it has shellfish all over it. We asked the waitress to come over, and explain that we ordered a truffle pizza off the vegetarian menu, and she says "oh yeah! That's fish, not meat!" And we were like "ma'am, we def ordered off the vegetarian section, and I held up the menu and pointed to the items, for fear that my Italian was unintelligible. She nodded, and acted like we made a mistake but she would make a new pizza to be nice. We started getting a little worried at this point, as we were now the last people there. We had gotten two wrong dishes delivered to our table, and were still waiting for the ravioli. So, here comes the ravioli...I take a bite and I'm certain I'm eating meat. I call the waitress over, and she says "yes, wild boar raviolis! What you ordered!" Now, this waitress has watched us hold the menu up to order, ask For vegetarian item after vegetarian item, and send back a pizza for having fish on it...wth did she think we wanted with wild boar meat? I've been a vegetarian for 35 years, and travelled literally all around the world, and never had such "confusion" about what "meat " was. So, my bf was just like nevermind, let's just leave, but the waitress was like "no, no, we will fix it" and so we sat out in the cold alone on the patio for another 20 min waiting for the cheese ravioli we ordered. The replacement pizza never arrived. Our bill was 120euros. Really disappointed and the whole thing was awkward as hell.

Beautiful location on the water and amazing food! The pastas we ordered were all delicious, the…read moreservers were very friendly and spoke English, and of course the view is everything here. Definitely take the walk along the water from the main road to grab a seat, as this is an upscale spot, and you can tell all the ingredients are very fresh. One of the BEST restaurants we ate at when visiting all of Sicily!

Nice place for coffee, granita and Sicilian desserts. Really like it. Highly recommended, I will…read morereturn again.

A bakery, a legend…read more The first in the world to commercialise their products which are sweetened with a tree resin (manna). Manna ads a special taste to baked products (panettone plum cakes), it does not only sweeten. Fiasconaro produces many other things, like bread chocolate and pistachio spreads, and their ice cream, especially pistachio, is legendary. A visit to this place is a must if you come to this part of the world.

This place is ok but the bakery/gelato shop across the street is far superior. They don't have a…read morelisting on yelp but check them out if you have a chance. Their gelato tasted far more natural and pure, less like flavors and more like the actual source ingredients.