A little bit way from the main touristy areas, but they have an Italian/English menu here and they…read morewere happy to serve us when we arrived at 7:40pm. Warm and comfortable with linen tablecloth and linen napkins and heavy silverware, they have a long wine list and we opted to just have the house red which was great. Beautiful bread basket, we got the baked mozzarella cheese to start. A good portion baked in oil with fresh garlic. It was awesome and there will be no vampires tonight. For mains, my friend chose a noodle dish with eggplant. Big portion, very nicely presented and I had a small bit that was excellent. I chose the buccatini with sardines and it was amazing. Fresh sardines, pesto, perfect noodles. Yummy. Our first "full" dinner in Palermo (last night was the food tour) and it's really looking like we'll have a great food fest here. [Review 12819 overall, 133 of 2020.]

We checked out this place on our first full day in Palermo - based on our B&B host's…read morerecommendation. We are so glad that we did. It was one of our best meals in Sicily. I especially liked their house antipasti (eggplant dishes). It was fantastic! How can eggplant be so good? Biondo is located right off the main shopping drag. They have a pizza shop around the corner too. Ordering in English was small struggle - so picking up a tiny bit of Italian would help for those that do not speak any.

Pretty extraordinary!!…read more We didn't have reservations but apparently got lucky someone cancelled. My party of 4 got seated right away. I'm a sucker for truffles and I noticed they had a lot of truffles on their menu. The special for the day was tortellini' with shaved white truffles. They brought a whole truffle and shaved a few grams in front of me. I posted a video of the experience. I then ordered the PIEDMONTESE FASSONA SIR FILLET, PURE AND BLACK TRUFFLE. It was cooked perfectly and the truffles had me salivating. Presentation is beautiful. Everything was perfect except the wait time. I normally expect restaurants in Europe to take 1 hour or two to get the food to the table but I noticed every table around us got their food 30 minutes before us, even if they were seated after. I guess that's why we need reservations next time. Pretty high end experience for a great price. Will recommend if in the area.

On a recommendation by the proprietor of "Homemade By Bruno", my family and I settled into this…read morewelcoming "cucina e bottega", run by twin brothers. The decor was "wine chic" modern, with ice buckets fabricated from wine boxes. The front of this establishment was a wine shop with Sicilian and other Italian wine selections as well as olive oil and other Sicilian delicacies. We received royal treatment from Marco, one of the twins, of crisply spoken English, cordiality, and expertise in creating a memorable dining experience. The food was scrumptious and professionally presented. Local seafood excellence along with meticulously prepared pastas, including "tenerumi" a true Sicilian vegetable speciality in pesto form. The stuffed zucchini flowers were almost too beautiful to eat. And, seafood arancini - magnifico!!Marco brought it all together with perfectly picked wine selections for our appetizers, then main courses. Of course, he chose varying drinking vessels to match the varietal served - a true maestro. This was an immensely grand dining experience that we hope to experience again in our next travels to this "Isola Bella"!!!

Food is good as always Service The staff is professional…read more Ambiance is lively, clean, with outdoor seating.

Disappointed with the service, we ordered a pizza came to us in 5 minutes then an antipasto 5…read moreminutes after that then 20 minutes later my dinner came. It's a shame since the food was very good

This was recommended by the woman in the gift shop at the palace. We worried it would be too…read moretouristy since it was so close. There were tourists in there. We started by sharing the baccala'in agrodolce. Deep Fried cod with red sweet onions, sweet sauce sauce and almonds. It was delicious. Freshly made, the salty fish and sweet onions complimented each other. This was a very good dish and I would recommend it. We each got a pasta. I got the ravioli stuffed with grouper served with fresh fish, green tomato, cloves, prawns, and Caciocavallo (cheese). My friends got the La Nostradamus pasta con le sarde (pasta with onions, wild fennel, raisins, pine nuts, anchovies, sardines, and tunetic). And Gamberi e Pepe Nero (linguini in a black pepper sauce, prawns, butter, mint and mullet dried eggs. My ravioli were good and the shrimp on top had a lot of fl or. The fish on top was a bit bland. He told us the oldest and best bar for cassata (separate review) They had WiFi and air conditioning Clean bathrooms too!

I had a very good diner, A great salad and spaghetti a la bolognese with white wine. Everything…read morewas excellent, and the service was friendly. A very good experience overall!

Three of us found this place based on a recommendation by the shop owner at Chrisafiflair. She did…read morenot steer us wrong. The outdoor seating was beautiful with a sloping wall of plants. But it was still hot even in the late evening and we opted for inside with some air conditioning. I loved the decor inside. The place was packed outside and filled up inside as we ate. We started with pasta dishes. I chose the tagliatelle "vedova allegra" which is the specialty of the house. Black pasta with crustaceans and pistachios. It was very good. My friends both got typical Sicilian dishes. One got the "Crimiso" with pine nuts raisins, and anchovies. The other got shrimp and sea urchins. Cassata Siciliana and the Cassatella di ricotta were our desserts. The cassata was heavenly light but both were good. The other was like a ravioli shape. We were treated to Marsala wine which sparked interesting conversation. Bathroom clean. Free WiFi. Air conditioning inside Only complaint- no hook in the bathroom for my purse.

This restaurt is very nice looking, food is great, sometimes I forget to take pictures because my…read morehunger overtakes my other senses, . Service - The staff was professional and friendly. Ambience - indoor and outdoor seating great place nice locality and area.

Tourist Trap! AVOID…read more It was packed, so we made the mistake of eating here. The food was not what we ordered and made us sick. Sad that I wasted a dinner in Palermo on this place.

You can do whatever you like. Yet consider this my encouragement to avoid this place…read more The out front salesman is friendly, warm and makes you feel welcome! They seat you...and then they disappear. Slow, slow, inattentive staff - even by Italian standards. Easily the worst plate of pasta I had in over 2 weeks straight of eating Italian pasta. Credit card minimum (higher than the bill) stated only as I tried to pay. The fact that you can get a meal for a low cost - and hot bread - earns it one star.

I think I should start this short review by saying that this place was highly recommended by a…read morenative of San Vito whose opinion I trust so this may have been a one off bad experience - even a good chef can have a bad night I guess but this was truly awful, particularly given that this was mid week in the quiet period of September. First the good points: you get picked and and dropped off gratis from the middle of San Vito at a time of your choosing; the restaurant has a lovely terrace and is very comfortably furnished in a modern European style and you will be offered freshly ground black pepper from an electric grinder by your charming waiter whose command of the English language put me to shame!!! However, it's a restaurant in Sicily so it's all about the food and in a town where you can eat like a king at the most humble of cafes this was a complete disappointment while also being an assault on the wallet. Thinking we where going to be in for the long haul we decided to share an antipasto and only order the primo (pasta or cous-cous) plate to begin with as we wanted time to let the food slip down before we turned our attention to the secondo (meat or fish) plate. We started with a mussels in a broad bean soup which was in fact more of a thick purree; bland, and heavily over seasoned, which was the first time this had occurred in any restaurant in a fortnight. We had survived all day on snackage in preparation for the feast so we were ravenous and managed to get it down without too much trouble, but this would normally have been left or sent back to the kitchen. However, worse was to come as we moved on to the pasta dish. I had the shellfish ravioli which was pretty tough, not at all velvety or smooth, and was again horribly over-seasoned; I had much better in a blatant tourist trap while waiting for a ferry in Trapani, and thought I was being a little exploited at EUR10 - how little did I know!! B actually fared much worse with her choice of the local classic, spaghetti with prawns and courgette: three or four small prawns and gloopy stuck together pasta which reminded me of bad school meals from the 70's. It lacked any of the fresh zesty flavour which has been a feature of all the other pasta dishes we've had here. Despite being starving this was just inedible and I could only shrug with amazement and lift the congealed mass of pasta with a fork when our affable waiter remarked that they only accepted empty plates!! Of course by now the second plate was out of the question so it was a quick dolce of the safest option on the menu another local classic, cassata which was fine and I suspect was supplied by a local cake shop as this seemed to be the case with most desserts in restaurants we tried in San Vito (and no bad thing in my opinion as these guys just love their dolce and are keen to source the best) All in all a truly disappointing evening and at almost £80E with a couple of apperitifs and a decent bottle of bianchi from Planeta, on this evidence I would strongly recommend that you stay in the centre of San Vito and frequent one of the many excellent trattorias or full blown restaurants which you can find all over town.