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"!!!

Delightful in every single way! While visiting Mondello (a suburb of Palermo) in the off season, we…read morewere struggling to find a decent place to eat that was open. We were beyond thrilled to be seated at L'Angolo when we wandered in at 8pm on a Sunday in February. What followed was some of the most attentive service and delicious, creative seafood we've experienced in Italy! The charming waiter had lived and worked in Miami for several years and was happy to chat with us in English, explaining the menu, making wine and food recommendations, explaining the history and origins of their Sicilian dishes... Did you know, for instance, that caponata takes its name from "capone," Italian for mahi-mahi because this "poor man's" dish was traditionally made with that fish which is ample and inexpensive in Sicily? We had their version with swordfish that was just out of this world! On our waiter's recommendation, we also started with the fried baby squid (my favorite!!) and sardine balls. My husband and I shared two pastas which they graciously plated individually/in half portions for each of us. The real win of the night though came when I told them that my mother in law didn't eat seafood. Any other restaurant would have scoffed at us and maybe brought a plate of noddles with olive oil. However, our waiter asked what she wanted, and when she declared Alfredo Fettucini (a dish known only in America), he didn't bat an eye. Instead, he took her request to the kitchen and brought out, what I must admit, was a damn good plate of pasta. Sadly, we were too full for dessert, even though the promise of housemaid tiramisu, panna cotta, etc. was so tempting. We'll just call our amazing bottle of Sicilian D'Avola Nero our dessert and be sure to save room next time!

Literally one of the worst experiences ever. Everything went wrong right from the very beginning…read more We got there around 7 PM for a light dinner, two adults and two kids. We ordered a bottle of warm still water, pasta with cheese for a kid, salmon with fries, swordfish with side salad, sardine meatballs and a dessert. They got us a bottle of ice cold water about 10 mins later and then when I finally caught one of the waiters and asked him to replace it with warm one he said he didnt understand me ( which is right as they speak almost no English), and he asked me if i have opened it.........) Then finally about 15 minutes later we had the water. About 20 more minutes - and we finally had sardine meatballs and pasta. With NO cheese! I had to remind them to get us the cheese and they brought some cheapest parmesan in a can. Sardine balls were eatable but Im never ordering it again. We kept waiting and waiting.. saw waters come in with a few packs of potatoes ( it felt like they had no potatoes thats why we had to wait for the side fries). then about 25 mins later we were finally served the fish. Salmon was ok, not the best still but swardfish was just disgusting. Dry, tasteless and overcooked. They offered no oil not vinegar for what they called salad ( they obviously dont know what salad really is though) and i had to ask for it. Overall we sent over an hour just waiting there. They didnt even ask us if we were happy with it, they didnt seem to care at all. I felt the owners who were there as well werent really friendly and were rather rude with some other people. It was my first and only negative experience at the restaurant in Mondello and im never comign there again. Avoid.

DA Peppino was recommended to us by the front desk at our hotel. We had just arrived in Italy and…read morethis was essentially our first meal in the country. We were jet lagged and a bit dazed so we took their word for it that it was good and took a cab down to Mondello. The restaurant is known for its seafood and we saw tables full of hungry families ordering platters of different types of fish and seafood. We also noticed takes of sea urchin which we ordered as well as pasta with sea urchin, sardine meatballs (polpette di sarde), and a pizza. The food was fine though not the mind blowing pasta experience we were anticipating from our first meal in Italy. The service was courteous and very patient, all the servers hearing out our stumbling Italian and even giving recommendations on both food and wine. Prices are competitive to nearby establishments.

So bad on all accounts, a tourist trap at its best…read more Food is mediocre, service just ignores you. Best things about this place are wine and bread, anything else that we had (shrimp cocktail, grilled swordfish and lobster pasta) was just awful. Just don't bother to come here.

As an American tourist in Sicily, this place is a no-go... To start, we were seated and immediately…read moreasked what we wanted to drink by the pushy wait staff. Asked what wine the waiter recommended and he just recommemded the most expensive one on the menu. Then we watched three of the waiters berated 2 old ladies walking down the side walk. 3/4 of us then received our drinks and we ordered our starters and pasta. Our waiter insisted one of the starter dishes we ordered (Calamari) wouldn't be good unless we ordered a specific other starter (fried sardines)...?? Everything we ordered was a back and forth barter as the waiter tried to upsell us and we tried to explain through the language barrier that we just wanted to order a normal dish! All of a sudden our main dishes came out (before the starters) and the spaghetti with shrimp and clams turned out to be shrimp and clamshells... Only 3 of the clams actually had the meat in them... You can't make that up (see pic of clams). Then (after we reminded them) the fourth drink came, a prosecco bellini was ordered (6 euro) and a harder bellini (14 euro) was brought out... The reason I give two stars and not one was that the drinks, ravioli, and swordfish was actually pretty good. The night was just ruined by bad service. Our starter eventually came out while we were paying our bill (what a joke)... We just sent it back. Never going back to this place and you shouldn't either

I came back to eat here. Several of the same appetizers were ordered such as the calamari (see…read moreprevious review), seafood salad, and pizza diavola. The octopus was chewier than last time and not as good. Regarding the pizza diavola, it was just not as spicy. There did not seem to be enough spicy oil incorporated. It was still good, but just not as excellent when I had it earlier. I also had Pizza Napoli and Pizza Margherita. The Napoli consisted of tomato sauce, mozzarella, and anchovies. The anchovy taste was not too overpowering, which was pleasant. The Margherita was a traditional one. Again, cooked to perfection with plenty of flavor. For an entrée, I ordered the ravioli with grouper. I actually wanted this last time, but it was not available. It was a ravioli stuffed with grouper in a cream sauce. At first bite, I thought it was a little odd, but as I continued to eat, it grew on me. The sauce was very heavy, but tasty and the ravioli was jam packed with the grouper. There were about 8 raviolis present.