Maiòlica Sifnos — Restaurant in Municipality of Sifnos

After reading many positive reviews on this place from google, travel blogs, and various sites, we really believed this restaurant was going to have great food. We were sadly mistaken.

The octopus with hummus was alright, not good but not bad. The mackerel was not good. 5 tiny slices of fish 20+euro and was not fresh. Sauce was not good either. The lamb was recommended to me and I believed it was going to be an authentic Greek style lamb with the bone, etc. It was delivered in the shape of a sausage and tasted like sausage but wasn’t actually sausage. The sauce was like a barbecue sauce from a bottle. Not fresh or tasty and it was expensive for Sifnos. This was to be expected since it was on the beach, but still lol. Sifnos is known for their food and this place just wasn’t it. I tried my best to finish it but just couldn’t. The wine was alright but had some soap or something in the glass. They replaced it, but you know how Europe is, you ask for something and you’re given a strange stare.

The waiter was polite and the ambience was good, but the food just didn’t do it. Sifnos has so many great restaurants and it’s a shame this place just doesn’t cut it.

If you notice closely, all of the reviews are from 2024 summer season, so it is possible the new menu and chefs are no longer good. There are so many other places that are less expensive that have great...

The food is bland to decent and would have gotten the place a three star review on its own, but with our reservation messed up without any apology or explanation and lacking service, two stars is as much as they can get.

Our tomato salad was nice but our guacamole and shrimp appetiser was burned and the guacamole seemed to be avocado mixed with something like yoghurt, it was certainly without coriander and chili; our two main dishes were respectively plain in flavour and smaller than the appetiser (the squid ravioli) and the other very funky tasting (onglet beef) to the point where we sent it back after a bite each. We were not asked if we wanted anything else, they were not interested in hearing why we sent it back (after 3 out of 4 dishes were finished completely) and we were charged full price for it. We weren't expecting to not get charged or to get a different dish for free (though both are common in Greece), but we certainly didn't expect to be treated as if we had broken all their plates and the complete disinterest in why a customer would send back a dish is worrying.

Despite this being the third year we visit, this was really an experience we could have been without and the quality seems to have dropped significantly. There are far better places surrounding Maiòlica, I'd recommend picking one of...

We went to Maiòlica Sifnos 3 times — which, on vacation, is saying something. You know how it goes: you tell yourself, let’s keep exploring, let’s not repeat anything, but then you stumble into a place that rewires the whole notion of what dinner can be, and suddenly you’re scheming about how to rearrange the week so you can get back there.

The food was… well, bright is the word that comes to mind. Bright, but not in the simple lemon-zest sense — more like every dish carried a little surprise tucked inside it, waiting to show itself. You read the menu, think you know what’s coming, and then — nope — something better, stranger, more alive lands in front of you. And you sit there, grinning like a fool, because when food does that — exceeds expectation in a sly, almost playful way — it feels like generosity.

The staff matched that energy: kind, attentive, genuinely glad you were there. Not the scripted, polite kind of glad, but the kind that makes you feel you’ve joined a circle already in motion, and they’re just happy you pulled up a chair.

There were five of us, all with different tastes and travel quirks, and every single one walked out declaring it the best meal of the trip. Which tells you something: it wasn’t just good food. It was food that, for an hour or two, re-tuned the...