Ristorante Bettola — Restaurant in Aci Castello

Food is ok-ish (but there are much better alternatives around at those prices), but the reason I’ll avoid this place is the abysmal quality of the service. Got there with a semi empty terrace and despite this it took an hour to be able to order our food - and only after one of us went to look for a waiter, that told us to be patient since he was “busy.” From the time we got there to the time we started having some food it took one hour and 40 minutes (again, with the restaurant empty). The service was so slow that when we ordered a bottle of white wine, after they delivered it it took so long for them to bring a bucket of ice that by then the wine had warmed up! And obviously, getting a check too was a painfully slow experience given the totally inattentive and borderline rude service. Baseline: avoid, since there is much better around (and with fresh fish rather than mostly...

I went with two other people dining at this amazing restaurant. We got a 1 course what was a sharing fish plate with gambas, fried baby octopus, normal octopus salad and fried calamares. The fish tasted very fresh, just amazing. As main course i had swordfish dumplings with cheese inside and that was also very amazing! Everything filled me very up, i could not eat anymore haha! The dessert was delicious i had tiramisu what was not the best decision because it was very heavy for my stomach after all the fish. The restaurant is located at a village square with an amazing view at a castle on the rocks. Overal i had a great experience, i recommend it to also tourist the menu is...

Food was really good but the owner was really rude and unpolite, he spoke in Italian, thinking we do not understand., we phoned to eat at mid-day and when we arrived he told us that we will be served at 12:30, I explained that we had booked.at mid day and he had accepted, I told him dont worry and we sat to have a bottle of wine, The owner told the waiter in Italian not to serve us food until 12:30 and I told him that we understand Italian and he should be ashamed to treat customers like that,...