Ristorante Krokos — Restaurant in Agrigento

You could do better pretty easily in Agrigento. Though the alleyway on the stairs is cute and quaint, there are a few no-go tables: ours was next to a couple of air conditioner fan units (enclosed in a cage) from where we enjoyed a steady stream of eau de mould with our meal. Also, the stairs being steep meant the waiters (who are really nice, to be honest, and obviously fit) are running up and down and so service is often slow and careless (I asked for a frittura with only calamari but got a regular frittura with shrimp as well). The polpo was terrible: seriously inedible, gummy, insipid. The frittura was pretty good. The caponata with swordfish was oddly sweet, with too much vinegar taste (from the sott’aceti) and featured pitted olives from a can. Delicious lactose-free lemon sorbet. Ok wine selection, we had a solid half-bottle of Nero D’Avola....

Very nice looking restaurant. Came here in April and it was too cold inside the restaurant, had to sit with my jacket on during the entire dinner. Service was really fast, friendly and attentive. We ordered the Gnocchi with Almonds which was really really well cooked and very tasty. We also ordered the Cavatelli a la Norma as our first dish and it was nice but the pasta was undercooked. Then we ordered the Swordfish in pistachio crust and the Octopus with lemon potatoes. The swordfish was disappointing, it really missed some taste. The crust wasn’t crispy and the fish was a bit dry. The octopus was very nicely cooked and the taste on the mashed potatoes was really well done. The Almond Parfait was really one to recommend together with a...

Food was average, but the issue comes in the fact that when I asked if an appetizer plate had nuts the waiter was very dismissive and said that it didn't, I had told him I was allergic earlier and restated. I then noticed one of the meats on the plate was mortadella with pistachios and when I brought it up to the waiter that there were nuts he was super dismissive and argumentative saying then 'they told me there's no nuts and so there's no nuts!'. He later came out to apologize saying that there were nuts in the mortadella. Im just lucky I knew what mortadella was.

Be super cautious if you have allergies here, because you can't trust...