Filo d’esca seafood restaurant — Restaurant in Catania

SUPERBE! Very nice cozy restaurant almost behind the Teatro Massimo Bellini in the city centre. Ambience cared in the details. The service staff is very polite and very careful to the customer needs. The 'crudo misto' (row fish plate) is absolutely one of the most delicious I ever had. The combination with the selected fruit (fragola with thuna and ananas with sword fish) is definitely a great hit. The fish is rigorously fresh (as it has to be, btw). Besides of this 'battle horse' dish, the selected menu is very researched and of high quality: the fried pizzaccheri, the spaghettoni al nero di seppia (spaghettoni with cuttlefish) and the delicious ricciola are just an example (that we had the pleasure to taste out of the menu). The wine card is limited, but carefully and sapiently selected with delicious local wines perfectly pairing with the proposed menu offering up to five alternatives (for white wines), depending on the individual taste. Also carefully selected the choice of the desserts. The 'tortino semifreddo ai sette cioccolati' is a real pleasure for the palate. The passion for the high quality is tangible and definitely an asset of...

Location : very nice, in one of the streets in Catania with the Umbrellas. Seating : both outside and inside. We stayed outside, very comfortable, not on a Main Street so no noise. Inside seating had air conditioning.

Service : we were served by the owner of the restaurant, a lovely lady showing professionalism and efficacy of the highest standard. The table we had reserved was preprepared on arrival, the service was efficient, the recommendations of dishes fit exactly what we were looking for.

Food : the grilled octopus and fried seafood was of the highest quality, probably the best I’ve had on the Mediterranean. The fork and standard dinner knife slide in and out of the octopus easily, no need for a steak knife here, it’s super tender, really well done ++

In summary : we had a great time. 5/5 recommandation. We talked to the owner afterwards at the end of the meal and we were impressed with the passion she had for food and quality service. Brilliant experience and thank...

We ate here on Saturday night having made a reservation direct with the restaurant through Facebook. We wanted top class seafood and we got too class seafood. Absolutely divine. Our italian is limited, but we were given an English menu (the translations can be amusing) and picked our way through three courses. My husband chose the anchovy and chocolate arancino and I had three types of smoked fish for starters. My main was a prawn and scamp based risotto - warming and filling - whilst the hsuabnd had the salt cod main. We both had desserts - chocolate and pistachio based. All the food was amazing, the wine - All from Sicily- was very easy drinking (we had the sparkling wine from Nicosia) and the service was very polite and efficient. The bill came to a little over 100e. Our most expensive meal on the island, but it was worth it! Lovely night, lovely...