Il Borgo di Federico — Restaurant in Catania

DO NOT GO THERE! We ordered: Spaghetti alla carbonara: terrible, as many opinions before mentioned, scrambled eggs, with no taste, salt nor peper, no pecorino or any cheese. I got separate grano cheese in a glass lol. Pork roll with becon and cheddar: pork was just sad and soaking in fat, becon was replaced with slices of eggplant and cheddar was not existant. Aperol Spritz: wrong proportions, very little aperol, mostly water. Fries: any fast food has better fries than them. I feel negative about this and sorry that nothing we ordered was matching to price. Prices are low, but the quality is even lower. Service is ok, but non Italian speakers may have trouble communicating with the staff, because out of 4 waitresses only 1 understood English. Lastly I would like to share a story from this so called "restaurant". True story, observed by me. I was sitting, contemplaiting sad choices I made ordering food at Il Borgo di Fedrico. Suddenly, a pigeon flew down from the sky and sat at the edge of our table. It looked at our plates filled with wannabe carbonara, pretending to be pork roll and salty fries. I did not move. I thought, go on buddy, enjoy your free meal. The pigeon looked at me and after a second or two took off. It landed on the sidewalk 2 meteres away and started picking food from...

WORST CARBONARA EVER !!!

Not a bad place to have your italian lunch in Catania, but I was very much dissapointed by having scrambled egg pasta, which was supposed to be carbonara.

Atmosphere is ok. I visited this place on sunday lunch, and the entire restaurant was filled by families after their sunday service.

But the food wasn't. Euhm.. yes. I can't say every dishes were bad.

The salchicha and pistachio meatball was ok. Pistachio cream inside the meatball was a new experience, which my wife told me that she wouldn't try that kind of new dish, but was good enough to finish it first.

The seafood fry platter was ok. But there were too many squids in it. I thought it was fried squid, which is in the menu, but yes it also had one shrimp. One shrimp!

Finally, scrambled egg pasta, a.k.a. carbonara.

I guess I won't need any more comments about this matter. I attached two pictures of carbonara, no I have to use the right name. Let's to it again. You can see two pictures of scrambled egg pasta, and as you can imagine, it wasn't the carbonara I ordered.

And guess what. They were serving only 3 pastas for lunch, and this was the disastrous result I had to face. Maybe during lunch time they don't hire Italian...

Poor quality food and chaotic service, easily the worst of our week-long trip. We thought the good reviews and busyness would be a guarantee of good quality but we were wrong.

The appetizers were abysmal, think supermarket-value brand frozen party food that had been cooked badly. McDonalds do better processed mozzarella balls and croquettes than these guys.

The pasta was not good, the sauce was not freshly made and there was about 3 pieces of aubergine it in. I didn't finish it.

The meat dishes were not much better, rubbery and flavourless.

Worst of all the service was chaotic, we were being served by about five different staff members, each of whom had no idea what we'd ordered, kept trying to take our order. We waited a very very long time for any dish to come out, despite the restaurant not being even half full and what seemed like loads of waiters just standing around waiting for something to do, who annoyingly tried to clear plates every second you stopped eating. It felt a bit like harassment.

There are far, far better restaurants in Catania for...