Trattoria Via Monte S. Agata — Restaurant in Catania

Food Poisoning and Bad to Below Average Food I don’t write a negative review about a place unless the experience has been very bad, thus, I think the fact that I’ve been up all night and day with food poisoning, constitutes as a good enough reason to warn future customers.

I visited this restaurant with my family. After a moment of sitting down to look at the menu, the owner/waiter took one of our menus and gave it to someone else.

When we told him we were ready to order, he stood there listening for half a second before he was distracted by passerbys and walked over to them to convince them to come into his restaurant. He came back and again whilst taking our order, took one of the menus we were looking at and gave it to someone else.

The food was below average, my mum got the €10 buffet (which allows you to fill the plate once). The food was cold, flavourless and underwhelming. The rest of the food we ordered was average.

Whilst customers ate outside, the very smug owner/waiter stood outside with another waiter and they rudely snickered together as they watched their guests. I felt uncomfortable and wanted to finish my plate as fast as I could so I could leave however my brother’s second course took a long while to come out.

To top it all off, I was awake all night with food poisoning after eating their minestrone, and I also haven’t been able to leave the house today.

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The Food was fantastic, and the service was wonderful! My card declined as I was paying, and after half an hour of trying to get it to work with my bank, I was told it was okay and that I should just leave. Even after offering all the cash I had left, they told me to keep it, because I might need it. I am very grateful for this generosity.

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