Osteria Santa Cecilia — Restaurant in Palermo

Addendum: Today I was served the worst tiramisu ever: neither creamy nor creamy or even moist - a piece of dry cake instead.

And the lasagne before that: far too big and unfortunately also very dry - with too much pasta and not enough meat. A very disappointing experience, without any culinary pleasure - good thing there's Lidl round the corner. I quickly bought some Greek yoghurt there and some fresh berries at the market so that my meal of the day didn't end in disaster.

22 euros - money thrown away. What a shame. 30.04.25

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A charming osteria with very nice service: attentive, they don't take everything away from the table straight away, but ask if you'd like to have some more bread?

I opted for jacket potatoes and a salad.

The food at the other tables looked very good.

The wine by the glass is delicious and reasonably priced. There are a lot of Italians here as guests and I will be happy to come back.

Edit: 02.12.24

If you only want to drink a glass of wine here, you can also do so at lunchtime. However, there are no olives, but nuts.

I made the mistake of ordering some Pommes frites to nibble on.

They were good too, and not deep-fried in rancid fat.

However, the fact that you then pay 5 euros plus 2 euros Coperto, i.e. 7 euros, for them - that annoyed me.

So I nibbled on 7 small pommes frites and paid 1 euro for each one ;-).

As an osteria, I would rather do without Coperto in this case than a regular guest... ...I probably won't go there again.

I experience the hospitality and generosity of Italian restaurants outside of Italy as being so much greater than in Italy itself.

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Looks very inviting and we saw the outside area almost full which drew us in. But, unfortunately the worst meal we have ever experienced on vacation. Anaemic sad looking salad, which looked like it was made by a beginner. No thought or care in it what so ever and bland, basic. The fried seafood dish was rubbery stale and chewy, we ate it what we could to be polite and then after went to a great place to please our appetite. Nice music, Service was nice, but we unfortunately felt we couldn't speak up about the food. Mainly based on not getting a check in during or after our meal, e.g 'was / is everything okay' I make a far better tasty salad on a daily basis.

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