Ristorante Le Stranizze — Restaurant in Sciacca

We dined at Le Stranizze on our second night in Sciacca after being recommended the restaurant from our resort butler. The restaurant has a number of outdoor and indoor seats, but we opted for an outdoor table as the weather was nice and we loved seeing all of the activity outside in the heart of Sciacca.

We were greeted by the restaurant employees promptly at the time of our reservation who were all warm and nice, and our server came by a few minutes later after we were seated to introduce herself and answered any initial questions we had. The server also gave us an introduction to their restaurant who also has a winery about 15 minutes away from the restaurant (and all wines from their wine list at the restaurant come from their winery). We ordered a bottle of Magaria (22 euros) and the wine was an extremely good quality and we loved it!

For a starter, we ordered the Schiaffoni di Gargano (15 euros) and the pasta was also amazing and very fresh, and plenty big for the two of us to share.

For entrees, we ordered Beef filet (22 euros) and the Grilled pork pluma (20 euros) and both were also outstanding and we split the dishes so we both could try two different things.

For a dessert, we ordered the deconstructed cannoli which I think was around 5 euros and also was very outstanding and unique.

All food was out of this world and very memorable. It tasted liked we were dining at a Michelin starred dining establishment!

I highly recommend trying the restaurant if you're in the...

best atmosphere, the tables are placed in the alley and so you can watch people and the hustle and bustle of the city while dining. the greeting from the kitchen was thoughtful and exquisite. for our starter we chose caponata. the tasteful play with chocolate, vegetables, cheese and sauce was heavenly. probably the best preparation of this famous starter of our entire sicilian trip. the pasta dishes that followed were no less impressive. as i had to drive for another 2 hours after dinner, i was unfortunately unable to taste any wine. a must here. the service, on the other hand, was a little frosty. anyway, we would...

Esperienza cominciata malissimo con un'accoglienza a dir poco sgradevole, arriviamo verso le 21.15 senza prenotazione chiedendo un tavolo per 2 + un passeggino e ci viene detto dall'unica persona senza divisa,in camicia azzurra, che per la serata non c'era probabilmente speranza, forse dopo le 22 ma difficilmente quindi non ci chiede nemmeno se vogliamo aspettare o metterci in lista d'attesa. Mi allontano allora per dirlo a mia moglie, che decide di voler aspettare. Torniamo a chiedere di essere inseriti nella lista di attesa, parliamo con uno dei camerieri in divisa che ci dice che la lista è piena fino alle 22.45 e quindi non ci scrive neanche ma mentre siamo ancora lì un'altra coppia chiede della lista ed un altra cameriera lì scrive mettendo come orario le 22.00 e noto dal foglio che erano anche i primi di questa lista. A questo punto chiedo spiegazioni e la ragazza (unica un minimo gentile) cerca di rimediare offrendoci un tavolo che si stava liberando a breve..ma ancora il ragazzo con la camicia azzurra decide di dare il tavolo ad altre persone e lo stesso fa con altri 2 o 3 tavoli. Torna la ragazza a scusarsi e ci assicura un altro tavolo che finalmente arriverà verso le 22.10. Mai successo nulla del genere in anni che lavoro nel settore. Cibo ottimo, combinazioni di sapori azzeccatissimi e ottimo vino. Prezzo ottimo per la qualità: 90€ per 2 primi 2 secondi 1 dolce 1 amaro 2 calici di vino e acqua. Ottima cucina e ottimo vino. Da migliorare sicuramente...