Lido Fontane Bianche — Restaurant in Syracuse

It's 13:20 on September the 4th and we decide to have lunch at this place after reading a couple of good reviews. When we get to the entrance we notice, almost immediately, that the waiter was anything but friendly but I thought "I can live with this". We order 8 courses of which 2 were salads. The restaurant was not particularly busy but despite this, the wait was long and, because of the heat, painful. After one hour, the waiter shows up with the two salads saying "Get the salads, for now" and wasn't sure what 'for now' meant for him. After something like half hour, my wife asks him why he did not tell us that we could wait for a long time when we asked for a table; the answer it's astonishing "if I had told you that, you would have walked away."... speechless... After 1 hour and 40 minutes of pure agony and hunger, we finally get the rest of the courses which weren't actually that bad, reason why this review is 2 out of 5,...

The beach view is way nicer than some of the other water views in the area. Clear , less to nothing seaweed, nice sandy beach. Overall a busier beach and we are here during off season.

This lido is surrounded by beach clubs. Beach front itself is only about 3 rows of beach chairs so you will be very close to water with great access.

Washrooms, rinse shower and change rooms all behind the beach chairs. Expect people walking through every opening between beach chairs to access to these. Not just people paying for the lido but public. (Just an observation if your a person who prefers more personal space and your own hut).

Washrooms are in good shape, good light and spacious.

Beach umbrellas will provide enough shade for two, if more then two people recommend getting more. Paid 50 euro for two sets of chairs + umbrella ( 4...

Arrived at this Place at almost 4 pm. More than half of the umbrellas were empty. I asked the staff if we could rent one and to my surprise, they said everything was full. I tried to understand how and the guy said they were booked for the whole summer. I tried to ask if I could rent an umbrella for the next day and he said there is no booking police. That I should arrive at 8 and by 8.30 everything would be full. Well, if it is not possible to book how come everything was already booked? Maybe it was the staff poor english but the fact is that they own a very large portion of the beach and very few People could use it. Unbelievable. I have been in Sicily for 10 days already and this was the first time something like this happened to us. A beautiful beach but very...