Ristorante Il Ciclope — Restaurant in Taormina

A week ago or so I went with some friends to this restaurant. We looked at the menu from the outside along with the outside terrace on the Main Street in Taormina. The food looked good and specialised in seafood and so we expected some really good pasta to accompany this. We were however shocked to taste the complete opposite. Firstly the service was awful it took us 20 minutes for someone to come over and order any drinks even with us trying to wave the waiter down. It then took us even longer to order any food, as the waiters seemed to pay no interests in keeping us entertained. One of my friends then ordered a bruschetta dish which given he is no professional chef was extremely bland and we had made a much better version the previous night. Following this we then received our primi platti. And I can honestly say that it was the worst pasta dish I had ever had. It looked awful there was hardly any aubergine or swordfish in the dish. And then the sauce was extremely thin and not flavourful. I would never recommend this and I hope to never have to see this...

WORST EXPERIENCE I'VE EVER HAD

I travelled in Taormina and passed by this restaurant just now. （Sep.28th 7:50PM）We have four people. A male elder waiter gave us a table near the performance seat. It was too noisy and we said we would like to wait for another table. We were the first waiting there and others were coming after us. However, the funny things happened. When a table was ready, the waiter and the waitress gave the table to other people coming after us. I told them we were the first in the line, and they replied with Italian instead of English. VERY IMPOLITE. It was really rediculous. I went to different countries and restaurants all over the world. NEVER met a restaurant like this. You don't know come first, serve first？？？Because we are not Italian, so we were treated like this with a discrimination？？？ . Suggest you should let your waiters get trained first. Taormina is a city full of tourists. Discrimination sucks. If you don't know who come first, you can see the monitor of...

Below average food, lack of basic service and very expensive, especially bad if you are non Italian speaking. After being given a table we ended up getting our own menus and place was not busy. Ordered a drink each and water which ended up costing 2x more than anywhere else we've been and a meal each which came out much smaller than the Italian speaking tables seemed to be getting when ordering the same. No bread or condiments which were served to others. Small amount of food was tasteless and basic. Charged E56 (2 people) and walked away hungry. English speaking couple next to us ended up leaving without eating as their order didn't arrive despite the Italian table who ordered after them being served their food. Avoid like the plague to prevent severe disappointment as we were only here on a day trip. Unfortunate this place has the attitude they do toward non Italian speakers as everywhere else we've eaten in Italy over 3 weeks has...