Ristorante L'orologio — Restaurant in Taormina

The menu is only in Italian No English which is printed with 2 A4 papers. Drink is only wine card, No beers and soft drinks on list.

After we checked the menu, we want to order sparkling water, then they said they have problem to have it, only non sparkling water; instead of it, we decided to order draft beer 400ml(cost 6 euro) and aperitivo( cost 10 euro) which you can’t find them on the menu.

Then we saw the lady sit right next to us ordered 1 pizza, so we also want to have 2 pizza which also can’t be found on the menu…… the most funnest thing is after few minutes later, other clients also want to have pizza and waiter need to explain its not from their Restaurrant and only 5-6 flavor only( even waiting can’t describe details well in English, but at least he were trying).

At the end, we didn’t get the bread before the meal, but still need to pay for coperto 3euro for 2, I don’t know if it’s quite come on over here even clients get nothing before meal, or it’s just kind of service fee?

Anyway, the only one thing good may only the table...

Service was attentive and friendly but food was quite disappointing. The location and atmosphere was really nice so it was a surprise to find the restaurant empty on a Thursday night. We had grilled octopus (very generous portion and not bad), spaghetti with clams and mussels (terrible: extremely salty and without flavour, without cherry tomatoes that were listed on the menu), fried calamari (not bad) and grilled vegetables. I complained to the waiter about the pasta and they replaced it with swordfish pasta (with loads of cherry tomatoes this time). The pasta was a bit too al dente.

We really wanted to like this place because the server was so friendly and the atmosphere was great but it...

The restaurant has tables on a patio but also on the steps leading down to the Piazza 9th of April. The tables on the steps are very cute, the red and white themed seats are unique, and it's a pleasant place to eat with a beautiful view of the ocean and the Piazza.

The service is attentive. We had prosciutto and melon for an appetizer and it was very good. There were a lot of bees but the waiter did his best to get rid of them. We each just had a pasta, my wife spaghetti ragu and I had the pistachio shrimp salmon lasagna. We only ate about half of each entree which were not as tasty as we had hoped but I think it's at least partly because we weren't very hungry and the...