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Al Giardino Restaurant
The restaurant in Taormina is located opposite the Giardino Trevelyan and naturally got its name from that! The owner Sebastiano Puglia turned out to have worked as an interpretor in several countries but was born in Taormina.
Needless to say, this restaurant became the favorite -and easy to come - place where Sebastiano served fresh fish or pasta of the day and other sisilian specialities explaining with enthousiasm how they were prepared, asked kitchen boys to make special deserts for me and offered at the end of the dinner some sisilian grappa on the house (he insisted that it was sisilian not italian!).
It looks a sophisticated restaurant but prises were reasonable not to mention the good extra service. The food was delicious, all antipastos home-made - even some vegetables were grown by Sebastiano in his garden and mixed with olive oil (yes, sisilian olive oil) and secret spice mixture to go in pasta sauces! Just to die for...almost!
