Taormina Restaurants

We were refered to this restaurant by our hotel staff.

It is a very cozy homelike restaurant (sort of a boushon style of Lyon in France ) with a little display of fresh fish outside by the entrance. While we ate we could watch how the chief prepares our food. We chose fresh local fish from the displayand also ordered pasta for everybody. It was our fist meal in Sicily . We found out that it is too much to eat, especially in an evening after 7. But we are healthy eaters; you may consider it is just enough because everything in Sicily is soooooo tasty, soooo fresh! I could not resist to overeat!

Everything was very good, simple and tasty. The wine was a little overpriced, I was not happy about the quality of that specific bottle. Fish was very expensive, but since it was our first meal, I did not know how to react to that bill.

Now I do understand that Taormina is the most expensive town of all I visited. Everything is expensive there.

Grotta Azzura has nice selection of dishes and pasta is just great there.

This was a happy surprise. The door is on the main thoroghfare in Taormina and we simply took a chance. Well, it was a lot of fun...good food and a delightful staff! The host and desk guy were very gay (but the restaurant isn't) and very upbeat and attentive. Judging from the families and married couples all over the place, I don't think it was an issue. In the warmer weather try for a table in the garden...fantastic views over the Ionian Sea and to Mt. Etna. Seafood specialties and pizza on the menu.

This is rated as one the best places to eat in Taormina and I can see why. Even though we were only staying 4 nights in Taormina we ate here twice - and there is no shortage of other places. The food was really of the highest quality and the service was impeccable. It is advisable to book in advance to secure a table close to the window so that you can enjoy the panoramic view while you dine.

Favorite Dish: The fillet of beef in thin pastry with procini mushrooms and parmesan cheese served in a rich red wine sauce. Top quality meat cooked perfectly, a very tasty dish.

Whilst I cannot fault the food, you MUST get a price for fish and seafood before they cook it for you if you are to avoid a nasty shock.

I tried asking 3 times for the price and 3 times they refused to tell me. I then told myself it cannot be that expensive, but I was wrong!

If you cannot get a price beforehand, walk out of the restaurant.

This is a nice option to all the italian restaurants in Taormina, although they also have pizza. First day we eat there, the food was great and we were happy, but the next day I was very disappointed. I ordered fajitas with chicken, and got a plate with lots of salty chicken with cheese and peppers (paprika), and only ONE small fajita (taco) to eat with it. This is NOT the way to serve fajitaS!! Where are the fajitas? And we did'n bother to complain, because then the italians typically would say: "Non capisco". But

Favorite Dish: Order the taco vegeratian - and you will be happy.

This is a RistoPub (restaurant/pub), and it's very expensive compared to what you get. I ordered a omelet which were very small and did'nt taste anything. My partner had a piadina, which were hard as stone, and not very tasteful. He could barely eat it. STAY AWAY from this place. The only nice thing was the interior.

A bar, pasticceria, gelateria, tavola calda, produzione propria of the finest desserts. Saint Honore is a name for bakery shops throughout the world. This Saint Honore sits on the main street of Taormina and as the town itself is a storybook local, so is the Saint Honore. It fulfills the pangs of thirst and hunger as well as quelling the sweet tooth. In the tiny space of sitting, due to the enormous display cases filled with the foods and desserts of Sicily, one can partake of many different tastes. Try to get a table, so that you can enjoy the flavors in a relaxed manner over an espresso.

Favorite Dish: What is being in Sicily without having a cannoli. These little gems of rolled pastry filled with riccotta cheese that has a flavoring from amaretto to vanilla, mixed with pieces of nuts, fruit, or chocolate served plain or coated in powered sugar or chocolate is pastry heaven.

When dining in Taormina, look for a restaurant that has an outside patio with table that have a view of the sea below. The meal will seem ten times better due to the rush of goodfeel the sea and the climbing hills to where you sit befall your senses. La Buca is such a place and well worth waiting for a table by the wall outside. The ambience of smiling faces at all the tables, filled with laughter and hearts full of song, keeps this restaurant in good standing. The dishes of sicily are the main attraction, even if the view gets a 5-star review. Add a good Sicilian wine and you too will be enamored. The best review is to say, "I am returning".

Favorite Dish: Involtini is a Sicilian specialty and should be tried. Pieces of veal rolled with one of many foods stuffed inside, from cheeses to hams, stuck four to a stick placed in a fryng pan dripping with hot olive oil and cooked to a golden brown perfection. Once you have tasted the flavors and commented on the ease in which your mouth succumbed to the delicate dish, you are hooked. Not found in too many restaurants outside of Sicily.