Our host gave us this recommendation for dinner and raved! about Mamma Santina . So we gave it a…read moretry of course! No doubt - it is a beautiful restaurant. But: make sure to have eaten before you go there and do have at least €300 in your pocket. The food was good but the portions mediocre. It was 4 of us in our party and ALL of us were still super hungry after we left. I picked up the check and was shocked - I paid about €290 for 4 starters, 3 entrees, a bottle of wine and two bottles of water. Would not recommend.

What a beautiful dinner all 20 of us had. We had dinner here as part of our Sicily tour and it was…read morean amazing experience and a very fun night. Everyone raved about the 3 courses that was prepared by the hotel chef and owner. We started with a caper/olive tapenade that was served with a light wafer cracker. The tapenade was savory and addicting. Could have eaten that all night. We actually asked for more! Then two kinds of pasta came out. First one was a spaghetti noodle with 14+ herbs as a sauce. Excellent dishes hard to describe but it was so extraordinary because of the combination of herbs and olive oil. The next pasta had a sauce composed of (tiny chopped up pieces) fish of sea bream and more herbs. Best pasta I've ever had that had fish as the foundation of the sauce. All of the herbs enhanced the fish instead of overpowering it. We had much discussion about how no one had ever had anything like these pasta dishes ever before. I loved them both, though I think the fish pasta edges past a tiny bit. The secondi course consisted of 3 types of fish plated beautifully. Fried swordfish on a bed of violet potatoes, a croquette style fish bites and a "meatball" made completely of fish that was outstanding. All 3 were stars to the palate! The dessert was their homemade orange ice cream. This was a perfect finale to a magical dinner. Highly recommend.