AMAZING seafood! Great open aired ambiance with belfry plates of fresh seafood. The batter on the…read moreBacala Polpette was incredible.

This place is MAGICAL…read more This is the most amazing place I have ever been to as a tourist in Sicily. Essentially Frutti di Mare da Nitto is a seafood market that also cooks for you if you want them to. This is essentially the tourist dream. I won't have known to come here if it wasn't for my Airbnb host, but I am so glad that I found it. Located one block from the beach, this shop is easily missed. In fact, I missed it twice because it essentially looks like seafood market. Who knew they would cook the fresh seafood for you?!? Most of the people that come here are expecting to purchase fresh seafood for home but during lunch time, some folding standing tables are set on the crowded sidewalk for people to eat at. Essentially, you can go in the store, point at the things you want them to cook for you, and they will prepare it and bring it out to you. Ugh, so amazing. This place is the perfect place for a foodie, seafood addict, basically anyone. With that said, they are not a restaurant. So if they run out of fresh seafood, they are out. When I was there, I had the fresh octopus salad, swordfish skewer, oysters, and these delicious small fishes marinated in chilly and olive oil. I wish my friend and I could eat more, but we couldn't. All in all, the bill was like 20 euros. Super affordable! Other possible dishes (from people watching) include squish ink pasta, mussels, sea urchins and more. Essentially, whatever you see in the market you can have them cook.

Absolutely DO NOT go here unless you want rushed and rude service. The food was okay but our server…read morecouldn't or wouldn't give us the time of day to answer questions about the menu (which was only in Italian) and refused to accommodate even the simplest request like a side of pasta to go with a plain piece of fish. We weren't offered coffee or dessert and he didn't check on us once after the sparse meal was delivered. When we left we requested a cab and the person they called charged us 20 euro for a 1.4 mile ride and the whole time tried to upsell us on trips to Mt etna and other things he could do for us. His girlfriend was in the front seat. The worst of the worst of Catania. AND for any vegan out there, forget about eating. They only serve fish, according to our server. Horrible.

Fresh fish! This is…read morethe place where my friend Guiseppe buys all his seafood. He sometimes even calls ahead and has them prepare his order ahead ot time. He use to live down the street from here so he has been a regular customer for decades. The service was very freindly and it's a tiny open store with no door! If you want fresh fish that is sliced and diced come here. We ordered 2 kilos of shrimp and it in less than 10 minutes they had deshelled and deviened it right in front of us. We also picked out some calamari and they sliced it up for us to take home and make fried calamari. MMM just thinking of our Sicilian dishes we made that day makes me hungry. My son wanted fish so he picked out a fish to take home too. We made risotto and added shrimp, parsley, garlic and homemade pomodoro sauce to top it off. Our fish was wrapped in foil with olive oil an salt and baked. Fried calamari were prepared in a light batter and fried...yummy treat to eat during lent! All dishes were simple with fresh ingredients from the market! Now that's the way to eat!

I had been asking my friend Giuseppe how the market was in downtown Catania, since I dare not…read moreventure into town alone, so he finally surprised me one day and off to the fish market we went. Bustling market with so many unusual fish and all sorts of displays. Shark, Swordfish, octopus, sea urchin, clams, shrimp, and too many fish to name. Kids enjoyed the displays but could hardly handle the smelly fishiness-honestly I think the Asian market in Vegas smells fishier-at least this was an open air market. If you buy the fish here, you are the butcher-so we came here just for pure enjoyment. We did buy some fresh parsley since we would be cooking some seafood (but we bought our fish elsewhere). Lots of fruit and veggie stands too. Open daily until 4 p.m. behind the Piazza Duomo.

Absolutely stunning place to visit when it is going in full force. So much seafood to choose from…read moreand its all fresh! Pretty cool to watch them butcher swordfish that probably weigh 500lbs. Smells great, lots of variety, great prices. Only downside is there are virtually no vendors that sell anything ready for consumption. If in Catania this is a must see though!

Good service, good people, the food is so tasty, fresh. I…read moreordered, Maccheroni alla Norma it was one of the best mail I eat.

We were looking for a place on the water to have lunch. Food was delicious. Service was excellent.read more

We would eat here again , so delicious seafood as fresh as fresh can be caught that dayread more

Service and presentation were excellent. We enjoyed the sunset over tropea beach. Amazing!! The raw…read moreseafood was beautiful. Wow. Followed by home made pasta and tuna steak. Desert also delicious. What a fantastic experience. Family run business with lots of love.

Great Seafood We were a little nervous about the mixed…read morereviews for this restaurant, but went anyway because it was close to our guesthouse and had been recommended by our host. The owner seemed very keen for us to eat the set menu/buffet but we weren't very hungry so we opted for the antipasti selection (which included lots of little seafood morsels and mussels) and a tagliolini allo scoglio (pasta in a seafood sauce). The food was amazing - we loved every single appetizer and the pasta was just delicious. It was all very reasonably priced too. If we were staying another night, we'd pay another visit to this restaurant and make sure that we arrived hungry!!

Went last night and now tonight! This is where all the locals are eating... The ambience is rustic…read more/ local but the food is out of this world. The seafood was swimming this morning. If you go, order the LOCAL wine. I mean this was made the next block over and the seafood was swimming in the bay (within view). Started with fried squid, then on to swordfish marinara. Oh frickin yes! What a local treat....

I have to admit that this is a unique location in an ally with an abundance of Italian flavour. it…read morewas an easy spot to stop and explore. The staff were friendly and we sat down to enjoy a wonderful plate of mussels and were looking forward to the main course. I ordered the seafood spaghetti and it was ok but lacking in flavour. my wife who grew up in a fishing community ordered the cod. I watched as she pushed the meal around her plate without hardly eating any of it. I asked what was wrong and she said it was inedible. still surprised I tried a piece and had to spit it out as if it were a grissled piece of beef. not one to make waves we informed our waitress that it was inedible. We were offered a second piece, however as there had been no service to our table in 15 minutes we turned down their offer. I paid for the meal that was uneaten and was still chastised by the staff insisting that it was the strong local flavour. had I not grown up eating cod she may have fooled us however I wouldn't eat here again if I had just been rescued from a shipwreck.