SANTA FLAVIA
Tanit

Tanit

Via Dante Alighieri 2, 90017, Santa Flavia, Sicilia Italia, SANTA FLAVIA, Italy

Pizza • Pasta • Porta Via • Frutti Di Mare


"Seven of us stayed at a hotel a few minutes drive from this restaurant. We are big foodies and really appreciate good quality, well cooked food and spend time researching and carefully selecting restaurants for lunch and dinner wherever we go in the world. We selected Tanit based on the great reviews and interesting menu. We should not have bothered! The owner, who apparently spent couple of years working in London, has obviously not picked up basic customer service skills from her time in the U.K. She appeared to show interest in our trip and offered to give us a contact number for a place we showed interest in. That was the last time we saw her at our table. We waited for very long time for our food (45 minutes for a slice of watermelon and coffees) and the table next to us, clearly local intalians, were served first even though they ordered after we did. No one asked us if we wanted another drink for an hour and we had to go and look for a waiter to order more water (it was steaming hot outside and our children were very thirsty). Compared to other restaurants in the area, this was really mediocre at best. The seafood pasta had two or three minuscule (clearly previously frozen) prawns and no more than five clams. My husband's steak (the most expensive dish on the meat menu) was practically inedible: very chewy and tasted of nothing. He left it all on the plate and none of the waiters bothered to enquire why he hasn't touched it. The owner was busy chatting to other tables occupied by those who would clearly come back and offer her repeat business, such as the local Italians. There are plenty of great restaurants around Santa Flavia and nearby Bagheria, many of them actually cheaper than this place. We obviously won't go back to a restaurant where the food is not worth chewing and the service one of the worst we have experienced in the world."