Il Delfino - Carta

Didyme

➤ Via Risorgimento 252, 98050, Santa Marina Salina, Sicilia Italia, SANTA MARINA SALINA, Italy

Carta • Sushi • Pizza • Asiatico • Messicano

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"the courses (our sushi, spaghetti bottarga, tuna fillet with rustic potatoes) were really good. the wine (maddalena fenech) delicious. we spent a couple of hours in a super cozy, quiet and very intimate environment. the service was great: discreet, timely and carefully at the service. to our request out of program of addition of the contour to the second, they have worried to let us have it immediately. we spent a really nice super recommended couple of hours!"

Mamma Santina

➤ Via Sanità, 40, 98050 Santa Marina Salina, Italy, SANTA MARINA SALINA

Carta • Sushi • Caffè • Asiatico • Messicano

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"24/6 We had lunch today in this well known establishment. I was with people very important to me and I was hoping for a really nice experience. Mamma Santina delivered it and more! In Salina most of the restaurant have abandoned the typical cuisine for a more daring (and expensive) approach, offering places that would pretend to be glamorous but most of the times fail to deliver what is promised and expected. Mamma Santina remains one of the few example of typical aeolian restaurant, a place where the hospitality is still sacred and the smiles of the people working there are truly genuine. Immediately you feel like at home, guests at a friend’s house more than customers. Mario (the owner and chef) and Eleonora will tempt you immediately with delicatessen which are results of years of passion, research and love for this job. We had a mix of courses: amongst the starters the parmigiana di alici was outstanding, I had squid with pasta as main course, octopus Salina style, tuna parmigiana which was delicious. Fresh capers’ salad was also incredibly tasty! There were a dozen more things that I would have liked to try, so choice wax really hard. Up to this point everything is normal: a nice place, excellent cuisine, all rare but not unique. What made this experience a triumph was what happened afterwards: they have chilli pepper plants all along the edge of the restaurant terrace and one of my guests love chili pepper. We discussed what could have been the strongest one and Eleonora introduced us to Thomas, an Indian gentleman that takes care of these plants. You could sense his love for them. He carefully chose one, picked it and prepared it for us, mincing it in a cream with onion, garlic and olive oil. My friend tried it and even the gentleman of the table next to us had a go at it. It was really powerful! We than had a lovely chat with our neighbours sipping an homemade citrus liqueur. We realised that this restaurant is framed inside an hotel so we asked to see one of the rooms and it was so lovely that my friends booked it for next year holiday. I could write rivers of words about this place but I won’t do it, I will simply suggest for you to experience it like we did, and ask yourself if your are dreaming or not. Well done to all the staff and in particular to Mario, Eleonora and Thomas for the lovey experience we have had."

La Vela

➤ Via Risorgimento 139, Santa Marina Salina, Italy, 98050, SANTA MARINA SALINA

Carta • Pizza • Caffè • Asiatico • Fast Food

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"I’ll start from the perks: food is great, and La Vela is arguably the best looking cafeteria in Santa Marina. However, their employees are literally the worst you can imagine to start your day. I was about to pay €3,50 with a debit card when the lady told me €5 was the minimum. However, no ATM are available around and I had no chance to get there with all my luggages. In Italian, she told me that “My owner would kill me knowing that I’m allowing this”. Telephone line was in use so the transaction could not go through the first time at which point she screams in front of all the people that was me not having money even when the receipts stated “No connection”. We attempt again, this time going through at which se tells me that I couldn’t be picky and wishing 10 ATMs here. I am an Italian whose own an house in Salina, and being treated this way is utterly unacceptable in 2018."

A'lumeredda

➤ Via San Lorenzo 11, 98050, Malfa, Italy

Carta • Kebab • Pizza • Messicano • Fast Food

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"We went here for my birthday a few days ago as it was only about 200 m from our bed and breakfast. We had wonderful pasta dishes, a rigatoni with a tomato sauce with swordfish and spaghetti with prawns and clams. The service was very good and the food excellent. A lovely quiet spot on a lovely patio surrounded by plants and trees. At the end of our meal we were given a free liquer! Seemed pretty good value for what we ate. We went again a few days later, against our normal holiday rule of only going to a restaurant once! Not so good the second time round because we had fish and side dishes and order too much! Expensive the second time rounder what we had. Recommend that you stick with the pasta dishes. Would go again but just eat the pasta!"

Malvasia

➤ Via Roma, 33, 98050, Malfa, Italy

Carta • Sushi • Pizza • Asiatico • Fast Food

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"Come mi capita ogni estate, mi sono trovato a dover andare sull’isola di Salina per lavoro , con la famiglia con me . Pur avendo i minuti contati mi sono ritagliato lo spazio per un pranzo veloce dagli amici Lorenzo e Stefano e non me ne sono pentito . Anzi! Antipasto di mare (caponata di spada ed insalata di polpo) di ottimo livello , innaffiata da un bianco di Salina alla temperatura ideale . Aura di tonno pescato in nottata semplicemente scottata alla griglia con una semplicissima insalata pomodoro e cipolla . Sapori semplici ma che ti rendono orgoglioso di essere siciliano . Il tutto condito ed impreziosito dalla simpatia contagiosa dei proprietari . Inarrivabile"