Osteria Del Campanile - MESSINA

To eat my favorite place in Messina! The pasta is great! And the starters too! The buffala was amazing like the ham. I would highly recommend the Ravioli, the Macharo Machnni alla Norma and the spaghetti alla vecchia signora!

The food quality quite fine. The most issue is that the waiter manner was not professional at all. They bring me the Coca Cola and just put it on the table with bottle, the young waiter walking in front of me all the time that I was eating my dinner which make me very uncomfortable. Anyway you can try it as last option in Messina

Looking for a traditional restaurant in Messina we thought we had found it. Situated a short walk from the main plaza, the menu looked authentic. Initially the service was good, we were shown to a table and given a menu and then told to check the QR code why do restaurants do this???? We ordered and meanwhile 3 or 4 more guests arrived. Our first course arrived some 20 minutes later, mussels in a tomato garlic jus. Very tasty and enough for us to share. The restaurant seemed to be a place for hanger ons to meet, two of the tables being occupied by non paying guests. The owners(? were chatting to friends whilst the one waiter was there to satisfy the paying guests needs. After 30/40 minutes the main arrived, though we ordered from the Primo menu. My partner’s spaghetti was undercooked, not al dente. My ravioli was thick pasta with a small filling in the middle. The sauce was bland. For 52 euros i was disappointed, though I have found restaurant prices over the last two weeks in Italy to be higher than last year and a lack of daily specials.

We ordered muscles as a started, which were superb in their rich tomato broth. Then we had two pasta dishes, the seafood ravioli and the sword fish spaghetti. They both were tasty enough and very filling but nothing memorable. The vegetable side dish was a bit sad. But we were happy with this home-style dinner. The ambiance is cosy and very quaint. A very friendly waiter. Thanknyou! It was so cute to watch him communicating with a very active child who was bored of sitting in one place.

Its my first time in Sicily.I came here for 1 week work. I didn't do my homework properly so I didn't know that all restsurants ae opening only between 7-8 pm.This restaurant was recommended to me by a local lady so I was walking 1.5 hour until I got here.I can truly recommend fab pizza,olives and a local wine which came all together with very reasonable price.