Le Grotte - BIANCAVILLA

High price, limited menu. beautiful inside, maybe only visit once for the volcanic experience. Great location, parking limited and strained

A wonderful little jewel of a place tucked neatly behind the church in the piazza! I called made reservations in Italian I 'm still learning! :D the night before. Just to be sure I had understood them they understood me, I also texted, in Italian by translator , to their mobile number. They promptly responded that yes, they had understood me my reservation was confirmed for 8pm and 5 people. Our GPS told us to make the right turn at the church in the main piazza of Biancavilla, but truly, it looked like a dead end so we kept going. MAKE THE RIGHT TURN! It isn 't a dead end there is parking on the street. We ended up parking across town walking all the way back. The restaurant is family owned run a very sweet lady her son...as I understood them. We had lovely conversation, in Italian, we enjoyed every moment of it! She showed us through the 'cave ' told us about how they had to excavate it out...quite interesting! The atmosphere of being in an actual cave, as a restaurant, is a unique experience. As you walk in, the bar is in front of you, the unisex WC is to the immediate left and stairs leading down to the main eating area are to the right. Once you go down the stairs the area that they excavated out boasts the cave ceiling/walls , it is a tri level of tables and another small bar. The menu is in Italian with English below it for the appetizers pizzas; there is more on the menu but only in Italian. We ordered salads the bruschetta no tomatoes but with a pesto instead so yummy for appetizers!! For dinner, one of us ordered pasta, one got a calzone the rest of us got pizza. We all loved our dishes! My pizza was half pistacchio and half local sheep cheese/sausage some other stuff IT WAS EXCELLENT!! the sheep cheese pizza is listed right below the pistacchio pizza is 'O Sor/Sar..... ' something. In any case, definitely try it!! It is also reasonably priced as well with the 5 of us, ordering appetizers, entrees and drinks, our bill was about 65 Euro. A great place to take family/friends to enjoy a different type of atmosphere, wonderful food friendly service! We will definitely go back! :D

I dined with a group here on a Sunday afternoon. We had the entire restaurant to ourselves which was nice since we had a number of young children with us. The dining was family style service of the menu turistica, which included an array of Sicilian antipasti such as meats, cheeses, bruschetta, olives, eggplant, and bread. Next came the primi piatti which were platters of two varieties of pasta. This was followed by the seconds piatti which was stuffed chicken, and then dolce or dessert of fruit and ice cream. I distinctly say ice cream because the texture was that of ice cream and not true gelato. The quality of the food was good depending of the various palates at the table. The pasta plates were delicious. While flavorful, the chicken could have more time spent de-feathering it as a number of quills were discovered. The service was great, but having eaten at countless Sicilian restaurants and agriturismos I was not expecting to be charged the full adult price for the toddlers in our party. I understand that the costs of the meal must be covered but the three toddlers (each 2 years or younger) were charged the full adult price for what amounted to an antipasti plate of bruschetta, cheese, and one mouthful of pasta; and the two 4 year olds ate even less and stopped grazing after the antipasti. Only the 4-year-olds even ate from a typical sized plate, so we expected to be charged for them. Most other establishments have a lower price for babies or at the very least count two children as one adult or have a lower set price for infants when tallying the bill. If I had known that no matter the amount eaten from each guest regardless of age, I would have requested the two untouched platters of pasta and one untouched platter of antipasti be wrapped and taken home. It's a lesson learned.

Bellissimo e suggestivo. Vorrei tornare a trascorrere un'altra serata... Lo consiglio a tutti... ottimo

Bella pizza cotta con un forno in pietra. Proprietario amichevole con i clienti e gentile. Ottima gestione al posto molto caratteristico scavato sulla roccia. A presto