Ristorantino Pizzeria Leone

Janet B. • 2 reviews

October 12, 2024

9/10

Very tasty food in a busy, non touristy restaurant.

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Roland R. • 9 reviews

October 6, 2024

6.5/10

Good restaurant for locals. They really don't have any English-speaking staff and their menu is not in English. Difficult to communicate especially because they have an extensive menu.

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Steven B. • 3 reviews

May 11, 2024

6.5/10

Staff seemed disinterested and indifferent about making this dinner a special one for us. Wine recommendation missed the mark even though we said we wanted it to be impressed. It took interacting with three levels of staff to get our Fork discount.

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Matevž K. • 2 reviews

May 2, 2024

3.5/10

Expected more from a restaurant with such good ratings. Price was too high for what you get. Waited for over 20 minutes for the bill without knowing why

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Sam C. • 2 reviews

February 4, 2024

6/10

Palermo is full of great eats, this was ok/average. price point was also ok.

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HELENA C. • 4 reviews

December 25, 2023

9.5/10

Fabulous fish restaurant close to harbour. All courses, bar dessert, were fish and they were excellent. Would highly recommend.

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Beth J. • 12 reviews

September 7, 2023

10/10

Amazing food, some of the best I’ve ever eaten. Staff were great and very helpful. We chose to sit outside and the road was quite busy and quite noisy, not the restaurant’s fault at all as they did offer us inside too, but something to consider when deciding. Amazing amazing meal and I can’t wait to return!!

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Ristorantino Pizzeria Leone • Owner

Hi Beth Thank you for leaving us this nice review, see you very soon!

Emmanuel S. • 2 reviews

July 28, 2023

4/10

Place is clean, price are ok with a promotion for the quality. I don’t want to be upsetting but the pizzas felt very cheap (dough is ok, but the spiannata felt like cheap chorizo slices and tomato sauce was very liquid and not that much seasoned). Overall is ok but the difference between pictures on the menu and the dish served was disappointing ????

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Britt R. • 126 reviews

February 13, 2023

8.5/10

Nice and good food. And top service

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Ristorantino Pizzeria Leone • Owner

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Florian M. • 32 reviews

January 22, 2023

10/10

Outstanding food. We ordered pasta and pizza and loved it. We will definitely come back. Grazie !

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Ristorantino Pizzeria Leone • Owner

Thanks for your review. Come back to see us!

IEVGENII M. • 3 reviews

October 31, 2022

8/10

Found a restaurant 50 meters from the apartment. It was the last evening in Sicily before returning. Great restaurant with a good menu. The fish is taken out on a tray to the table, for selection and asked how it is cooked. We could not resist and took another pizza, which was also on top.

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Diana M. • 1 review

October 15, 2022

8/10

Food was delicious, but it seems to be bit overpriced . We ordered pasta, pizza vip and shrimp carpaccio, shrimps should be cleaned out properly from the spine side. Overall good

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STEPHEN H. • 13 reviews

October 7, 2022

6/10

Not very friendly. Felt like they were doing us a favour by serving us! Food was okay but the road it is on is hellishly busy and there was no aircon on inside which forced us onto the pavement!

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Rosa S. • 28 reviews

October 2, 2022

4.5/10

Palermo is home to many far tastier and more respectable restaurants, Please don't waste your time coming here. Quality is definitely poorer than advertised and service is barely scraping a pass. Love yourself today and look elsewhere. After waiting over 120 minutes, we received small bucket of questionable fries and a dish of pasta with basic cooking cream. No exaggerations here. We went to the restaurant knowing it had good reviews so we wanted to test it out. After having reserved it through The Fork we (3 guests) showed up in time the day after. The place is very cute but feels fairly small so it was pretty packed with only around 30 people, and our reserved table was not available as we arrived at the agreed time. Eventually, the waiter decided to put 2 tables together and let us sit down. We took a look at the online menu as they didn't have any paper ones and every dish appeared absolutely delicious. We ordered fries, panelle and crocchette as a starter, pasta with crab, rice with mushrooms (which were actually all out for the day as we learned afterwards, so we decided to go for "busiate dello chef" instead) and a fried mix of fish as second course. After waiting about 40 minutes at the table, the waiter brought two cups of sauces (mayo and ketchup) and the anticipation of our starters arriving was souring. 10, 20 further minutes pass... still nothing. When it became clear that this indication of arrival was in fact based on false hope alone, one of us decided to request that they provide us with some bread at least, since we were starving and somehow the sight of those little cups of sauce on the table only intensified the unabated appetite. With a short delay, the bread arrived and helped us last a further 20 minutes until finally our starter made its glorious entrance: a bucket of squished fries unceremoniously dumped next to crocchette and re-fried panelle in fish oil. Yes, you read it right: the fries had been re-fried in the same oil where fish was fried in previously. The smell was unmistakable, and random unidentified pieces of potentially calamari tentacles and shrimp antennas were lying unashamed beneath layers of squished fries. Probably, it wouldn't have been a welcome surprise for a vegetarian guest. We informed the waiters and to be fair to them they refunded the dish, which was decent. However, the long wait followed by that dish was tragic to say the least. Continuing on with the first course. We had to wait so long it felt like forever. At least a further 60 minutes. When it finally arrived, we were shocked at the simplicity of the dishes in front of us: the "busiate dello chef" which was supposed to be the signature dish of the restaurant, literally looked and tasted like (not fresh) pasta with cooking cream with some pistachio and cheese sprinkled on top. The fettuccine with crab were just indescribably low quality. The taste was gone off, the crab was not fresh and on top of that, the crab claws were laid there on the dish without any help whatsoever to actually open them up and eat what's inside. This dish alone was 22 euros by the way. Totally crazy for usual restaurants in Palermo. As a local, I felt ashamed and disappointed. After requesting some pincers to open them up (and dreadfully regretting it shortly after as the taste was, indeed, not fresh) we asked for the second course to be cancelled and just left the restaurant in a hurry, about 3 hours after we arrived. Thankfully we found a nice ice cream shop nearby and were able to "fix" the unfortunate experience we had at lunch, but I would never advise anyone to go through what we did that day. I hope this review was useful to someone and thank you for making it this far.

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Ristorantino Pizzeria Leone • Owner

Cara Rosa, non sa quanto piacere ci faccia sapere che una nostra connazionale parli l'inglese meglio dell'italiano. Sua madre ci ha riferito che vive all'esterno da poco tempo. Pertanto, anzitutto, ci complimentiamo con lei per questo. Capirà, tuttavia, che preferiamo risponderle nella nostra lingua madre che, siamo certi, non avrà dimenticato e saprà comprendere. Sua madre ci ha riferito dei ritardi e per questo, certamente, ci scusiamo. Non dovrebbe succedere ma il ristorante non è un'entità astratta, ma è composto da persone, pertanto talvolta può accadere. Per il resto, comprendiamo che la sua esperienza sia stata sicuramente toccata da un inizio sbagliato. Se sbagli ad abbottonare il primo bottone di una camicia, gli altri poi non saranno errori, ma solo la logica conseguenza del primo bottone sbagliato. Ad ogni modo, per dimostrarle la nostra attenzione, abbiamo inoltrato un omaggio a sua madre. Una seconda possibilità ci farebbe molto piacere e ci darebbe l'occasione di mostrarvi il lato migliore,

Choothum J. • 1 review

September 20, 2022

9/10

Very good service. The food is good.

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Angeliki N. • 79 reviews

September 5, 2022

8.5/10

Nice typical dishes and friendly staff

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Michael W. • 31 reviews

June 27, 2022

10/10

Lovely local place with great Pizza. One issue if eating outside is that it's quite close to a main road. You actually get used to it pretty quickly, but some people might not like rhe noise. The crab pasta we had as a starter was excellent - not a lot of crab, but some prawns, some very tasty sauce and perfectly cooked pasta. The aubergine starter was excellent, actually we've had this dish several times in different places and it's always very good -local ingredients i guess :) My catch of the day was nice soft fish, well grilled. Best value is the pizza, my wife had one of the vip pizzas with ham mozzarella and pistachios, it was huge, very tasty and the crust seemed to have a filling, very nice indeed. I only had one glass of wine, feudo arancio grillo - pretty good, worth a try. Thanks for a lovely meal

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Carla A. • 87 reviews

May 28, 2022

9.5/10

Very good restaurant...the pasta was incredible!

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Mark K. • 1 review

May 11, 2022

2/10

We had a reservation for 7 pm, showed up exactly at 7 pm, the place was simply closed. That’s it.

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Dalvin k. • 1 review

August 5, 2020

5/10

I ate the prawn pasta which was a little underwhelming, not much flavour. My boyfriend had a vegetarian pasta which was slightly better but not mind blowing.

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