Solari Vini Liquoir - SIRACUSA

We had the best of times at solari meeting and interacting with locals. They know their wines here friendly staff (busy so be prepared to wait a bit). The food platters they serve are not small! Would love to come back some day.

Great atmosphere and helpful staff with a good choice of wine. We also had a lovely plate of sardines to go with it not a great selection of food but make a nice change from the usual restaurant web site [hidden link] email [hidden email]

This guy was a punk! My mom and I stopped in so she could have a glass of wine before dinner (waiting for our restaurant to open). We also ordered an antipasto plate. The food was great, the wine was okay, but the service... really? The owner seemed to understand English, and we said we wanted to wait for an outdoor table. He ignored our request and sat us down and served us inside. Okay, could live with that... but when I did not order a wine, but ordered a water, he threw a fit! He could not stop throwing his arms around and speaking tersely at me in Sicilian. My mom ordered wine... I don't drink, so excuse the hell out of me. It was so rude! And then when we paid, we didn't have coins, only paper money, and again with the arms and yelling at us rudely in Sicilian. We were absolutely appalled by this man. His son was okay, but he was beyond rude. Cannot believe his place survives, except for the excellent olives and cheeses. Her wine tasted like moldy barrel. So there.

We enjoyed a couple or three glasses of good wine here together with a generous cheese and meats platter before deciding on a bottle to or two to buy. Will definitely seek this charming place out next time we are in Syracuse.

Spend 20 min in this wine bar seeking to try some of the local vins. The owner was preoccupied with people he knew and ignored us entirely. Left. Unfortunate! Looked like they had a decent selection, but the rudeness wasn't going to fly.