Carizzi D'Amuri

Chris T. • 4 reviews

May 12, 2025

10/10

Great food, fantastic service. Good advice with wine paring. Would recommend

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Louise B. • 9 reviews

April 28, 2025

10/10

The food was a wonderful creative expression of Sicilian ingredients. Portion sizes were perfect for us. The service was exceptional, very warm, friendly and efficient

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Elizabeth T. • 3 reviews

April 21, 2025

10/10

This restaurant deserves 5 stars! It delivers in the quality of the food, the kindness of the staff, the ambiance of the interior, and the enjoyable background music. They have created a dining “experience” that few restaurants ever achieve. It has an intimate, cozy feeling. Be sure to make a reservation as it has limited seating. Truly one of the best.

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Aarnout H. • 7 reviews

April 3, 2025

9.5/10

We had a lovely and long evening. Chatting over a good dinner and a bottle of wine. The staff enjoyed that we enjoyed it. They were very welcoming. Artichoc something as a starter and an excellent pasta as a main. Tiramisu also much above average. The neighbourhood is nice. We passed unplanned a busy beer and dance café after dinner with local youth and no tourists and finished the evening there.

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Neil F. • 1 review

March 17, 2025

10/10

Exceptional food and service with stylish decor

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Kirill T. • 4 reviews

October 19, 2024

10/10

Fantastic food and service! Discovered Etna sparkling wine. Indeed, has to visit!

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Antonio L. • 1 review

October 14, 2024

10/10

Very nice food and nice personal service a lot done by the owner him self who’s obviously passionate about his work. Lovely!

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Jane H. • 1 review

September 25, 2024

9.5/10

The attentive & friendly service from the staff and the quality of the food was exceptional. The staff explained various dishes for us and take pride in adding their own modern difference to the Sicilian traditional dishes. They also suggested Sicilian Prosecco & wine to suit our tastes. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal there.

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Nicole S. • 1 review

September 4, 2024

9.5/10

Wonderful and delicious meal - they were very passionate about the food and explained all the ingredients and how if was made

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Robert B. • 5 reviews

July 4, 2024

7.5/10

The service was excellent. The ambiance was nice, i enjoyed the music playing. Not much seafood for a restaurant that touts itself as a seafood restaurant. Mostly tuna. Wife had the tuna, which was overcooked as it was supposed to be seared and like sushi in the middle. Pasta dishes were good. Our waiter was very attentive. Great service.

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Nathalie M. • 4 reviews

June 23, 2024

10/10

After 4 days in palermo we found this little pearl! What a quality, so fresh, so pure. A little bit hidden, away from the tourist, amazing place!! So good we went back the next day! Service was perfect, finally a kind and polite person. Much appreciated

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Wayne S. • 2 reviews

May 24, 2024

10/10

The final meal of our 2-week visit to Sicily was superb. Very professional and personable staff and the quality and presentation of the food exceeded expectations. Highly recommend for intimate and small group dining.

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Carole L. • 8 reviews

April 11, 2024

10/10

We walked past this restaurant yesterday afternoon, tucked away on a small street, and I was immediately drawn to the interior, which is simple but beautiful. When I looked up the restaurant online, the strong reviews quickly convinced me to make a reservation for tonight. I am so grateful that I did. Our meal at Carizzi D’Amuri was outstanding in terms of quality, taste and creativity. The value for money was excellent. Service was welcoming, gracious, and so knowledgeable about the food and wine. By the end of our meal, we knew why: the restaurant is operated by two brothers, natives of Sicily, one of whom is the chef and the other who is in charge of the dining room and bar. This also explains why the menu is inspired by Sicilian cuisine and flavors, and focuses on local ingredients. The wine list is all Sicilian wines. (Our wine was excellent.) You can feel the dedication and passion in the cooking and the service. If we were in Palermo tomorrow night, we would go back.

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Laura B. • 2 reviews

March 13, 2024

10/10

Amazing dinner! We loved the fried artichoke, veal tortellini, and red shrimp. Very unique approach to Sicilian food by two very kind brothers. They’ve had the said they wanted us to feel like we had been invited into their home and we did! Highly recommend!!

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Ron L. • 4 reviews

December 27, 2023

2.5/10

Where do I start? At the beginning then. We were greeted, in a welcoming fashion and we were excited to be here. The space is very lovely. But things changed quickly. In the middle of explaining the menu, the waiters eyes were diverted to the only other table with guests in the restaurant. Suddenly he says to my wife and I that he has to attend the other table because they were here first. Mind you this was in the middle of us ordering menu items. So okay, no big deal. Finally he comes back after placing the other tables order, about 10 minutes or so and he takes our order. We order three courses. I order an appetizer for the table and for the second course we both ordered pasta with cuttlefish ink - which my wife and I routinely order this dish in our dining life. For the main I had the veal and my wife ordered the sea bass. and we order drinks. The first course came out in short order and was okay but it was accompanied with a very loud phone ringing incessantly. Why this phone was not answered I have no idea. There were only at this time now four tables in the entire restaurant and the waiter and his assistant just stood at the bar and ignored the phone. (And this phone rang many dozens of times through out the next hour and many times maybe 6 or 7 separate times. My wife and I did laugh about this.) But we did not laugh about the pasta with cuttlefish ink. To say it was almost inedible would be an understatement. It was so salty and tasteless it was shocking. But we tried another bite and another thinking it was us but concluded it was not us. By the way the breadsticks were great and saved our pallet! Then the main course came. My veal was so tough that it became a running joke that I was accidentally served shoe leather. I did ask for it medium but believe me when I say that it was so over cooked and tough that I’ve never experienced this before. My wife’s sea bass? She said it was ok but the sauce, as she described it was a base of salt and corn starch with no flavor whatsoever. I tried it myself. (And remember the phone hasn’t stopped ringing!) So I mentioned the assistant? Yes the waiter had an assistant and he treated him very unkindly and the assistant had a sad look on his face the whole night. During our time the assistant brought out the main course and started to sit down my dish in front of my wife. The waiter rushed over to the table and admonished him and took the plates from him to “correct” the plate ownership. It was awkward and weird. All in all this was a very poor and expensive experience.

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Carizzi D'Amuri • Owner

In life, the ability to understand and the degree of understanding, are the basis of knowledge. If you were not able to understand that the phone ringing in the kitchen was nothing else than the oven after finishing cooking, imagine if you understood everything else!

John C. • 9 reviews

October 8, 2023

10/10

Great little restaurant with good service and food. Worth a visit

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Lukas H. • 2 reviews

October 13, 2023

10/10

Great food, great ambiance, reasonable prices, all in downtown Palermo. Couldn't have been happier with experience!

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Alan B. • 2 reviews

October 11, 2023

9.5/10

On vacation. Thiswas our last night in Palermo. Food was of excellent quality, properly seasoned. Delicious warm chocolate cake which required some extra time to prepare. The waiter told us this in advance. Food prices were reasonable. Highly recommended.

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Louise M. • 8 reviews

October 1, 2023

10/10

Fabulous food in a lovely environment. The staff were very knowledgeable and explained all the dishes well. Good value considering the high quality of the food. Probably the best dinner we had during our stay in Sicily.

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Marc H. • 3 reviews

October 1, 2023

10/10

Excellent food and wine!

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