Sikulo Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The pasta is amazing. Great value too."
• "The food is superb, perfect service, nice and traditional Italian ambient, and great value for money."
• "The most scrumptious pasta! The tagliatelle salmone was light and full of flavour."
• "The pizza dough is spectacular and ingredients super fresh and authentic!"
• "Real Italian food!"
• "Delicious Sicilian specialities such as, arancini (rice croquettes), pasta with pesto alla trapanese (basil, almonds and cherry tomatoes), caponata (aubergine relish)."
• "Everything was really fresh and very tasty."

Cons:

• "Not sure if they really know tiramisu."
• "The cannoli was very very small, didnt have much of a topping."
• "The food was beyond awful. Panelle for £10 came out in seconds and was soaked in oil."
• "Pasta dishes could have been a more generous portion and didn’t necessarily taste much better than what you could achieve with store bought readymade ingredients."
• "Very dissapointing, had a lasagna and it did not taste very nice, i think i found a very small trace of meat in there, so pretty bad for a meat lasagna."
• "Carbonara was with a strong flavour of spoiled bacon; the waitress said that it should be like that and that they use pancetta, not bacon, but it was rotten bacon, unequivocally."
• "Unfortunately they mix beef and pork for the Ragu."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff were friendly, patient and helpful."
• "Staff members were attentive and knowledgeable."
• "We felt so welcome when we visited, service was so friendly and the food was excellent."
• "The service and food are always just perfect, never fail."
• "Staff were so warm and the food was delicious!"
• "The staff are not only friendly but are experienced in advising what to eat."
• "Staff are lovely and cheerful."

Cons:

• "The waitress who had served me 2 minutes before suddenly erupted with 'what do you want now, we are very busy?' and a face and tone of voice to match."
• "Please Sikulo, if you are closing at 10pm, be honest and don't announce 11pm."
• "Tried to ring 3 times to order takeaway but they did not answer."
• "The worst experience ever, staff was very nice, but after one hour had very bad food poisoning from pizza."
• "Since the new owners took over, the new staff are very arrogant and unhelpful."
• "No greeting at the door, stood there and waited to be approached."
• "Absolutely appalling attitude and service from the waitress."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Lovely setting; beautiful and authentic Sicilian menu and the food is just belissimo!"
• "Lovely experience, attentive and accommodating service, beautiful food lovely decor, sitting outside on the right side of the street to capture the sunshine!"
• "Very cosy place, typical italian with italian music and italian bear...waiters nice and friendly."
• "Now very stylish decor."
• "Lovely Warm restaurant!"
• "Amazing experience, nice and cozy atmosphere."
• "Great ambiance and lovely spacious room."

Cons:

• "Also seemed very much like a school cafe decor and poor ambience."
• "A bit of a tight squeeze as tables and places very close together so you can hear neighbouring conversations."
• "Small place and very expensive despite what it shows in google maps."
• "As it is a café’ after all, it is often full with noisy children; not a relaxing (restaurant) atmosphere."
• "It's just a little too bright for me."
• "The cafe as a restaurant in the evening still feels like a cafe not a restaurant though the owners obviously try hard to make it more cosy/romantic with subdued lighting."
• "Not even a hello or a smile."

Value

Pros:

• "A great value wine list too, which had some great wines under £30."
• "Very good food and excellent value for money."
• "Good local prices and nice restaurant redesign."
• "Excellent prices for the quality of food keeping on mind that most of the ingredients are homemade!"
• "The food is delicious a fare price."
• "The food is delicious and excellent value."
• "Affordable, Great staff, very attentive."

Cons:

• "This place is far, far too expensive for what they are giving out to customers."
• "Small place and very expensive despite what it shows in google maps."
• "The price was a bit high for what we got."
• "With the 12% service charge this cafe is really very expensive. We paid £80 for our three courses and shared a bottle of the cheaper wine. All in all it's overpriced!"
• "Prices have gradually crept up to levels you’d expect to pay in central London."
• "Everything is average (below) at high prices."
• "Pizza has a huge crust and small filling."