La Spelonca

Best seafood spaghetti in the world. Visited with tour group. Staff is very helpful and the owner is the sweetest little lady who you'll ever meet. Beyond awesome!

My Family of six and I have eaten here three times in the last three days. We have tried most items on the menu, and they are truly phenomenal. This is the best kept secret in all of Sicily. If you don’t go here, you haven’t experienced Sicily to the fullest.

It was a lovely little family restaurant and you could tell the owner was very passionate about her restaurant and also very knowledgable in what she was selling. They had a variety of food on their menu from seafood to pasta dishes, pizza and even steak. Their drinks menu was just as varied from local wines and beers to spirits to help wash the food down. I would highly recommend a visit to La Spelonca if you are visiting naxos as the prices were really reasonable as well and has a really nice feel and vibe to it.

Definitely go hungry. I would choose light dishes because you will probably have 3 courses. Carbonara is delish and the sword fish rolls are a light main. Sorbet with lemon cello nice and light. Lovely atmosphere. You may be encouraged to have more food than you want, choose wisely.

I visited this place with my girlfriend and my 4 friends on friday evening. It was the last day of my 2 week vacation, where I visited all of Sicily around, including restaurants. Something that surprised me a lot was the very inelegant treatment of new arrivals, and the lack of knowledge of the sovoir-vivre etiquette. The menu was brought to us, we were given a few minutes to think, bread was brought to us but we were still sitting at an empty table, without any plates. The waitress serving us, very nice, only when we chose the dish informed us that there are no more mussels (Friday, 8:30 pm, in the restaurant which mainly serves seafood). She proposed that for spaghetti (a restaurant specialty) that 4 of us chose, instead of mussels, the chef would use swordfish and other seafood. We waited another 20 minutes drinking prosecco when the waitress brought us food. Pasta - it was overcooked, unsalted, the taste felt that prepared much earlier, totally tasteless. Sauce - in Europe we are used to call it water, wet, transparent, also totally tasteless. Seafood - the calamari was the texture of the gasket under the sink, hard, stringy, could not be chewed. On the whole plate were the 2 smallest prawns I've ever seen. Octopus very similar to squid, gummy, stringy, disgusting in taste. After trying this dish, I complained to the waitress serving us, she offered to exchange dishes, which I did not use (because I tried all available seafood in this restaurant). My friends who ordered the same dish also had the same feelings about food as I do, it is not edible. I asked the waitress to take the plate and return it to the chef. The waitress who served us, no longer came to our table, despite the fact that we sat there for the next 30 minutes. She passed us by, sended another waiters to took the plates from us, and we sat at the bare table again, we had to ask another waiter for the bill (meanwhile, she was polishing cuttlery behind window). When he brought the bill, I had to get up and ask the waitress serving me that I would not pay for my spaghetti which was a crime on delicious Italian cuisine. The waitress said that she had to ask the boss, after 5 minutes she returned, put the corrected bill and left without a word. Totally she was not interested in why the other 3 people who also ordered this dish, left it practically intact. "Coperto" fee 2 euros / person - in this case a napkin. The service at this restaurant is nice, as long as everything is ok.

Pleasant and fun staff, great tasting food with a very warm and authentic atmosphere.

Extremely friendly place with distinctive service. Some like but some might think it maybe too friendly. Food was good and we enjoyed our visit.

Very very cosy and delicious place to eat! Also the prices are very reasonable compared to other places and the quality of the food is good. The staff is very friendly and speaks good English.