Osteria Antica Marina

Michelin guide restaurant and it didn't not disappoint. Our very last restaurant of our amazing Sicily trip. This place is a must try. It's a little difficult to find tuck in the corner of the fish market. Food came quickly once we were seated. Their sample platter are amazing and the pasta is spectacular. Probably the best restaurant food we had in Sicily. Service could be a little more friendlier but since my girl is such a sweetheart, the server was super nice towards the end. I would highly recommend this place if you're in the area!

Ordered pasta with clams and raw fish plate. I didn't enjoy the food. This was my least favorite food experience in Rome. Also took almost 20 minutes to be seated although I had a reservation. People were allowed to smoke in the restaurant.

all you can expect for a great sicilian food. Deduct 1 star for the freshness. It should have been 100% fresh.

Seafood heaven, I really enjoyed my dinner here. The scampi were the stand out. Very nice, generous and well priced.

TLDR; Terrible service, overrated and unseasoned food. Disrespectful waiters, and food doesn’t live up to its hype at all. The eggplant in our seafood salat was tough and completely undercooked. Our charcoal octopus with creamed potatoes overcooked and needed a lot of salt and arrived completely cold. We weren’t dressed as snobbish as the rest of the crowd, just normal summer clothes (shorts, sandals) and were treated in a way that made us uncomfortable. In a nice place like this, everyone should be treated with the same level of respect - but for this level of service it was likely not fancy enough. Wanna have nice food? You can have much better seafood for less in other places, situated in the same area.

Osteria Antica Marine cooks very fresh seafood pasta! I ordered the Calamarata with squid and enjoyed the dish. The pasta is unique and tasty. Good ambience and vibes. Went with a reservation and it can get quite crowded at night. It would be good to go with a reservation.

We really enjoyed going here - the wine selection is good and reasonable prices. We ended up having four courses and would seriously recommend coming here if you want to go to a slightly more upmarket restaurant. The swordfish tartar was amazing (we had the trio to try them all), then we had the pasta dish in my image below and it was so good we even told another table to order it! Sorry I can’t remember the name of it, show the waiter!! Then we chose a fish from the display case and had with grilled veg. A lovely couple near us gave us some of their anniversary cake so we can’t tell you whether the dessert here is good or not but from the rest of the food, I reckon it is!!

Great place to come with friends enjoy fresh fish + pasta, drink some wine and be merry. We arrived for a 21:15 dinner reservation and the place was still bustling both outside on the terrace and inside. The interior is well styled with bright wood panels, catches of the day display case, and wine bottles. The staff were also very lovely folks who accommodated our party of 4 even though we reserved for the following night. Food was super fresh and tasty! Highly recommend! Located in the city center and easy to go for drinks after, which we did.

We had an absolutely fantastic lunch at this restaurant right at the Catania fish market. Everything we ate was delicious, particularly the raw fish and shrimp and the squid ink pasta which didn't just have the black ink color, you could actually taste the squid flavor and the pieces of squid were so tender. We also got a grilled seabream, picked by us with the help of the chef. It was grilled to perfection, deboned table side for us and enjoyed with a cold potato salad. Dessert was also good but we expected something different when we read "ricotta and almond cake". Their wine selection is also impressive, at the recommendation of our server we had a delicious bubbly from a vineyard at the foot of Etna that was bone dry, so refreshing and paired perfectly with our food.

This is legit - the location, the food, the staff, all legit. It's in the fishmarket, and it can get seriously bustling outside. That said the benefit is that the ingredients (seafood, of course) are just about as legit as they come - impeccable quality, excellently prepared, and just about as awesome as it gets. Go. Don't think twice about it. Just go.

We sat on the front patio just feet from that morning's fish market. The seafood was amazing... we booked them twice during our stay.

Excellent mussels and baby fried squid. Lovely table setting and service ok. Just what we were looking for. Delicious food.

The most incredible food in Catania.. Nice atmosphere outside dining . Service was primo .. If you want something special and fresh this is your place .

The food is amazing what else do I need to say!!!!!! Great service and just a nice vibe while vacationing in Italy.

I first read about this place in the Times it's so good. Pick one of the set meals EUR 25, 35, 40, 45 or 65 and let chef do the rest (The EUR 25 is a full meal - the rest is a feast !!). Fish so fresh as you wouldn't believe, beautifully seasoned prepared and presented with Sicilian style. The house white wine is good too - Lightly Oaked and stands up well to the variety of seafood and fish.

Great atmosphere. It sits in an outdoor market. The fish is incredibly fresh. The service is pretty good. We went here for mother in law's 60th birthday dinner. If you're looking for the experience of sicily straight off the cover of a magazine, this is it. Pricy but worth it.

If you are visiting Catania one of the highlights is the big outdoor market that takes place in this area. This restaurant is right in the middle of it and boasts very fresh seafood. Fun place to visit!

Good seafood. You can pick fresh. I had lobster. The lobster was on the dry side and I will not recommend it. However they had other varieties of fresh seafood which it was really good. The place is on the pricey side but good food and service. Good for groups I thought.

Great typical italian Fish and Pasta Restaurant directly in the beautiful Fish market. Not a Tourist Spot, but visited mostly by italians in their Lunch breaks. We had a plate of raw marinated fish as a Starter and then Pasta with Sea urchin an scampi & almonds. Very Good. Also the lemon Sorbet was fabulous..

Terrible experience. Arrived at the restaurant at around 1025p. After sitting at an unbusted table for 10 minutes, I was told to change to another table without place settings. Placed an order for primi and secondi courses with a glass of white wine and still water at around 1040p. Bus server arrived at 1055p with a plater of cold, gratin mussels over very dry lettuce. Still had not received proper place settings, like a clean napkin, nor any beverage at all. Around 1100p, after not receiving any beverages or clean place settings, I told the waiter I was leaving. He begged me to stay and told me he would comp the wine. The place settings and beverages came to me at around 1105p. After receiving clean utensils, I tasted the primi course and it was inedible. The white wine was also awfully flat. By 1130p, I left, as the secondi had not yet arrived and all the the other restaurants in the area were about to close. I offered to pay the cost of the first course, but the waiter comped me.

We took a few days holidays from our boat and drove to Catania to breath some city air. This place has a lot to offer, but........ We followed the Lonely Planet recommendation and went to the Osteria Antica Marina today for lunch. As a starter we shared the large marinated seafood, which was more or less tasteless. Some shrimps, chopped red tuna, kind of seaweed etc. , everything fresh, but tasteless. We tried to improve it by adding salt, pepper and olive oil, something we never had to do before on our various visits to restaurants all over Sicily, but it didn't help much. Oh , yes, I forgot to mention it, the pepper mill was put empty on our table. We ordered a bottle of Fondo Forlo Etna Bianco and they didn't bother to put it into a cooler. Okay, the wine was not good either, but I have to blame myself, because I ordered something I've never tried before. And for € 18.- surely overpriced. The grissini were almost black. We fought with the starter, the face of my beloved wife was getting longer and longer and before we could finish, they served already the primi piatti. I really can not remember that has ever happened to us before: either we have been asked, if we are ready or the waiters waited until we finished, cleaned up the table and then served the next course. The pasta , shrimps with almond pasta and spada with melanzane were both soso, each with € 13.50 overpriced for the quality. When I explained all of this, he asked, if I don't like swordfish pasta with eggplant. For sure I like, but this here was just not good. I politely declined his offer to serve us another pasta dish. There many good restaurants in Catania, no need to come here again.