Villa Angelo Musco in Metropolitan city of Catania

"I wonder why this place has so low ratings? For someone as demanding as me the food and service could even gain 5 stars. La bistecca (the steak) was one of the best."

"wonderful lunch with a good price close to etna cable cars highly recommend"

"Food excellent. Needed more staff to cope with numbers. Would recommend."

"Very good food, served by a fantastic waiter, who didn't speak a word English, but that just added to the good and friendly atmosphere."

"Just north of the town of Nicolosi on the winding road SP92 making it's way through the Etna Park to the Mt Etna base camp at Rifugio Giovanni Sapienza and the Silvestri craters is found the Villa Angelo Musco restaurant. The decor is rustic and cosy with lots of old time memorabilia adorning the walls and shelves. There are three main dining areas and a centrally located bar/cafe/souvenir shop. There is an al a carte menu and fixed cost buffet dining options during certain days of the week. On Sundays they currently offer a €22 lunch (menu in attached photos) composed of very generous portions of a variety of seasonal antipasti, 3 types of meats, 3 types of pasta, desert, house red wine, mineral water and coffee. Quite unconventional for non Italians, they expect you to take your coffee standing up at the bar at the completion of your meal during which they strip the table clean for their next customers. Looking at the menu there is a variety of dining options of pizza, pastas and meat dishes at fairly reasonable prices. Friday night seems to offer live music as well. Obviously set up for the tourists, near the bar there is a souvenir shop where you can buy all forms of My Etna and Sicilian souvenirs. Even though the restaurant caters for the tourist, it is frequented by many locals coming all the way from Catania and surrounding areas. Our waiter was very friendly and chatty. The restaurant is non smoking but on the downside the smoking area is located in the first room at the entrance of the restaurant so the first and last thing you breath entering and leaving the restaurant is a lung full of second hand smoke. The parking area is small and can be very full during peak times. Roadside parking is not an option as it is situated on curves and bends of a narrow road. Surprisingly, for a restaurant catering for the tourist, very little English is spoken and the menus are only in Italian. So do have your Google translate at a ready (or even better an Italian relative!). Free social Wi-Fi is advertised but you can only log in with a Facebook, Instagram or Google account. Accepting the connection means you agree that your username, profile picture and email address will be recorded and made available to the third party providing the internet connection. This obviously has privacy issues and opens you up to unsolicited emails or worse. I declined the "free" Wi-Fi. Overall it was universally agreed by those in our dining party (consisting mainly of local relatives) that it was good value for money and good quality food. They said they would return again so that indicates a definite "thumbs up"."

"Beautiful setting, extremely friendly staff, the food was simple (we had pasta with pistacchio sauce) yet tasty, and beer was ice cold. The dessert was ok and the coffee was on the house (also delicious, as usual in Italy). Definitely land here if you're around Mount Etna and are hungry for a local, unpretentious yet savory meal."

"Delicious food. Very kind staff. Beautiful decor. Very well priced dinner."

"Beautiful place, very good food and friendly staff. Recommended well done"