Ai Lumi in Trapani

Pros: lovely atmosphere and ambiance, service was prompt (rushed and stressed at times) but good service, nice enough staff.

Cons: no cream sauce (as described on the menu) on the beef carpaccio, I wouldn’t say it was beef carpaccio at all. The side salad, was quite literally just smashed up iceberg lettuce (literally no dressing or tomato or other vegetables or cheese or anything), this isn’t a salad. I had let the beef carpaccio go, but for this I pointed out the lack of items inside of it, to which he then brought out some vinegar and oil. The paccheri pasta (which they are famous for), was literally the most shrimp tasting thing I have ever had, it was so shrimp you couldn’t even taste the truffle, which says something. It was grossly rich. Also the shrimp were tiny shrimp from a can. What is that?
This placed used to be a Michelin star and they are riding on the coat tails of this. My group wished we dined elsewhere.

Horrible stay in Trapani
Planned on thee days/ left after one horrible night, hotel did release me from the other two.

I have been working in the restaurant business and i hope this review helps in two ways:

1 That management and the chef improve their game .

2 preventing people to end their holidays with this disgusting bad taste., like we did

We forget to reserve elsewhere so we went impulsive and that is how we ended up in this restaurant .

The prices seemed okay at first, but then you see the portion sizes.
Which in hindsight is a positive as the dishes where beyond bad in taste or in structure.

After the starter which was not only super dry and left a bitter after taste. I kept hoping the main course could make a comeback for the night but helas.

Not only did i have to wait for a grilled sword fish, which to my knowledge if it was fresh. Should only take ten minutes, but for them it took more than 30 min. Comically they gave my starter again first, but eventually came after another 10 min.

Instead of apologising because my wife finished her diner already, threw my plate like he was the only one working in the restaurant and couldn’t be bothered.

Mind you there were at the least 5 waiters in front with three tables empty and could have easily handled by one maybe two people (if it was full)

If the menu says grilled fish steak (swordfish), i expect the grill marks to be evenly dark and not grey and dull like it was straight out of the freezer.

The only reason i finished my plates was because I didn’t want my wife to feel worse. We ended up here, partly because of her and tried to make the best out of it. (But she knew the truth because she didn’t like any of hers as well).

Our neighbours that were from Italy seemed more than disappointed and disgusted, they didn’t finish their plate. Couldn’t blame them, they somehow managed to get something so bad that the odour was sickening.

I can continue and give more details but then i need to make a whole webpage.

I expect the restaurant to brush off these claims. They can do so but I don’t see them do well with this in the future.

Probably they get some friends in the neighbourhood to artificially boost their score as they seem to do.

Good lick to all who mistakenly go here.