Ristorante Trattoria La Matrice In Sciacca

Located in the center of Sciacca, it overlooks Piazza Duomo with a view of the Basilica. The restaurant is well-maintained, but unfortunately, there's limited seating inside. Fortunately, during the summer, you can sit outside, where you can enjoy not only the beautiful view but also the pleasant climate, thanks to the fact that the area is usually breezy. I dined inside because it was late October and the temperatures weren't suitable for sitting outside. An excellent dinner was served, featuring Busiatte pasta with octopus ragù. I highly recommend this restaurant.

We spent several days in Sciacca and, on our sister-in-law's recommendation, went to this restaurant for lunch. The welcome was warm from the start, the food delicious and of excellent quality, and the service fast and efficient. We have two two-and-a-half-year-old children, and this restaurant definitely won their approval, so much so that we returned for both lunch and dinner the following days! In short: highly recommended!

It is located in the basilica, quality food, hospitality, always recommended.

The food, atmosphere, and service were great. Unfortunately when we sat outside to eat, there were so many flies, landing all over our bodies and food as we ate it was extremely unpleasant. There were so many flies on other customers as well. As a result if you want to eat here, I recommend you eat inside.

During our lunch in Sciacca's historic center, we enjoyed excellent busiate pasta with octopus ragù and a truly flavorful calamarata with scorpion fish. The dishes were well-prepared and made with quality ingredients. We were a bit disappointed with the mixed fried fish, which lacked any real fish and wasn't up to par with the rest. The service was friendly and welcoming, and the location, located in Piazza Duomo, is truly central and charming. Overall, a pleasant experience, with good food and a lively atmosphere in the heart of the city.

We were there last night on the occasion of our anniversary, impeccable service, super fast and very kind and attentive waiters, excellent food, quality and abundance in the dishes

The food was quite good, well prepared. Espresso in a plastic cup which is strange for this kind of restaurant. The service is way too fast, we had the feeling that they wanted to close the restaurant as soon as possible, definitely not Italian! We finished eating three courses within an hour, and could easily have had a glass of red wine with our beef, in addition to the bottle of white wine we had ordered. We were not asked if we wanted dessert.

A restaurant overlooking the cathedral square... excellent food and very friendly waiters... worth a try.

Excellent dinner, efficient staff, and despite it being almost full, we didn't have to wait long. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

First things first: Great location! The service was attentive, but disorganized. The menu is limited, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just a shame that our choices weren't convincing across the board. We had tagliatelle with wild boar ragu (bland and lacking in seasoning, almost like it came from a can), tuna tartar (barely seasoned, marinade uninspired), and beef strips (cooked to perfection, but unfortunately served cold, meat quality satisfactory). The espressos at the end came in disposable plastic cups (!), with a wrapped wooden spatula as a spoon, something I've only ever experienced in the simplest motorway service stations or company canteens. The menu on the restaurant's website is outdated, by the way, but it's easy to see why the sometimes drastic price increases have increased, for example, for the Spritz: €5 on the website, a whopping €6 on the spot in September 2025. Or the large draft beer: €3.50 on the website, but actually €4.50 on the spot in September 2025. That's a price increase of 20 to almost 30%. I'm surprised that inflation is so high in Italy... Instead of a coperto, a 10% service charge was automatically added to the bill, something you generally only find in heavily touristy regions of Italy. In conclusion: A typical tourist Italian restaurant "by the village church" with no great culinary ambitions; you're mainly paying for the undeniably beautiful location.