All round, good pizza
Pro Pizza authenticity is there.
Con Starter and dessert not quite on the money.
Pay
€€
About €20 per person for shared starter and dessert, solo main and bottle of wine.
Find
Website https://sciantusi.com/spain-madrid/
Access Steps but also gradients to the dining area.
Quick Bites
Hopes. We want good pizza with decent dough.
Reality. We got it.
First Impressions. Friendly welcome, but rather character light interior.
USP? Siciclian pizzas, and so on.
The offer in three words. Sicilian flavours? ....yes.
Service! Aimiable, partly in English, Spanish and Italian. Gratis limoncello was a bonus.
Friend friendly? Naturally.
Rating for dating. Food's right. Decor's not doing it though.
Tip? Small one.
Change one thing? Chill the wines properly!!
Revisitability. Moderate. Only the pizzas would draw us back.
The HM Pizza Map
Digested
Despite the website's foodie-friendly trappings, Scinatusi turns out to be a down to Earth pizza experience, with exposed brick and polished pine to the fore, and Eros Ramazotti inevitably in the ear.. Eating in a pizza place in Sicily must often be more like this than the romantics in us would like to imagine.
We hoped to kick off with a spicy kick, but bruschetta laced with 'nduja lacked the freshness and bite we'd hoped for, although it was topped with some excellent mozarella. Nearly, but not quite.
Things improved. Pizzas hit it the nail on the head. The nose on the button. Look, they were good. Verging on excellent. Will that do? We managed to choose two without tomato, so you'll have to trust the fact we demolished both as a good sign. S & F was, well, it was lacon with grelos on a pizza, really. Pizza a la Galicia, almost. Sausage meat, greens, plenty of juiciness in the cheeses. It worked well. Le due Sicilie had plenty of acidity too, this time from some excellent freshly made pesto and yellow tomato. They were great, and both vanished from their plates. Chilli oil was a really welcome extra detail.
Dessert? We're back to room to improve territory. The baba needed a lot more alcohol. It should have felt soused and luxurious, Instead it was simply a giant sponge champagne cork covered in cream and choc shavings. Pleasant, but not ultimately interesting enough.
Service was helpful and amiable, but struggled a bit in Spanish. A caña to kick off was perfectly chilled, but we never got our bottle of Rosé to the right temperature. A limoncello was a kind and welcome extra detail at the end, and the bill, with in this case, an El Tenedor discount, was pretty kind.
Worth another look, now we know how things are.
Food ★★★☆ Decor ★★★ Service ★★★☆
Pro Pizza authenticity is there.
Con Starter and dessert not quite on the money.
Pay
€€
About €20 per person for shared starter and dessert, solo main and bottle of wine.
Find
Website https://sciantusi.com/spain-madrid/
Access Steps but also gradients to the dining area.
Quick Bites
Hopes. We want good pizza with decent dough.
Reality. We got it.
First Impressions. Friendly welcome, but rather character light interior.
USP? Siciclian pizzas, and so on.
The offer in three words. Sicilian flavours? ....yes.
Friend friendly? Naturally.
Rating for dating. Food's right. Decor's not doing it though.
Tip? Small one.
Change one thing? Chill the wines properly!!
Revisitability. Moderate. Only the pizzas would draw us back.
The HM Pizza Map
Digested
Despite the website's foodie-friendly trappings, Scinatusi turns out to be a down to Earth pizza experience, with exposed brick and polished pine to the fore, and Eros Ramazotti inevitably in the ear.. Eating in a pizza place in Sicily must often be more like this than the romantics in us would like to imagine.
We hoped to kick off with a spicy kick, but bruschetta laced with 'nduja lacked the freshness and bite we'd hoped for, although it was topped with some excellent mozarella. Nearly, but not quite.
Dessert? We're back to room to improve territory. The baba needed a lot more alcohol. It should have felt soused and luxurious, Instead it was simply a giant sponge champagne cork covered in cream and choc shavings. Pleasant, but not ultimately interesting enough.
Service was helpful and amiable, but struggled a bit in Spanish. A caña to kick off was perfectly chilled, but we never got our bottle of Rosé to the right temperature. A limoncello was a kind and welcome extra detail at the end, and the bill, with in this case, an El Tenedor discount, was pretty kind.
Worth another look, now we know how things are.
Food ★★★☆ Decor ★★★ Service ★★★☆