Raya is a small hotel, highly prized by an informed group of visitors, which has attained the accolade as the best hotel in the Mediterranean. For many it has reached a cult status, and for those who love nature and tranquillity it is an ideal place to meditate and to refind one's soul.

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Raya Bistro

Here people meet for a drink or for a dinner under the light of oil lamps.
The menu is typically Mediterranean, but the oil, milk, ham, salami, cheese, butter, honey, marmalade, vegetables, fruit, flour used by the chefs to make pasta, bread, cakes, all come from cooperatives working with biologic and dynamic farming according to the time of the year.
If cooking is difficult, heating well could be even more difficult. But that’s not the case.
At Raya’s restaurant all recipes are simple, sometimes even elementary and are based on the matching of different genres where everything is genuine, the fresh fish comes from our sea and the meat from local farms.
The results are extraordinary, since we propose the quality of ancient tastes.
Beginning with the hors d’œuvre: shrimp salad with courgettes, vegetable and shellfish cous cous, aubergine, swordfish and cuttlefish carpaccio, vegetable and salmon rolls.
We the offer bread tagliolini with shellfish, spaghetti with shrimps or lobster, aubergine gnocchi with cherry tomatoes and ricotta cheese, stone bass ravioli with sage and mint, fettuccine with prawn and grilled, roasted fish, in "aqua pazza" or in delicious soups.
Desserts? They include both traditional Sicilian sweets and fresh summer desserts by our chef.
Wine? A short but complete list: from Sicilian award winners (also internationally) to wines coming from the best producers of all Italian regions.
Our chefs are far from the formal image of hotelier schools, while waiters serving in the restaurants are young people from all over the world.
Thus doesn’t mean that our one hundred and more guest are not served impeccably, in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere under millions of stars and in a light giving romantic visions and reflections upon the water.
Far away, the fiery lapilli from Stromboli are a priceless emotion...