Who we are.

The new viral trend among lovers of good food: it's called Home Restaurant, and it's an excellent alternative to traditional catering, which combines not only good food and informality, but above all a 3.0 ingredient, the sharing of an experience.

The experience of hosting people is a true passion, I await you in Chef Alessandro's world of stories and good regional cuisine. I can't wait to see you at my table!

Available on Saturday, Sunday and holidays for lunch or dinner, book 48 hours in advance.

Possibly from Monday to Friday by reservation only and exclusively for dinner, always book 48 hours in advance.

We are a family that wants to offer a simple welcome with spontaneity and dedication, with a service rich in tradition and innovation with a Sicilian heart.

The kitchen, led by Chef Alessandro, meets the needs of the guests by agreeing the menu with them or proposing purely regional evenings or lunches, traditional Sicilian events, Sicilian dishes and curious gastronomic research.

We offer meat and fish menus. Bread, fresh and filled pasta, strictly homemade desserts. After careful research we will take you to discover new Sicilian culinary paths, recipes discovered from stories and pages of now forgotten cookbooks.

The exclusive use of typical, fresh, seasonal and high quality products is the basis of the creations. The products are purchased from the best local organic KM0 producers and the fish comes from the small fishing boat that docks every day in Marina di Ragusa and beyond...

The freshness of the ingredients is the canvas on which to paint your recipe….

Home Restaurant.

“Il Balcone sulla Vallata”, Home Restaurant by Chef Alessandro Bucchieri, our motto is: from the sea, to the land, to the kitchen, to the table.

Ours is a Home Restaurant in Ragusa mainly serving fish and meat, made up of traditions, love for fish and family stories, to bring the sea to the city.

“Il Balcone sulla Vallata”, Home Restaurant was born from the desire and passion to convey the concept of hospitality to our customers, creating a “family atmosphere” and “at home” where you can savor seafood and land cuisine, paying particular attention to the raw material.

At the table, among elegant dishes, bottles of the best wine and sweet and savory delicacies, we look at each other with greater tenderness and enjoy more intimate sensations. This is why "Il Balcone sulla Vallata", Home Restaurant, has for years made its Sicilian restaurant a place of gastronomic delights every day.

All the fish comes from the pristine Mediterranean Sea, we buy the fish by choosing the best sizes and also paying great attention to the seasonality of the product we purchase, thanks to our great experience and knowledge of the fish world.

An important point on which our catering business is based is the traceability of the product that will be consumed, in fact the customer can verify the freshness and high quality of the raw material used in each chosen dish.

Our cuisine follows the rhythm of the seasons and pays the utmost attention to a raw material of absolute quality which it transforms into aesthetically beautiful and refined dishes, rich in tastes and flavours, an expression of mature gastronomic intelligence.

Fish and Meat first courses

The pasta at "Il Balcone sulla Vallata", Home Restaurant, is preferably served "al dente".

We offer a very varied choice of pasta, from spaghetti, to scialatielli, to linguine, from risotto, to ravioli, to homemade macaroni and paccheri. Great culinary ideas are presented such as green monkfish ravioli, linguine with cuttlefish ink, swordfish and prawn strozzapreti with pistachio pesto, crepe parcels filled with salmon, burrata and confit cherry tomatoes, calamarata with pistachio pesto and calamari.

Without forgetting the cuisine of meat first courses, with typical dishes such as homemade macaroni alla norma or with beef ragù and dishes of high culinary caliber, such as parmigiana tortelli with seasoned tomatoes, ricotta ravioli with broad bean pesto, risotto with beetroot, caramelized onion and crispy bacon.

Our Wine Cellar

Love and attention for great wines, sparkling wines, liqueurs and spirits purely of Sicilian production.

The wine list is for all budgets, without giving up some points of excellence among the whites.

Different labels, leafing through the wine list you immediately perceive the love and attention that "Il Balcone sulla Vallata", Home Restaurant, puts into choosing the nectar produced in our land.

We pay equal attention to the choice of wines, which we research according to very specific criteria, with the aim of supporting small producers and embracing the policy of biodynamic wines.

Because we love talking directly with local producers, learning about the history of wine, its production and its territory, therefore selecting the bottles with great care, professionalism and attention.

“Il Balcone sulla Vallata”, Home Restaurant, is always enthusiastic about being able to advise its customers on the perfect pairing with the chosen dish.

Our philosophy.

Making the guests of "Il Balcone sulla Vallata", Home Restaurant, live a unique experience is our vocation, which is why we pay as much attention to the dishes we serve as to the service we offer you.

We carefully choose only superior quality raw materials, paying particular attention to zero km products. All the proposals on our menu are homemade, starting from the pasta up to the desserts.

An elegant environment with an outdoor balcony overlooking the Santa Domenica Valley, but at the same time friendly and warm, will be the setting for your evening and lunch, a place where you can feel pampered and rediscover the pleasure of going to the Ragusa Sicilian Restaurant.