One of the best places to enjoy this treat in the city is the inconspicuous Caffetteria del Corso , where friendly owner Pino makes a handful of flavors from scratch on a daily basis.
Topped with freshly whipped cream, they are an indulgent and refreshing way to start your day. You can shop for seasonal fruits and vegetables and taste Sicilian fried treats at the numerous stands packed within: taste arancini fried rice balls , pane e panelle sandwiches stuffed with chickpea fritters and thick slices of sfincione a type of focaccia usually topped with a sweet tomato sauce, onions and caciocavallo cheese.
Located right across the street from Teatro Massimo, Palazzo Sovrana is home to luxurious suites The exterior pays homage to Sicily's Greek roots and incorporates elements from the Selinunte and Agrigento temples. For a relaxed lunch, head over to Osteria Pane e Alivi for local specialties at a great price, including the house special, spaghetti made with sundried tomatoes, olives, capers and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Climb the Palermo Cathedral for a view of the city from the rooftop.
You can also climb the Cathedral for a view from the roof. The 16th century Fontana Pretoria was built in Florence and transferred to Palermo in In the evening, enjoy a glass of wine with your toes in the sand at NautoscopioArte , a lively beach and cultural club open from June to October each year. Then head to the retro New York-style dining room at Buatta for a taste of local dishes like Bucatini pasta with cauliflower, raisins and saffron, Aeolian-style fish with tomatoes and Eggplant caponata.
The outdoor courtyard is a lovely place to relax and features paintings and illustrations by local artists for sale on the walls. The highlight is the gilded Cappella Palatina, one of the best examples of the city's unique Arab-Norman-Byzantine style of art and architecture. Inside, the Fondazione Federico II hosts numerous art exhibitions, including a recent show about Flemish paintings and another about Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo.
This mysterious blue chamber is decorated with Arabic inscriptions, verses and designs and arresting for its color and artistry. It was hidden from view for centuries behind layers of plaster in a private home and only recently discovered during routine restoration works, though its function remains unclear.
La Camera delle Meraviglie is arresting for its color and decorated with Arabic inscriptions, verses The portions are generous but you can choose to order only half portion so as to try more of the savoury dishes from the menu.
They focus on fish but serve many different dishes from Sicilian tradition and good regional wines. Try the swordfish pesce spada and spaghetti with urchins and red shrimps. Pizzeria Niagara A cheap eating option in Palermo, Pizzeria Niagara is a no-frills neighbourhood restaurant that has been serving great pizzas for decades.
They also offer much appreciated traditional panini made with pizza dough Read more. Ferro di Cavallo With wooden ceiling and bright red walls, Ferro di Cavallo is a family-run trattoria serving genuine Palermitan cuisine for fair prices.
All the ingredients are fresh and local and the recipes stick to the tradition, being passed down from one generation to another. It tends to get very crowded so it's advisable to come early or to book in advance. L'Ottava Nota The team at Ristorante L'Ottava Nota is passionate about mixing traditional Sicilian and Spanish cuisine with innovative techniques and creative flavours.
The goal is to create an experience that combines scent, presentation and flavour in the best way possible. The restaurant is located in the historic neighbourhood near the port.
Cagliostro Ristorante With a classy setting of 18th-century furniture and mirrored walls, Le Delizie di Cagliostro is a typical Sicilian restaurant that has been around since From the menu, you can choose traditional Sicilian food with a modern twist, as well as good pizzas and excellent wines.
At Ke Palle, on the popular tourist street Via Maqueda, there is a whole variety of creative fillings. Also a product of cucina povera, this filling and starchy dish could not be simpler. Chick pea flour fritters, fried in batter, are served on a bun.
Potato croquettes the size of a very small egg — deep fried crisp- are served on a bun. Sfincione is fabulous hybrid of an airy focaccia and a pizza, with no cheese. It will be familiar to anyone who likes Sicilian style pizza in the United States — thick and cut into squares, or the now popular Grandma Pie.
But what topping — a small, lumpy Sicilian variety of tomato bursts with intense flavor. These are island flavors- concentrated by the bold Mediterranean sun. Both the tomato and a version of Sfincione are popular in the Cyclades. They also have all these specialties at Nino u Ballerinu.
Palermo excels with sweets day and night, from a canolo for breakfast to a brioche con gelato after midnight. In Sicily, you can have a croissant filled with green and gloriously fragrant Pistachio cream. This is cheaper, and more fun. What you do is to look at the pastry case first to decide what you want- a cornetto , a canolo.
An Italian espresso is very short, and nearly half of it dense delicious foam. You only need about 90 cents and a couple of minutes to enjoy it. Is there another sweet more evocative of Sicily? This is the queen of Sicilian pastry. A crisp — crumbling, not flaky — shell is filled with sweetened whipped ricotta cheese.
The filling has candied citrus and chocolate, or, in Palermo — it can be pistachio filling. Freshness is key — most places fill their canoli when ordered. Except at a busy cafe bar — but then the turnover is so quick that your canolo shell should still be crisp. Here, a layer of sponge cake soaked in liquor is topped with ricotta cream, wrapped in green marzipan, and decorated with candied fruits.
But gelato is a basic, like bread. The best late night Gelato we had — twice — was right down the street from Nino u Ballerinu. We loved the old-style flavors, like cassata , with the ingredients of a cassata Siciliana. This one was packed with candies fruits and toasty whole almonds. Another night they had a fresh batch of torrone flavor — nougat with whole almonds.
Brioche con gelato is brilliant, unapologetic way to enjoy gelato for breakfast or any time of day. A fresh, soft brioche is split open and filled with the gelato of your choice.
Pistcachio is a popular option. This place — open until past midnight every night, and until 2 am on Saturdays — makes a very nice one. If you want to eat out in Palermo, you may need to plan a little. Some restaurants — especially places not catering specifically to tourists — close between lunch and dinner. For dinner especially, you often need to reserve a table — even at casual neighborhood places. We got lucky though. When we stopped to make a dinner reservation at La Tavernaccia, they were still open for lunch.
They had a table free, and we took it.
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