The best restaurants Palermo & West

Feel free to relax in this typical family and family trattoria: pizza, cooking kitchen in front of you in the room… good fish dishes, helpful service (but sometimes a little long) and very beautiful view. The fish couscous is famous. Enjoy the refreshing brumisateurs in the summer heat wave!

Excellent address for its various fresh fish specialities that are brought to you on a tray to choose them. If the door is closed, don't hesitate to knock! Beautiful terrace on the via Emanuele prohibited to cars. Reservation required in high season. Very nice Sicilian and international wine list. The establishment also has rooms for rent.

This is the hotel restaurant of the same name. Elegant setting, sophisticated kitchen, beautiful terrace and panoramic view. Prices are accordingly.

A legacy of a mongrel culture, the kitchen here is a subtle mixture of Sicilian cuisines (caponata and fresh pasta) and Arabic (tajines, couscous and bricks). Very welcoming hosts and neat decoration (beautiful tents on the terrace): a trip on the other side of the Mediterranean for taste and eyes! You can extend the stopover by staying in one of the guest rooms in the B & B wing looking like the Thousand and one nights.

This multicultural and friendly place to live is a haven of peace in the bustling Ballaro district. Coworking area, solidarity restaurant at reasonable prices: Moltivolti wants to create social links since 2014. Here all walks of life come together for a meal, a drink, an exhibition or a conference. Moltivolti is a place of diversity and integration, and employs refugees, some from Afghanistan, others from West Africa. The restaurant and bar are used to finance projects. Another Moltivolti is now in Kalsa.

This restaurant is a little out of the way. It's worth a detour. Specialising in fish and more particularly tuna, the chef offers a wide selection of dishes. Tartar, carpaccio, raw or cooked fish, always fresh and all caught in nearby waters, sea urchins and other delicious shellfish... The menu is constantly evolving. We are particularly fond of tagliata di tonno, linguine with sea urchins, breaded and lemon-breaded gurnard fillets. A guaranteed freshness, a very pleasant service and a modest but very careful and fair selection of wines. A good address.

You'll come back to it like a boomerang. This restaurant, known as a secret well preserved by the locals, offers a unique menu every evening at a fixed price, including antipasti, a variety of dishes, a dessert, a coffee and even a pitcher of wine. And what dishes! Here we only come out with a full belly and a short breath. It is impossible not to finish these red mullets, or this octopus salad, or these squids, the most melt-in-the-mouth squids ever tasted. An overbid of fish and seafood dishes prepared in the local style, that of the fishermen's houses of Selinunte. A great experience but try to fast a little before!

"Panineria et arancineria del mare", displays the sign. But késaco? Sicilian street-food craziness made with local fish. Burgers with cuttlefish ink bread overflowing with crispy octopus with salad and dried tomatoes, or with swordfish for those who prefer white fish, burgers with tuna, a speciality of the island, with shrimps from Mazara di Vallo, arancini with cuttlefish ink, octopus, red mullet stew, tuna, with peas and mint, sardine, with fennel and pachino tomatoes. The list of festivities is long.

This good address offers "market cuisine" in the heart of an authentic Sicilian market, that of Ballaro. All the more so as the district does not abound in good tables, too narrow and labyrinthine. Here, the products are fresher than nature, Sicilian, from the slow food circuit. But grandmothers' recipes have been modernized. Large choice of vegetarian, celiac, babies and children (games on site). Theosteria is also enoteca, between 15th century walls and columns, the setting is magnificent, and the range of wines is very wide.

Let's talk about the setting first: outside, tables under romantic trees lit by candles. Inside: climbing plants and pretty lamps under high ceilings. Finally, the plate: the menu is also different from the usual, everything here is prepared with local or organic ingredients, depending on the season's products. Tasty and creative dishes, which are recommended as a change from traditional Sicilian specialities. Because here they are revisited according to healthy and balanced recipes, but also vegetarian and vegan.

A family trattoria with a rustic atmosphere serving refined Sicilian cuisine, this is what you are looking for on holiday to discover the local specialities! On the menu, a wide buffet of home-made antipasti that allows you to taste a little bit of everything and dishes around seafood and fresh fish of the day. The dishes are of quality, the service and the welcome are extremely pleasant, but above all the quantities are gargantuan, especially the pasta dishes, prepared to perfection and generous in ingredients. A good address.

An address made especially for lovers of good pizza. Its success is such that many Palermitans don't hesitate to line up for dinner. The pizzas, served generously, are really delicious and one understands the craze for the place. The thin dough is soft and crunchy at the same time, the mozzarella and the cold cuts are Sicilian. In addition to the perfect cooking, the service and above all the owner's welcome are very pleasant. We also like the white tables and colourful chairs of the restaurant.

In a simple and sober setting (varnished panelling on the walls and tablecloths with plasticized tiles), you can meet a clientele of regulars, attracted by low prices and the quality Sicilian popular cuisine as found in the pots of the island's mammals. The menu is rich in seafood products. You can also eat a very good dish of Sardinian pasta con (with sardines) or small sardine paupiettes with sweet and sour sauce(polpette di sarde in agrodolce) for a few euros. The address is almost a hundred years old and the service is cordial. Picturesque.

Chic restaurant with a designer interior and gourmet dishes. Light and creative dishes using local produce but with sophisticated aesthetics and preparation techniques. You can try a ceviche of fish and prawns, or a poached egg with truffle and parmesan cream in antipasti, or a baccalà a sfincione, a revisited Messina recipe, with fresh cod, anchovy tomato, oregano and caciocavallo cheese. A very good and rather expensive address.

Nice osteria where good Sicilian dishes are served around fish, but also panelle, arancini, local antipasti. Lots of fried fish à la carte, don't miss the frittura mista di pesce : a mix of fried prawns, squid and other fried octopus, a delight! The pasta with squid ink, sardines or pesto and shrimps is also worth the fork. Recipes of authentic accuracy, with a strong taste. The terrace is appreciable but the service is a little long. Come early because the restaurant is very busy.

A gastronomic institution of the brothers Andrea and Alberto Rizzo, where the dishes are particularly refined. A true delight for gourmets, to whom we can only recommend the vanilla fried lobster on a pine nut sauce with candied ginger and red pepper mousse . For the record, scenes of the Cheetah were filmed next to the restaurant. A very top-of-the-range table, where the addition is salty. There is also a dizzying wine list, with many Sicilian wines. The setting is intimate, under stone vaults.

A classy table, with elegant white tablecloths and dishes with a refined aesthetic, without being stilted in the heart of the Kalsa. The plates are spectacular. Typical Sicilian cuisine revisited, to discover the Palermo flavours in particular, raw or cooked. Fish fillet in sweet and sour honey sauce with red onions, raisins and dried apricots, or a carpaccio of scottona, a meat from a heifer of the best Italian breed, renowned for its tenderness, marinated in lemon-lime with mushrooms and plums.

It is located in the heart of the tourist centre of Monreale, in the main square in front of the Duomo. Moreover the view is wonderful to admire its architectural beauty. But it is not a tourist attraction. It serves a wide choice of honest and cheap pizzas, which even Sicilians themselves come to eat here. For a quick and tasty lunch break. And no matter what time of day you linger in the cathedral, here the service is continuous.

This is a very reputable institution and frequented by the young people of the city, because the pizzas are gargantuan, delicious and inexpensive. The perfect address for broke travelers who want to eat on a tight budget. Good lasagne in the oven and above all excellent pizzas made over a wood fire, the house speciality. Warm welcome. The popularity of the address makes booking more than necessary, or plan to order take-out to devour your pizza on a picnic in the city.

Like any self-respecting Sicilian city, Trapani has small street food stalls to eat island specialties on the go. Look no further, here is the best place to taste the famous Sicilian arancini! This rotisserie is ideal for a quick bite to eat for just a few euros and serves several different kinds. Those with speck and pistachios have proved to be delicious. Ideal for a picnic before taking a boat.