The best restaurants Sicily

You won't soon forget this restaurant, open since 1910, a real institution with a beautiful terrace. The specialities: black risotto with squid, octopus salad with orange and fennel, maccaruna alla Filippino and sesame biscuits dipped in malvasia. But most of all, the fish is fried, grilled or in a sauce, delicately carved before being served. The Bernardi brothers also produce Italian wines and liqueurs such as the famous rosolio, the Moscato grappa and the Lipari malvasia: let yourself be tempted.

Here the aesthetics are perfect, both on the plate and in the decor. This restaurant at the entrance to the Valley of the Temples has a chic, vintage and graphic setting: from the lighting fixtures to the floor ceramics and the wall china cabinet, every detail has been thought out. The terrace offers a beautiful view of the countryside, the sea and the temples. Inspiring and invigorating à la carte: swordfish carpaccio with orange sauce, ravioli with eggplant and basil pesto, pistachios and parmesan, or red scorpion fish faggots with prawns. Let's eat!

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!

There is unanimous agreement on this address! The name of this restaurant refers to a poem by Baudelaire. In a street of Ortygie, near the sea, Salvo in the kitchen and Saro in the dining room offer Sicilian and French dishes. Tournedos Rossini, tuna with caramelized onions, lean fillet with pesto, eggplant mille-feuille, tuna carpaccio, red mullet fillet with basil... It's all tempting. Two terraces in the heart of Ortygie. Numerous Sicilian and French wines. Homemade desserts (e.g. panna cotta with basil infusion and a touch of chocolate), regular evenings.

This very chic restaurant, close to the sea, has a magnificent terrace under a secular pine tree in the summer. It is a gastronomic den where you can enjoy fresh fish and seafood dishes, but also sushi. The pizzas and homemade pastas are also worth a try! Good choice of perfectly selected Sicilian wines. Highly recommended by the locals, it is advisable to make a reservation as the address is popular.

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.

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.

A rustic place inside and magical outside since you can eat on the terrace, in front of the beautiful cathedral of Cefalu: you can't find a better view. The terrace is often crowded, and for good reason! All summer long, a piano is installed there and the artist who plays there every day comes back to the great classics of Italian music. We enjoy this acoustic musical atmosphere. On the plate, we recommend the house speciality: the fish carpaccio (a real delight).

Located in the historic centre of Modica, almost opposite the Teatro Garibaldi, it is one of the oldest buildings in the city. The attention is focused on quality raw materials and respect for Sicilian culinary traditions, flavours of yesteryear that can only be found in the pots and pans of the nonna. The rabbit alla stimpirata with carrots, celery, garlic, capers, mint, olives, fries, vinegar and white wine will long be remembered. And the room is just like the plate, a rustic-retro setting with chequered tablecloths.

Beyond the plate, which is remarkable here, one appreciates above all the inner courtyard full of palm trees and plants of this restaurant. A place where you can dine quietly in the coolness at lunchtime and in the evening. The jazzy music contributes greatly to the relaxed atmosphere here. The interior room is also finely decorated, the dishes are delicate and the kitchen is decorated in the same spirit. The penne al pesto are succulent, as are the tiramisù or the granita alla mandorla. We heartily recommend this restaurant.

Simple, friendly, tasty and cheap. In the high season, the restaurant is open every day non-stop. The house is run by a family. Everyone pitches in, and it works! The cuisine is that of Sicilian grandmothers. Try the risotto with fish from the day's catch, or a famous fish fry, delicious. The pasta is also appetizing. The reception is very friendly, the owner will always have a little story to tell you, and in French please. The terrace overlooks the port.

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.

This is a great place to stop for lunch. Como Como offers beautiful salads, puccia (traditional rolls topped with original and local products, homemade drinks (made with Sicilian lemon for lemonade) for a reasonable price. In addition, there is a terrace at the gates of the main street and a relaxed service.

According to the locals, it is one of the best trattorias in Cefalù. In fact, the restaurant is always full and it is better to make a reservation, especially for dinner. The setting is rather chic, just like the plate. The octopus salad with asparagus sauce as a starter, the plate of "crudi", seafood in carpaccio and tartar, will whet your appetite. The fresh pasta is marvellous, well prepared, and the swordfish rolls succulent. We love the attentive service and the Sicilian family atmosphere.

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.

This pizzeria is unmistakable on a square of the Belvedere and the church of San Giovanni, with its terrace that extends its arms to you. It is full of hungry tourists who have stopped under the parasols. Open every day almost every hour, it has the merit of offering simple pizzas, but some too watery, too bad!

The elaborate menu promises delicious dishes but the quantities are not there for seafood (the grilled octopus on its potato cream was microscopic) and the pasta lacks taste. Too bad because the terrace is beautiful, the design of the dishes worked, but at this price it is not enough.

This restaurant-bar is ideal for a bite to eat after a swim. Tables are available on the large shaded terrace. The place is quite popular with tourists and especially young people. It must be said that the two boys who run the place are very welcoming. Breakfast for three times nothing in the morning with homemade pies. In the area, it is said that this is where you can taste the best pane cunzato, a speciality of Scopello prepared from bread baked in a wood-fired oven with a lot of olive oil, tomatoes, cheese, anchovies and oregano.

Here, no tourists, but a rather deafening Sicilian noise level because the restaurant room, quite large with a part in green terrace, is filled every evening with locals. For those with sensitive eardrums, there is a terrace. The pizza oven is running at full speed and the choice is quite wide. Fine and crunchy dough, abundant toppings, local atmosphere, speed and friendliness of the waiters, contained prices, everything is there! Special mention for the Pizza San Domenico: tomato, mozzarella flower of milk, roasted cooked ham, artichoke and basil.

Where to have lunch or dinner in the tourist streets of Syracuse? Many tourist attractions and other addresses, certainly touristy, but tasty, authentic and copious! The antipasti buffet is exquisite, the pasta with sumptuous clams, as well as the fritto misto with mini red mullet and sea urchin bruschetta, the pleasant service, the perfect micro-terrace, the taste of Sicilian family restaurant cuisine in the dishes.