Restaurants
If you want to truly experience Catania, tasting the local cuisine is a must.
But what exactly are the typical Catanese specialties?
Here’s a small selection to get you started:
First Courses
- Pasta alla Norma
- Pasta with sea urchins
- Pasta with cuttlefish ink
- Pasta with sardines
- Pasta with pistachio pesto
Main Courses
- Beccafico sardines
- Swordfish rolls
- Horse meat
- Mixed meat rolls
- Onions (cipollate)
Side Dishes
- Caponata
- Drowned cauliflower
- Parmigiana
Desserts
- Cannoli
- Zeppole
- Rice crispelle
- Ricotta cassatelle
You’ll find many of these dishes on most restaurant and trattoria menus. But here are the places we personally recommend.
Trattorias and Food venues
- Nuova trattoria del forestiero, our recommendation
- Trattoria da Peppino
- Osteria antica marina (fish)
- Canni & Pisci
- Piazza Scammacca (modern food hall) get 5% discount showing you bookmark at checkout
- Trattoria Giglio Rosso
Restaurant by the sea
Horse meat Restaurants and Trattoria
Aperitivo city centre
- Collage Boutique bar (our recommendation)
- Doc
- DOCalquadrato
- Bohème Mixology bar
- Razmataz
- First lounge bar
- Drunk Bros