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SYRACUSE: Dioniso € SYRACUSE: Apollonion €€
Trattoria Road Map F4 Seafood Road Map F4
Via Claudio Maria Arezzo 29, 96100 Via Campisi 18, 96100
Tel 0931-246 79 Tel 0931-483 362 Closed Tue
The passionate owner of this small, There is just one choice of a set
family-run restaurant loves to meal every day, at the fixed price
explain the local cuisine and recite of €35, at this intimate fish
the specialities on offer. Don’t miss restaurant. Expect four antipasti,
the beccafico (stuffed) sardines, pasta with shellfish or seafood,
penne with fennel, sardines and roast fish, and a home-made
pine nuts, and creamy sheep’s dessert. Bottled wine, water,
milk ricotta mousse. coffee and liqueurs included.
SYRACUSE: Fratelli Burgio € SYRACUSE: Il Blu €€
Deli Road Map F4 Vineria Road Map F4
Piazza Cesare Battisti 4, 96100 Via Nizza 50, 96100
Tel 0931-600 69 Closed Sun; Tel 0931-445 052 Closed lunch in
evenings Nov–Mar
Find artisan, DOP and Slow Food The welcoming owners serve
Presidio cheeses and cured wonderful fresh-fruit proseccos The well-stocked bar at Japanese restaurant
meats from all over Italy at this and daiquiris on a terrace looking Oxidiana in Catania
deli in the heart of Ortygia’s out to sea. There is food too –
market. Eat in with a fine glass of including Sicilian sashimi and pasta with tuna, mint and cherry
wine and nibbles, or take away pane cunzato (giant bruschetta). tomatoes, or the splendid fish
for a gourmet picnic. baked in a crust of bread.
SYRACUSE: Sicilia in Tavola €€
DK CHOICE Trattoria Road Map F4
Via Cavour 28, 96100
SYRACUSE: Moon € Tel 392-461 08 89 Closed Mon Northeastern Sicily
Vegan Road Map F4 This bustling place serves hearty
Via Roma 112, 96100 dishes of handmade pasta along CATANIA: Mè Cumpari
Tel 334-257 10 02 with simple fish antipasti and a Turiddu €€
Something quite different for dessert of the day. Try spaghetti Gourmet Road Map E3
Sicily: vegetarians will thrive in with clams, prawns and crushed Via M. Ventimiglia 15, 95100
this contemporary cultural pistachio or ravioli with sea urchin. Tel 095-715 01 42 Closed Sun; Aug
centre and restaurant, in a Rigorously sourced, quality
vaulted Liberty-era palazzo SYRACUSE: ingredients are treated well in
with a pretty courtyard. Live La Tavernetta da Piero €€ this cosy, bistro-style restaurant.
jazz and world music or dance Trattoria Road Map F4 Try top class meat, fish and pasta
performances enliven many Via Cavour 44, 96100 dishes inspired by the Slow Food
an evening, while the light, Tel 0931-663 85 Closed Thu ethos, with a house speciality of
inventive menu might include This quintessential family-run silver scabbard fish kebabs
couscous with pine nuts, capers, trattoria thrives on passion. Opt served with baby vegetables.
mint and basil or “spaghetti” for the catch of the day, first in Booking is recommended.
of julienned courgette with spaghetto matallotta (cooked with
a range of pestos. Everything cherry tomatos, capers, olives and CATANIA: Osteria Antica
is home-made. oregano), then filleted with a Marina €€
white wine or zingy lemon sauce. Seafood Road Map E3
Via Pardo 29, 95100
SYRACUSE: Piano B € SYRACUSE: Vineria Café Tel 095-348 197 Closed Wed
Trattoria Road Map F4 Eno’ntelodico €€ This is a no-frills trattoria in the
Via Cairoli 18, 96100 Modern Sicilian Road Map F4 heart of the fish market, with
Tel 0931-668 51 Closed lunch; Mon Via Cavour 9, 96100 set menus and paper-laid tables.
Savour beautifully light pizza, Tel 0931-185 60 49 Quality can vary, but the
fine quality meats cooked over This place is a stylish but relaxed atmosphere is great, especially
charcoal and traditional Roman fusion of café, wine bar and at lunchtime.
dishes (a homage to the owner’s restaurant, which uses carefully
mother). Choose between carciofi sourced ingre dients in interesting CATANIA: Oxidiana €€
alla giudia (deep-fried artichokes), ways. Recommended are the Japanese Road Map E3
fiori di zucca fritti (deep-fried ravioli with Puglian burrata cheese, Via Conte Ruggero 4A, 95129
courgette flowers) and baccala in prawn carpaccio with ginger, and Tel 095-532 585 Closed lunch
pastella (battered salt cod). the Sicilian pork marinaded in Enjoy sushi and California rolls,
Hyblaean honey and peppercorns. along with tataki, tempuras, stir-
SYRACUSE: La Putia € fries and a marvellous sesame-
Vineria Road Map F4 SYRACUSE: Don Camillo €€€ crusted tuna. Vegetarian and
Via Roma 8, 96100 Gourmet Road Map F4 gluten-free options too.
Tel 334-352 45 85 Via Maestranza 96, 96100
This tiny place on one of the Tel 0931-671 33 Closed Sun & hols; FILICUDI: La Sirena €€
main streets of Ortygia serves 2 weeks in Jan and Jul Seafood Road Map E1
outstanding wines at affordable This refined, formal restaurant in Pecorini Mare, 98050
prices and a daily changing the vaulted 15th-century rooms of Tel 090-988 99 97 Closed Oct–Easter
menu of simple home-cooked a former convent offers gourmet Sit on the shaded terrace and
bruschetta, pasta and soups. versions of Sicilian specialities like tuck into orange-scented involtini
Key to Price Guide see page 210
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