Catania for a tasty holiday ! 

Sicily has an ancient, rich and tasty gastronomic tradition.

After Holidays in Catania, one of the most important towns of Sicily  you will look fatter, but it will be worth it!!!

Let's consider a gastronomic itinerary as that we suggest to the guests  of the B&B Catania City Center while their stay in Catania!

In the morning, especially during summer, the catanesi  generally refresh their minds and taste with a delicious mulberry or almond "granita" served with a brioshe (very tasty and different from those of other regions)  that you could  enjoy sitting at the Caffé del Duomo in front of the magnificent baroc Cathedral and of "u liotru", mythical elephant simobol of the town.

Later, asking around, you will be suggested to have lunch in one of the restaurants and trattorias of the city center. Among the most typical dishes , you will find the "pasta alla norma". Created to celebrate the Opera "Norma" by the catanese composer Vincenzo Bellini, it is a savoured pasta with tomato sauce, aubergine and ricotta salata (a typical Sicilian cheese ).

Otherwise, if you prefer fish, the closeness to the sea, assure an excellent quality of fish in most of the reastaurants of the town, as the Ambasciata dei Mari, where you could eat delicious roulades of  swordfish or the more typical "masculini" and "sarde a beccaficu". You could  also take a savoured "caponata" as vegetables (tomatos, aubergines, peppers, cheese, onions , oil, salt) or "parmigiana" (sublime aubergine pie)!

Close to the city center you will also find the fish market, called "Piscarìa",  wher you could wlak near to multicoloured stands of fresh fish, fruits and other Sicilian specialities!

Around our nice B&B, Catania City Center, you could find a lot of  the most  characteristic restaurants and trattorias of the town: La Cantina del Sole,  for example, or in piazza Federico II, only 5 minuties on foot from the Bed and Breakfast, you could find the Camelot and the Borgo di Federico.

If you will be guests of the B&B Catania City Center you could take advantage of a convention with one of the typical and characteristic restaurants of the city center that will offer you complete menus for only 10 €. 

Catania City Center location is particularly comfortable to taste another of the specialties of Catania. In the street behind the B&B, Via Plebiscito,  you will find a lot of small trattorias, specialised in cooking Horse meat , onion  roulades and sausage. In the nights, they are full of people, and they smell and savour so delicous!

Three meals per day are not enough and as a tourist visiting our city you will be obliged to stop at the several bars and kiosks of the town.

You will also be suggested to taste the traditional "arancini" of the excellent bars Savia or Etoile d’or in the city center.

Afetr so much food you will try a fresh lemon or mandarin drink of the historical kiosks in via Umberto  (piazza Vittorio Emanuele).

Wine represents another of the region specialties. You could decide to make an “Etna & Wine Tour” on the volcano Etna organized by the naturalistic association Etna Experience, visiting wonderful volcanic itineraries and making wine tasting in the several wine cellars of Etna. I

In the end you could not miss the real specialities of Sicilian cookery. Do not leave the region without tasting the Catanesi sweets. You will find in all the bars of Via Etnea the delicious cassatta with ricotta cheese, the classical cannoli or the typical almond or pistachio pastries.

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