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Restaurants in Catania
Where to eat in Catania: pasta alla Norma, pointed arancini, the fish market, granita with brioche, and Etna wines.
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Eating in Catania
Catania sits below Etna and in front of the Ionian, and has a square that has been a fish market since the eighteenth century: A' Piscaria.
The dishes
- Pasta alla Norma — tomato, fried aubergine, salted ricotta and basil. The name comes from Bellini's opera; he was from Catania;
- Arancini — masculine here, and pointed, with ragù or butter;
- Pasta 'ncasciata and Catania's own caponata;
- Masculini (anchovies) and the oily fish of the market, raw or fried.
Eaten in the hand
Cipollina, siciliana (with tuma cheese and anchovy), cartocciata and bolognese: Catania's rosticceria has its own names, and you buy by the piece.
Breakfast
Granita — almond, mulberry, lemon, pistachio — with brioche col tuppo, which you dip. In summer it is the city's breakfast, not a dessert.
From Etna
Pistacchio di Bronte DOP, green and narrow, harvested every other year; Etna cherries DOP, apples and prickly pears.
In the glass
Etna DOC — Nerello Mascalese in red, Carricante in white — from vines on lava soil, many of them ungrafted.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
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