Restaurants in the province of Caltanissetta

Caltanissetta is inland Sicily, the land of sulphur and wheat: a few kilometres of coast and a peasant cooking that uses durum wheat like no other.

What you eat here

• Bread and pasta from old durum varieties — timilia, russello, perciasacchi — now genuinely grown again here.
• Torrone di Caltanissetta and cuddureddi, almond and fig sweets.
• Frascatula — durum wheat polenta with vegetables and pork.
• Piacentinu ennese cheese from the next province, and pecorino siciliano DOP.

The wine

Nero d'Avola finds some of its coolest, most inland sites here; around Butera and Riesi the reds have real structure.

Opening hours 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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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.