Great place for breakfast. Tavola calda, caffè, gelati. The best friendly service you can get…read moreanywhere. Lots of good choices. The icecream cakes are the best!! Nocciola and chocolate is my favorite. They speak English too. Don't forget to try the granita. It's the best you have ever had. Fresh ingredients and delicious and the most amazing staff to serve you.

Loads of vegan options available including the fava bean soup which is amazing. The caponata is…read moredelicious. The staff is so friendly and they have vegan treats. Sweet tiny spot off the beaten path a bit. Lovely spot. Prices are just right. Romantic. What more could you want in Sicily? It's not the tourist trap located everywhere else.

Nestled right in front of the cathedral, this tiny shop carries pastries and pizzas for you to…read moretakeaway or sit down. If you don't speak Italian, it's a bit of a rough time since it is a tad chaotic in there. Sitting is only outside and limited with panhandlers coming to ask for money while you try to eat or drink. The food was average with the pizza being mediocre without any flavor that stood out. The cassatta was good but the granita was too watery.

Can you say arancini? We were in town and found the tasty Sicilian treat and scarfed them all…read moredown. We even had an arancini bandit that came by and took one off the bench. Always happy to give back to a local cause. In this case, it was the bandit dog!

Toward the end of our most recent trip to Sicily, we were completely exhausted and so full from…read moreeating delicious, filling meals every day that we just decided to stop into Café touring for a quick bite. Everything here looked and smelled so good that our "quick bite" rapidly morphed into full meal with multiple arancini accompanied by a wonderful bottle of their house wine. All the food was nothing short of amazing, the prices were incredibly reasonable, and the service was welcoming and friendly :-) While we ended up overeating yet again, we left feeling not even the least bit guilty; we enjoyed a very special meal and look forward to returning again on a future trip to Palermo.

Ethereal selection of Sicilian sweets in a bustling, grandiose setting…read more Popular spot, with an array of pastry, sweets and cakes that were described as typical Sicilian. Cannoli (big and small), smoothly iced cakes and alarmingly coloured cassata. The Sicilian cassata damn near killed me - so sweet. But I couldn't stop eating it... a strong espresso was necessary to kill the sugary pain.

Delicious gelato, cannolis and more. They offer a variety of coffees, and paninis. The prices are…read morevery reasonable.

If you are staying or visiting Mondello.... you MUST visit Alba. It may only look like a normal…read morecafe, but there is so much delicious food to choose from on the menu. Sit in the restaurant and order on the menu and the paninis are awesome. Pastries are amazing! Can not stress the quality of food... plus the prices are good for the quality of food you are getting.

This place looks more like a high end store than an ice cream and dessert spot. It's fairly trendy…read morewith young Italians and some of the most beautiful people I've seen so far in Sicily. Their gelato a different desserts are just to die for so you must drop by and visit when you are here. I had the mixed berries and chocolate ice cream and for €4 not such a bad deal.

Palermo is the sweets center of Sicily and at Pasticceria Buscaglione you will discover why…read moreSicilians in their own right can brag about the amazing sweets produced on the island. But they don't. So I will for them. Opened in 1899 (!) dishin' out pastries for over 117 years, Pasticceria Buscaglione gave me and my posse a sampling of excellent Palermitano sweets. It's soo easy to love this sweets shoppe. First, they make a genius cassata and if you've never had this, try it here. A cassata is a dome shaped marzipan cake, ricotta (best in Sicily), enveloped in a marzipan fondant type covering, so delicious and with a coffee will send you to heaven faster than a tiramisu. This version is soo good, my group got them togo. That, in addition to the awesome hand painted marzipan fruit, wrapped nicely for presents to friends, you are treated to a unique experience: you almost don't want to eat them for fear of ruining Art. The mandorle (almond based cookies) were 2die4 as well. Come here for a quick dessert and coffee, after the Teatro Massimo and have an unforgetable espresso-- so good here also. The staff here are friendly and helpful. They speak a little English but the language of food is universal, no need to speak Italian, just point and smile. Hope you enjoy this place, it's a Yelp find. Ciao. Visits: a few Tip: Cassata, mandorle and marzipan fruit are their top buys. But this bakery has been around for centuries, that's how well respected this pasticceria is.