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    Il Ficodindia

    Il Ficodindia

    1.5(2 reviews)
    0.1 km
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    I think I should start this short review by saying that this place was highly recommended by a…read morenative of San Vito whose opinion I trust so this may have been a one off bad experience - even a good chef can have a bad night I guess but this was truly awful, particularly given that this was mid week in the quiet period of September. First the good points: you get picked and and dropped off gratis from the middle of San Vito at a time of your choosing; the restaurant has a lovely terrace and is very comfortably furnished in a modern European style and you will be offered freshly ground black pepper from an electric grinder by your charming waiter whose command of the English language put me to shame!!! However, it's a restaurant in Sicily so it's all about the food and in a town where you can eat like a king at the most humble of cafes this was a complete disappointment while also being an assault on the wallet. Thinking we where going to be in for the long haul we decided to share an antipasto and only order the primo (pasta or cous-cous) plate to begin with as we wanted time to let the food slip down before we turned our attention to the secondo (meat or fish) plate. We started with a mussels in a broad bean soup which was in fact more of a thick purree; bland, and heavily over seasoned, which was the first time this had occurred in any restaurant in a fortnight. We had survived all day on snackage in preparation for the feast so we were ravenous and managed to get it down without too much trouble, but this would normally have been left or sent back to the kitchen. However, worse was to come as we moved on to the pasta dish. I had the shellfish ravioli which was pretty tough, not at all velvety or smooth, and was again horribly over-seasoned; I had much better in a blatant tourist trap while waiting for a ferry in Trapani, and thought I was being a little exploited at EUR10 - how little did I know!! B actually fared much worse with her choice of the local classic, spaghetti with prawns and courgette: three or four small prawns and gloopy stuck together pasta which reminded me of bad school meals from the 70's. It lacked any of the fresh zesty flavour which has been a feature of all the other pasta dishes we've had here. Despite being starving this was just inedible and I could only shrug with amazement and lift the congealed mass of pasta with a fork when our affable waiter remarked that they only accepted empty plates!! Of course by now the second plate was out of the question so it was a quick dolce of the safest option on the menu another local classic, cassata which was fine and I suspect was supplied by a local cake shop as this seemed to be the case with most desserts in restaurants we tried in San Vito (and no bad thing in my opinion as these guys just love their dolce and are keen to source the best) All in all a truly disappointing evening and at almost £80E with a couple of apperitifs and a decent bottle of bianchi from Planeta, on this evidence I would strongly recommend that you stay in the centre of San Vito and frequent one of the many excellent trattorias or full blown restaurants which you can find all over town.

    Testagrossa - Testagrossa, Palermo

    Testagrossa

    5.0(2 reviews)
    54.4 km

    It doesn't look like much from the outside and it's located in a busy spot but the outside shaded…read moreseating appealed as did the cooler full of bottled beers. So we pointed to a few things that looked good and took a seat while they warmed it up and brought it over. I chose a stuffed baked bread thing with sesame seeds. It was amazingly delicious and completely not keto. My friend chose a fried chicken breast with some sauteed vegetables. Also delicious. With the beer, we had a super lunch that gave us the energy to continue exploring Palermo. A little bit of trouble with the credit card machine (yeah, no surprise there) and we were able to get past the language barrier just fine with pointing. While we were here, they got a big queue of folks for some sort of "loose meat" sandwich. I'd try that next time. [Review 12826 overall, 141 of 2020.]

    The friendly lady in the Royal Palace down the road suggested this as an authentic street food…read moreplace nearby. Boy, was she right. It's delicious Sicilian specialties, plus pizza, which - see photos - you order and eat on the street. I was after some Panelle, chickpea fritters, which are on all the "must eat" lists. They had several items with it. I used the google camera translator and found one with mushrooms - funghi. Plus something with mozzarella and eggplant. Everything was so inexpensive - 2 or 3 euros, that I thought they'd be little tastes, like a $16 San Francisco appetizer. Wrong! Each was enough for a meal. Big sandwiches - see photos, 7 euros would easily feed two people. Tasty, authentic and quite a scene. PS On the way out I noticed a big pot of what I thought was a chocolate dessert. Wrong again! Spleen! In the last photo. I'm not partial to spleen, but it was very popular.

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    Testagrossa - Testagrossa, Palermo

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    Testagrossa, Palermo

    Panormus - sicilian - Updated May 2026

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