Food and Drink
Street food
Palermo is worldwide famous for its street-food.
Almost
everywhere there is a place where you can taste some street-food
specialities.
But
you can't say you have been in Palermo if you don't
taste granita, ice-cream brioches (a
kind of croissants with ice-cream) and arancine !
Palermo's
cuisine is very rich and varied. And sicilian
cassata and cannoli pastries are
traditional symbols of the different influences of the dominations of
Arabs and Normans.
What
to taste?
- arancine (fried rice with meat or cheese in a sperical shape)
- sfincione (a kind of pizza)
- pane cunzato (bread with sliced tomatoes, cheese, anchovies, salt, pepper, origano and olive oil)
- granita (dessert made from crushed ice and sugar mixed with various flavorings)
- Pani ca' meusa (pane con la milza- spleen sandwich)
- Stigghiole (parts of intestines of lambs)
- Cannoli (cookies with ricotta cream)
- Brioche con gelato (ice-cream brioche)
- Pane con panelle (sandwich with panelle, gram flour fritters)
-
Pane
con crocchè (sandwich with crocchè, fritters made with mashed
potato, eggs, cheese)
Prices
Most
of prices can vary and depending on place and if you are taking food
or drink away or sitting on a table where they are available.
However
street food is quite cheap. Below some examples to give you an idea
about costs
arancine
cost € 1 - € 2
sfincione
€ 2 - € 3
pane
cunzato € 3
Brioche
con gelato € 2 - € 3
coffee:
1 €
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