Tips for a holiday in Catania in good taste

Sep 12, 2009

Sicily has an ancient culinary tradition, rich and very tasty.
A holiday in Catania, for example, a major city in the region, there will surely put on weight! But I assure you, it is worth it!
Consider a gastronomic itinerary like that suggest to the guests of our B & B Catania City Center, with excellent feedback , during their stay in the beautiful province Etna!
In the morning, especially in summer, the people of Catania with some fresh ideas and palate with a good seed of the mulberry trees or almond croissant served with strictly (delicious and very different from those of other Italian regions) and that you can safely enjoy sitting at the Coffee Dome in front of a magnificent Baroque Cathedral and "u liotru" mythic elephant symbol of the city.
Later, ask around, there will certainly be advised to eat lunch at one of the restaurants or trattorias of the center. Among the typical dishes, pasta alla Norma is certainly worth trying. Created to pay homage to the opera "Norma" the composer Vincenzo Bellini in Catania is a very tasty pasta with tomato sauce with eggplant and ricotta salata.
Alternatively, if you like fish, the proximity to the sea, delivering good quality in most of the restaurants in Catania, including the Embassy of the Seas, where you can sample the delicious swordfish rolls or the more traditional "masculine" and " sardines beccaficu. Accompany this dish with excellent caponata (made from eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, cheese, onion, oil, salt, pepper) or with parmesan, eggplant sublime riot!
Around our charming B & B, Catania City Center, orbiting much more characteristic of the restaurants and trattorias: La Cantina del Sole, for example, or the square of the Ursino castle, just 5 minutes walk from the Bed and Breakfast, and the Camelot the Village of Frederic.
The position of Catania City Center is particularly easy to enjoy another of the delights Catania. In a street adjacent to the B & B, Via Plebiscite, are, in fact, small restaurants where you cook horse meat, onion and sausage. The evening are packed with people and are teeming with sounds, smells and tastes!
Of course, three meals a day are not enough and by a tourist visiting the city we expect a number of stops in bars and kiosks in the city.
You can not avoid the traditional dall'assaggiare arancini the excellent bar or Savia Etoile d'Or, in the historic center.
And after all that eating, not just have a refreshing drink fresh lemon or tangerine, so I suggest that historians kiosks via Umberto (Piazza Vittorio Emanuele).
The wine is then another of the attractions of the region, with the excellent quality premises. Why do not option, then, for a "Etna & Wine Tour" organized by the Etna Etna Experience nature, walking trails for the adventurous volcanic restaurants here and there with good wine!
Finally, it should be mentioned that the true delights of Sicilian cuisine. Do not go away without tasting the sweets Catania! All bars street Etnea offer exquisite quashed the ricotta, the classic cannoli or the typical pasta with almond or pistachio.
And if at the end of your stay, you'll want to leave, make sure to never forget any of the typical flavors Catania, do not just buy the classic book of recipes! Sign up for a cooking class to learn the tricks of the trades! One of the courses that we recommend is organized by the Federico II, School of Italian Language and Culture, (info@scuolaitaliano.com).

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