24 Hours ITALIAN CUISINE IN SICILY - Best local food in Catania, Pizza, Pasta & Seafood

On this incredible 24-hour food tour of Catania we're gonna eat some amazing pizza, we're gonna enjoy a lot of street food including the famous panini, we're gonna eat the best seafood and pasta in the city and enjoy some mouth-watering desserts. So let's go. Good evening from Catania. Now there is a custom in Catania, local people before going to dinner they like to go for aperitivo. So I'm meeting a friend of mine. First we're gonna go for aperitivo and then we're gonna go and get some dinner. So I'm here at Chiosco Italia. This is the local kiosk with the best cocktails. So cheers. These kind of places are perfect for a quick or maybe a long drink. We finished our aperitivo and now we go to a very special place for a dinner. We are here at the Pizzeria Milazzo. This is a very well-known local pizzeria. So let's go. This is the best rated pizzeria in Catania and though pizzas kind of look like Neapolitan at first, actually they are a bit different and this is a local Sicilian style but using among the best ingredients available. We ordered two pizzas, pizza with tuna and pizza capricciosa. The one with tuna has yellow cherry tomatoes on it and mozzarella cheese and some pesto sauce. On the other hand capricciosa has prosciutto cotto, the ham, boiled eggs, mushrooms and everything else that goes onto capricciosa. Pizza tonno is also made with a local integral Sicilian flour. Pizzas are here and they look absolutely fantastic. After baking they added some sun-dried cherry tomatoes and these tasty looking tuna chunks. This capricciosa looks so colorful with all these fresh ingredients on top and to add some olive oil on the crust as well. Steaming hot pizza with very bubbly crust but otherwise center of the pizza is really thin and overloaded with all these toppings. Very soft dough and all of the ingredients are fresh and very very tasty. The ingredients are top quality and very fresh. The other pizza is made of semi-integral flour and the crust is full of air. The dough is completely different, not as light but this tuna on top is just incredible. That was an amazing dinner at Milazzo Pizzeria and as I mentioned the ingredients are just out of this world. Obviously the Sicily does its thing as there aren't many places that can match the quality of Sicilian ingredients. But let's take a stroll on the local markets before going to our next stop. For the fresh juice lovers there are stands on the market squeezing some fresh juice from the local Sicilian oranges, pomegranates and lemons. Just across from there there are some freshly slain rabbits being cut and sold. We are here near the San Flaccido bakery to try some local authentic pastries. Plenty of cakes and sweet pastries but also plenty of bread, some breadsticks and savory pastries. This is a very humble looking small local bakery but it is quite highly rated. Now we need to find a good spot to try all these delicious food. Just standard tomato sauce and mozzarella pizza, the pastry is fluffy but also a bit sweet. The next thing is this round pastry stuffed with ham and cheese and some tomato sauce. A little bit crunchy on top, tomato sauce is sweet, nice cheese, nice ham, an excellent pastry. And the last pastry from the savory stuff is this square shaped pastry. This is a famous cipollina pastry with onion as its main ingredient. Very tasty and fresh pastries. But let's visit another place just nearby. I'm here in front of Pestipino bakery and this is the oldest bakery in Catania. This bakery has insane amount of sweets and cakes but this is also a tavola calda which means it offers hot food and during the morning it's mostly pastries but then during the lunch time we have all these different dishes. We are going to a completely different area and we are in Via Plebiscito now. I am in very local area of Catania and I'm about to try the local panini. Let's check it out. Huge number of these condiments is overwhelming but let's try one Completely overloaded with crispy looking fries inside we have breaded chicken, sliced tomatoes, fresh cabbage and roast pepper and yogurt salad. Let's make it a bit lighter by eating some of the fries first. Just perfectly fried meaty potatoes, soft inside but crunchy outside. Let's attempt the first bite on the sandwich itself. The bread is quite nice, well toasted. Chicken is nice and juicy. Finally getting through the all ingredients and the taste is quite quite good. Chicken with all these toppings, salads and fries on top. Such a great panini. Quite good experience at Panineria Cece but now we have to continue. D'Antonio is a family-owned local restaurant and it's a kind of institution here in Catania and we were also welcomed by the owner himself. Very nice looking restaurant but it serves some of the best food in Catania so let's go. We started off with some wine from the Etna so cheers. Our amazing food is here and this is a true seafood feast. We got Then we got sardine becafico, boneless sardines that are breaded and fried. Then we got fritelle di neonato which are these patties made of anchovies. Then we got salicornia, the other name is asparagus of the sea, fried with some eggs. Also we got tuna with caponata and we got some pan-fried cuttlefish. This is just an incredible feast on our table. It's local, it's trademark of Catania and it's prepared up to the highest level. So let's dig in. Let's try the asparagus of the sea. Very nice eggy taste and this asparagus inside is just really refreshing. Next thing is this neonato with anchovies. A bit salty but also very juicy. Crunch on the outside. Just a perfect starter. Breaded sardines are next. Genuine sardine taste and then this breaded outer skin just improves the things. Gorgeous looking tuna caponata. Pinoli seeds, eggplant, capers, olives, tuna chunks. It really looks delicious. Caponata, one of the Sicilian trademarks. All these vegetables inside. Peppers, olives, eggplant and then the tuna. Just amazing. This is sepia or a cuttlefish. Calamari is relative but this one with sun-dried tomatoes, olives and olive oil. Tasty and chunky calamari is relative. The smell is incredible and it's pasta time now. This is a work of art right here. We've got linguini with sea urchin and pappardelle with prawns and artichoke hearts. These linguinis are cooked al dente of course and the taste is quite neutral. You can feel that there's a seafood inside. These sea urchins. Quite nice subtle pasta. Well this pasta is an absolute next level. Perfectly cooked pappardelle. Amazing taste of artichokes. Prawns just melt in your mouth. Just an outstanding pasta. And the last surprise for this evening is this beautiful fritto misto plate with all the favourite deep-fried seafood. Catania is definitely a synonym for fresh seafood. Calamari rings, prawns, baby squids, squid bits. These colours are incredible. Crispy and crunchy. Absolutely fresh and very tasty too. Fried to perfection. Last but not least, tiramisu cake as dessert. Nothing like a light tiramisu cake to finish the night. Incredible experience at D'Antonio restaurant and this is why this restaurant is a local institution. Excellent food, all fresh and really amazing experience. Behind me it says that Jamie Oliver was here but Uncle Alex is not really impressed with that so we're gonna head to some other place. Pasticceria Sottile is just behind me and it's a small pasticceria but has some incredible cakes and pastries. It's time to try some of these delicious looking desserts. Now coming to Catania and not indulging in all those amazing sweet pastries. It's a sin. So once here the things you have to try are definitely pasticci dolci, the sweet pastries, the sweet cakes. They are amazing. They are truly incredible. So let's start with the small cakes first. Among my favourite is a beignet. This is a cream puff style cake. Nice, creamy, easy to eat, not too sweet, just beautiful pastry. What I like about this is that in two bites they're gone. Very tasty hazelnut cream, nice and fluffy pastry but also a bit crunchy. Just perfect. Let's go with this refreshing looking forest fruit basket. These tiny forest strawberries making popping sounds when you eat them. Another perfect dessert. Quite tasty. Very cute looking pastry basket topped with hazelnut cream and pistachio cream. Pastry is very nice and fresh. It just crumbles in your mouth. And now something I can never resist. Baba or Arumbaba with vanilla cream and some fruits on top. Very nice looking, very soft and fresh. And just look at that cream and fruits on top. So let's go. Nice and spongy. Just look at that structure and completely soaked in sweet syrup. I can never say no to Arumbaba. And the best part is that the price for all these with a small bottle of water is just seven euros. I mean this is amazing price for some extraordinary sweets. And I got some more for takeaway as well. Wherever you go in Catania there is always some amazing food around the corner. We also tried some Roman pizza by Slice in Catania and it was twice cheaper than in Rome but also a bit better. Local artisan shop selling all these beautiful meats and cheese. Such an amazing food experience in Catania in Sicily. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please like and subscribe and I will see you next time. All the best.