At a stone's throw from the Teatro Politeama in the centre of Palermo, a wide range of places have been open for a few months now, where you can taste something a bit different from Sicilian cuisine. If you're spending a little ex…

Throughout the Mediterranean, the heat and relaxed lifestyle make for dining later in the evening. However, between the afternoon snack and dinner, there's a tradition of having cocktails, sometimes "rinforzato" ones which are sig…

Sicilians can spend hours discussing food, debating the sweetness of a tomato or the best way to fillet a sardine. So head to Palermo’s Vucciria market, the concentration of this most important ingredient of local life. Among the…