Tasting Sicily

Spicy fried aubergines, sweet pistachio cream, hot rice balls or crispy puff pastry rolls. The cuisine in Sicily is refined in its simplicity. Nothing goes better with exploring the island on warm, sunny spring days

We discover it by chance, the litle trattoria in the quiet side street. We walk past it as we stretch our legs a little before dinner in the fishing village of Scopello and stroll past the low houses with their lush wisteria and graceful citrus trees, breathe in the sweet evening air and watch the ruins on the hilltop turn dark in the twilight.

From the outside, the restaurant looks inconspicuous: small, square tables with short ceilings, unadorned walls. And so we hesitate. Should we go to the livelier village centre, to the music and the lavishly decorated restaurants?

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