Social Food

Palermo social food: the genuine made in Sicily

Traditional Sicilian dishes await you in friendly family setting, as if you are the guest of a friend you haven’t seen for along time, and, consequently, with much to talk about. Social-eating’s final frontier: the Home Restaurant

Our local chefs will throw open the doors of their houses and kitchens inviting in the most curious and ravenous. From abundantly traditional first courses through to desserts, via tasty main courses and side dishes typical of this island of Sicily.

Social eating: three proposals!

#1 Family dinner

The family dinner is an original and singular experience forthe tourist. In the splendid setting of an apartment right in the centre of Palermo, with a view on to the sea and the mountain Monte Pellegrino, diners will be able to sample a typical Sicilian meal; this will vary on each occasion and bebased around products that are in season. Characteristic dishes, strictly local wine and a homely atmosphere will enable you to heartily enjoy a most pleasantand special occasion, to be taken home as a souvenir of yourstay on this wonderful island of ours.

The menu comprises either three courses (starter, firstcourse, dessert or starter, main course, dessert) or four.

Maximum 8 persons.
The specific days, time and costs to be agreed with the hostand chef in accordance with the menu.

A deposit of 50% of the total sum is requested at the moment of booking; under no circumstances is this refundable. Cancellations can be made up to 48 hours before the day inquestion.

#2 Market tour and cookery show

This is Palermo from the sensorial perspective. A guided tour through the alley ways of one of the city’s historic local markets, assailed by smells, colours and the cries of the stall-holders.

A walk among the market-stalls, selecting the fresh products for cooking with the help of the actual stall-holders; it will be these very same local stall-holders who will be showing off their wares in typically colourful and musical fashion. A simple sensorial experience that will leave you flabber gasted.

You will enjoy a genuine lesson in Sicilian cookery; the participants will be received in an actual house hold where our chef will demonstrate how to prepare a typical menu of traditional Sicilian dishes such as caponata, sea-food salad, pasta alla norma, Sicilian roulade, to mention but a few.

An interactive cookery demonstration, where each and everyone will be asked to carry out a task, in a lively wine-fuelled atmosphere of chatter and laughter. At the end of the lesson, all the participants will partake of the communally-prepared meal.

#3 Market tour and cookery class

Short, single-theme cookery courses about Regional dishes will be offered; they will be preceded by a visit to one of Palermo’s historic street-markets. The courses will take up a whole morning and terminate with actual sampling of other local products as well as the fare that has been prepared.

Minimum 5 persons, maximum 12.

The specific days, time and costs to be agreed with the hostand chef in accordance with the menu, which will vary according to the season and the products available in the period requested.

A deposit of 50% of the total sum is requested at the moment of booking; under no circumstances is this refundable. Cancellations can be made up to 48 hours before the day in question.

Here are some of the typical Sicilian dishes that we shall be preparing!

Starters:

• deep-fried rice-balls, chick-pea fritters and potatocroquettes
• caponata
• parmigiana
• sarde a beccafico (sardines)
• bruschette (toasted bread) with tomato and basil
• country-style starter (cold meats, cheeses, olives, sun-dried tomatoes)
• octopus salad
• aubergine roulade

First courses:

• maccheroni alla norma
• pennette (pasta) with sword-fish, mint and aubergines
• busiate (fresh pasta) with pesto alla trapanese (basilsauce)
• pasta with “arriminato” cauliflower
• oven-baked anelletti (pasta rings)

Main courses:

• stuffed meat-roulades
• sword-fish steaks
• bread-crumbed roast alla palermitana
• sword-fish roulades
• falsomagro (stuffed veal)
• spatola (paddlefish) savoury pie

Single course:

• cous-cous with fish/meat/vegetables

If all this is making your mouth water all you need to do is contact us on +39 3923003297 or write to using the form below.