Despite such a small city, Mondello offers a variety of restaurants that please the most different personal tastes as well as occasions. However undeniable to point out that fishes and seafood are the highlights within every restaurant's cuisine.

It would be a sin to visit Sicily and not taste the real Sicilian gelato. Like the rest of Italy, that makes exceptionally good gelato, such as the San Gimignano region itself - a medieval village near Firenze - in Palermo there are unique pistachio-flavored gelatos that can’t be found anywhere else in the world.

I have a certain obsession with visiting street markets. But I confess that I only do it when I travel. Perhaps because it is an efficient, fun and wonderful way to get to know the local culture better. In Italy, because of the favorable climate and soil, and because they have a very serious food culture, it is a perfect place to find the freshest and most tasty varieties of vegetables, fruit, delicacies, fish, spices and other food.

Sicily has a long-standing tradition of pastry making whose heritage was left by Arabs, Greeks and also Spaniards. That's one of the reasons of which Sicilian desserts are so rich, diverse and commonly made with sweet ricotta and almond paste. I particularly love two of them: the cassata and the cannolo.

Basically, the most interesting restaurants, bars and pizzerias in Palermo are in the Old Town Center, known as Borgo Vecchio. There are other very nice places outside this area, but I recommend exploring this region that has a huge historic and cultural richness.