Palermo Restaurants

  1. Antico Caffé Spinnato

    Thanks to the café's immense popularity, both with Palermo's professionals and with tourists, the local pigeons are so used to good food lying about they occasionally dive-bomb the tables outside, trying to get to the crisps and olives. Considering this rather unpleasant feature, you're perhaps better off inside the sophisticated tea salon, which serves every imaginable Sicilian drink, plus ice creams and cakes. Great for a late lazy breakfast with the newspaper.

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  2. Il Baretto

    This little café with its besuited waiters gives you a good insight into how the other half lives. Rich young Palermitans dressed head to toe in designer labels, ladies with serious hairdos, and eccentric old men with Panamas and shades all congregate here for their light lunch.

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