Trattoria Piccolo Napoli
The Cut· research-verified, not yet visited
Family-run since 1951 in Borgo Vecchio market, the trattoria Anthony Bourdain put on his short list of Sicilian benchmarks, still entirely deserved.
The Corona family carrying on, twenty tables, a kitchen that runs on whatever came off the boat that morning. Polpo bollito (boiled octopus on lemon), spaghetti with sea urchin roe in season, involtini di spatola (scabbard fish rolled around breadcrumbs, pine nuts, currants, the sailor's dish), and a tasting plate of buccellati at the end. Reservation essential on weekends. The buccellati come from Pasticceria Oscar, two doors down; they don't make their own and they don't pretend to.
- Price — €€
- Order — spaghetti ai ricci di mare · involtini di spatola
- book ahead
- Palermo · Piazzetta Mulino a Vento 4
- Book on weekends
- Closed Sundays
From the HALA guide, reviewed August 2026.
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