Sicilian Street Food: 9 Local Bites You Need to Try

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Each region of Italy has their own unique take on Italian cuisine (reminder: you won’t find chicken parm or alfredo in authentic restaurants). Sicilian food has been influenced by the Greeks, Arabs, Spaniards, and French settlers that settled across the island.

You’ll find pasta con le sarde, fresh sardines in bucatini, with a North African inspired sauce with pine nuts, raisins, and saffron. There’s caponata — A sweet and sour cooked salad with fried eggplant, onions, celery, tomato, and sometimes pine nuts and raisins. Pasta alla Norma is an impeccable representation of Sicilian cuisine, using local tomatoes, eggplant, garlic, basil and ricotta salata — salted ricotta.

These dishes are common when you’re sitting down with the famously welcoming Sicilian people. But Sicily also has a rich culture of street food.

There’s a saying in Sicily: Nun c’è megghiu sarsa di la fami. It means, “The best seasoning is appetite.” And there’s really no better way to work up your appetite than eating on the go.