Street food finds home in Catania H24 7 days a week. For a few euros you can have lunch, dinner or relax with reinforced aperitifs.
Arancini (in all variants), Cipolline (puff pastry with ham, cheese, tomato and onion inside), Cartocciate (Fagottini with ham and cheese or spinach or aubergine or etc. etc.) Pizzette, patè (puff pastry with various fillings, Sicilian (fried calzones with tuma cheese and anchovies) and many other specialities to be enjoyed hot. Some historical bars in Catania are Savia and Spinella, both in Via Etnea in front of Villa Giardino Bellini, always in competition and in search of the best flavour, exalting the tradition of Catania.
The desire for sweetness is always satisfied at all hours where you can discover a "super" breakfast with croissants, iris (fried bombs with chocolate or cream), cannoli, graffe (soft dough covered with sugar), rolls (soft dough with chocolate or cream inside), panzerotti (shortcrust pastry with cream or chocolate) and much more.
Sweets and snacks such as cassata, single-portion cake, homemade ice cream or an almond paste.
The C&G pastry shop with its offices in Piazza Abramo Lincoln and Via San Giuliano almost at the corner with Via Etnea expresses many of these Catanese sweets.
Every season has its own speciality to enjoy.
In summer there is the granita (the classic Catanese Cioccolato & Mandorla, or pistachio or Chocolate & Cream), for the festivities Agatine you will find the olivette di Sant'Agata (sugar paste covered with chocolate or sugar). A visit to Catania in every season of the year will allow you to always taste different flavours or to find those already tried with great pleasure.
To refresh yourself, the typical Catanese tradition is to drink something 'o ciospu (at the kiosk) and delight yourself with a fresh mandarin drink, an invigorating lemon and salt seltzer, a tamarind with digestive properties, and many other syrups mixed with "sezz" (sparkling water) freshly prepared in the open-air kiosks in the city. The most famous are the kiosks in the Borgo (Piazza Cavour in Via Etnea alta), Giammona (Piazza Vittorio Emanuele known by all as Piazza Umberto) and da Costa (in Piazza Santo Spirito, a few steps from Piazza Stesicoro).
