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Arancina

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A simple magic taste, this is Arancina. Fried risotto ball that resemble of an orange, for the shape and the color, (the name in fact in italian means small orange) it can be stuffed with a variety of mixtures, but meat sauce (alla carne), and ham and butter (al burro), are the most traditonal flavours. Arancine are made by forming balls of risotto, inserting some kind of stuffing, rolling them in a bread crumbs and frying. Arancine are perfect for every moment of your day, as apetizers, as first course, as main course. In the moring, in your lunch-break, even for dinner, a Arancina can fill your stomach without being heavy to digest, so every moment of the day is right to have a good Arancina, no matter which flavour. You can have a Arancina in Palermo sitting in restaurant or standing, just holding it in a napkin like the locals do. An old recipe that like all the real classics never goes out of fashion. In Palermo  Arancine are sold almost everywhere, in bars, restaurants, bakeries as by street vendors, but there are only a few bars that can give you the real Arancina Experience, only palermhotels can say to you, where to eat the top Arancina in Palermo.

Best Arancine in town: 

  1. Bar Touring via Lincoln 15, (in front of Villa Giulia)
  2. Bar Bristol via E. Amari 28, (Near Palermo Port)
  3. Bar Accardi, via G. Amoroso 1 (Villaggio Santa Rosalia neighborhood)
  4. Bar Alba Piazza Don Bosco 7 (Airport area)

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