La Vucciria

Once the city's main provisions market and now a smaller cluster of stalls and fry counters, La Vucciria keeps the three hardest items of the Palermo offal repertoire in one place: stigghiola, pani ca' meusa, and frittola — the scraps and cartilage left from butchering, slow-cooked and served warm from a covered basket. The frittolaro is the vendor to look for; the dish is rarely sold outside the historic markets. Vehicles are kept out, so the whole thing is walked.

Category: Food & Drink

Tags: market, frittola, stigghiola, spleen, offal

Coordinates: 38.1179576, 13.3632631

Part of Palermo counters that cook only offal — spleen, intestine, tripe, frittola

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