The Original Catania Street Food and Local Market Tour

Streaty_Staff — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:21:17 +0000

WHAT YOU’LL DO

You can’t come to Sicily and skip the picturesque fish market of Catania, you just can’t! Take a walk with a Catanese friend around the market and enjoy the best local street food at places hung out by real Sicilians. Your Catanese friend is…us, and this memorable experience is called Catania street food and fish market tour.

During our street food and fish market tour of Catania, we will show you our favorite spots and offer you the best daily selection of fried and baked street food. The arancini are good everywhere but the arancini at Mamma Agata are unforgettable! We offer a three hour easy walk around the city center with a local laid back guide. We will make you love Catania as we do.
You will roam around the fish mongers selling the fresh catch of the day, locals bartering and locals greeting one another. Just a day in the life of the market. And you won’t be alone in this, we will be there to give you what we call the Matrix effect: you will see reality through our Sicilian eyes.
On our morning street food tour of Catania you will learn many interesting facts and curiosities about Sicilian cuisine and also about our habits and street culture.
This isn’t all! We will literally take you under Catania to see a hidden lava tunnel located downtown and totally unknown among the tourists. So you will experience Catania upside down, from the food benches of the Pescheria market to the suggestive lava belly, from the old men garden of Villa Pacini to the majestic medieval Castello Ursino. Our street food and local market tour of Catania is food, history, culture, traditions, all combined in a fun and relaxing experience. You will gain and burn calories till the very last stop, where you will be served of a delicious seasonal dessert!

*SUNDAY TOURS: on Sunday morning the fish market is closed, however our selected street food vendors are regularly open.

WHAT YOU’LL EAT & DRINK

Here is the list of tastings typically served on Streaty Catania Street Food & Market Tour.

Sarde a beccafico: fish rolls
Insalata di polpo: octopus salad
Seasonal fruit shopped at the market
Baked cheese
Original Arancini
Siciliana: soft fried pastry with cheese
Cipollina: baked savory pastry
Streaty treat of the day
Granita or Minnuzza Cake with ricotta
3 Sicilian drinks: wine, beer, local soda

Please note
The selection may vary depending on the day and the seasonal availability of certain products. The quantity of food offered on this tour makes a full meal.

Dietary Info
This tour is suitable for vegetarians and pescatarians. This tour is not suitable for vegans. This tour is not recommended for travelers on a low carb diet. We only offer what locals eat, not what tourists expect. Please remember to fill in the dietary requirements field when making your reservation. If we are not informed in advance, we may not be able to offer alternative tastings.

Drink info
Beer is the recommended drink to pair with street food, however, at some stop you can have wine as alternative drink. We are trying to save plastic so please bring your water bottle.

WHY JOIN THIS TOUR

EXPLORE the fish market of Pescheria led by a local food expert

STEP INSIDE a hidden lava tunnel you would hardly find on your own

TASTE the best baked cipollina downtown

MEET the locals and make new friends with other travelers!

LEARN about everyday life in Catania through your guide’s personal stories

GET the best tips to enjoy the city and avoid tourist traps

IS THIS THE RIGHT TOUR FOR YOU

This tour is the perfect choice for foodie travelers who want to try new flavors, eat, drink and make new friends.
This tour is not suitable for travelers with limited standing or walking capacity (seats are not guaranteed during the tastings), picky eaters and travelers on a low carb diet, vegans, vegetarians and travelers allergic to dairy or gluten. Street food in Catania is deliciously fried and full of carbs!

WHAT’S SO COOL ABOUT STREATY

Travelers love us because on Streaty tours they get the unexpected. In fact, We do not serve random pizzas or gelatos just to make tourists happy. We don’t care what tourists like. We offer genuine and unfiltered culinary experiences, unveiling the rich tapestry of regional flavors. We want you to savor the very essence of the dishes we grew up with, and this often happens out of your comfort zone. Travelers choose us because they know they will be guided by a laidback local guide genuinely committed to share knowledge, stories and tips without setting filters for tourists.

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Small-Group Catania Street Food Tour by Night

Streaty_Staff — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:14:58 +0000

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Many travelers prefer to hike Mount Etna during the day and reserve the evening for a relaxing dinner in Catania. But if you wanna add more thrill to your evening, join our all-inclusive night street food tour of Catania. Step off your comfort zone and get ready to experience a night out in real Catania with a real Catanese guide.

WHAT YOU’LL DO
We will meet you at the elegant piazza Duomo ready to hit the tasty road. We will walk you around the backstreets of the Pescheria and Civita area to make you fall in love with Catania. And can there be love without food?! The evening street food tour of Catania celebrates its start with a delicious Cipollina and a beer toast. This is just to make you comfortable before we pull you into a secret lava tunnel!
The night street food walking tour of Catania is an interesting bouquet of food, culture and history. This is why we highly recommend you do this tour as first activity in town.
Stretch your belly, because you will have to try the most famous catanese street food specialty: the horse meat! We will not take you to a fancy burger shop but to a historical family-run butchery. This place is located in the district of Civita, where tourists don’t go and where the real street spirit of Catania has its home. We will show you things and places you couldn’t find on your own,we will share food stories and facts unwritten on traditional guidebooks, we will raise the glass together, we will spend a night out as a bunch of friends enjoying Catania and its street spirit!

WHAT YOU’LL EAT & DRINK

Here is the list of tastings typically served on our Streaty Catania Night Street Food Tour.

Arancini with pistachio
Cipollina: Catanese puff pastry with cheese
Polpetta di Cavallo: for real foodies!
Cipollata: pancetta and spring onion
Crispella salata with cheese and anchovy
Crispella dolce with honey
Fish bites of the day
Granita or Minnuzza cake
3 Sicilian drinks

Please note
The selection may vary depending on the day and the seasonal availability of certain products. The quantity of food offered on this tour makes a full meal.

Dietary Info
This tour is suitable for vegetarians and pescatarians. This tour is not suitable for vegans. This tour is not recommended for travelers on a low carb diet. We only offer what locals eat, not what tourists expect.

Drink info
Beer is the recommended drink to pair with street food, however, at some stop you can have wine as alternative drink. We are trying to save plastic so please bring your water bottle.

WHY JOIN THIS TOUR

TASTE foods totally unknown among tourists like the super crispy crispellas!

LEARN about the dark and the bright side of everyday life in Catania

MEET the locals and make new friends with other travelers!

GET the best tips to enjoy the city avoiding from tourist traps

SKIP the morning heat and have a relaxing exploration of Catania backstreets

IS THIS THE RIGHT TOUR FOR YOU?

This tour is the perfect choice for foodie travelers who want to try new flavors, eat, drink and make new friends.
This tour is not suitable for travelers with limited standing or walking capacity (seats are not guaranteed during the tastings), picky eaters and travelers on a low carb diet, vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians and travelers allergic to dairy or gluten. Street food in Catania is deliciously fried and full of carbs!

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The Original Catania Street Food and Local Market Tour

Small-Group Catania Street Food Tour by Night