
If, however, it is pizza you are looking for, then search no more! The Hotel L’Ancora also features a pizzeria, known for its great variety of pizzas prepared with fresh ingredients and cooked in a traditional oven.

Furthermore, the wine list includes a large selection of fine wines from some of the best producers in the area. If your tastes do not go towards fish, however, no worries – the menu also features numerous appetizers, pasta dishes, and side dishes, as well as the famous Sicilian desserts. Customers, moreover, have the opportunity to choose the type of fish they want which is then cooked by the hotel’s chef following recipes typical of the area. The seafood served here is especially renown as it is often the result of the day’s catch and thus absolutely fresh. This location is famous both with tourists and with the locals for the quality of its cuisine. This type of fish was and is in fact an important ingredient in many Sicilian recipes.īut where can you taste all these, and many more, delicacies? The beautiful restaurant of the Hotel L’Ancora is ready to welcome you. Moving from side dishes to main courses, Avola itself is home to the old "Tonnara", a particular set of traps perfect for catching tuna. Not far from Avola, in fact, is the town of Pachino, where the small, cherry-like tomatoes come from. While these delicacies, together with the world-famous "cannolo", are what always springs to mind when thinking about eating in Sicily, they are not the sum total of what this beautiful region has to offer. These two products are featured in other staples of Sicilian cuisine such as almond milk, granita and water ices, nougat, sugared almonds, and almond paste biscuits as well as the famous marzipan sweets shaped as apples and other fruits. Other important cultures apart from grapes are those of almonds and lemons, which were started in the mid 19th century and never abandoned since. A small town situated in the province of Siracusa, Avola is best known for its vineyards that produce the famous red wine – Nero d’Avola.

One of the most famous cuisines is the one typical to Sicily, the region in the south of Italy where Avola is located. Italy is renown throughout the world for its cuisine – it is one of the staples of the country – and the debate on which region has the best culinary tradition is still raging today. Explore Sicily and Enjoy the Hospitality of Hotel L'Ancora in Avola
