If you’re planning a vacation in Trapani, then you definitely need to know about the best places to eat in Trapani. The wonderful seaside city of Trapani is situated right on the promontory of ancient Drepanum, a Latin name meaning “sickle” due to the shape of the peninsula on which it stands.
One interesting thing to note about Trapani is that there are a multitude of restaurants, and the quality of the dining is so high that it’s really inevitable to talk about it, as you deserve to know where to go to eat without being disappointed.
The first pizzeria we want to recommend is La Perla, a high-level restaurant always ready to welcome you for lunches, dinners, and aperitifs with surprising dishes and exceptional pizzas. Here there’s a particular tradition in the truest sense of the term, as La Perla has been open for over thirty years and has always maintained the traditional style in the dough, made with local flour.
The pizza menu is quite small, with only a few options, all prepared with the freshest ingredients and studied with extreme care. We recommend trying the Patanorcia, with mozzarella, sausage, and oven-baked potatoes, or perhaps the Caprese with Bresaola seasoned with buffalo mozzarella DOP, fresh tomato, and Bresaola.
Another excellent pizzeria is Fontanarossa. This pizzeria enjoys a beautiful and fantastic panoramic location and is located on the road between Erice and Trapani, where nature takes all its spaces to be the secret ingredient. Here the pizza is even better due to the long leavening, especially because of the use of the traditional wood-fired oven.
Here’s where to eat in Trapani: the best places
A must-try here is definitely the Pistacchiosa, with tomato, mozzarella, mortadella, pistachio granules, basil pesto, and shavings of Grana cheese, or perhaps the Gamberi e Pesto, with tomato, mozzarella, basil, and shrimp.
Recently arrived but already a protagonist in the Trapani pizza scene, Pizza Gourmet is born from the intuition of the very skilled pizza maker Mario Signore, who always experiments with new pizza toppings that break with tradition and instead bring creative and perfectly fitting flavors.
The base of the pizza here is made from selected volcanic flours, mainly durum wheat, which give rise to a tasty high-hydration dough matured for a minimum of 36 hours. Let yourself be enchanted by the goodness of Pizza Gourmet and without any hesitation order their Gourmet pizza composed of green pesto, red shrimp from Mazara del Vallo, and buffalo mozzarella DOP.
Finally, we recommend La Tavernetta where the ace in the hole is definitely the patate Vastase, a typical Trapani recipe that can easily be found in other restaurants and pizzerias in Trapani that we mentioned, and they are always delicious, but here they certainly have an extra touch.
But what does “vastase” mean? In Sicilian dialect, this is a derogatory term meaning “rude”, but it’s clear that here it should be understood in its playful sense, meaning “exaggerated, over the top”. And the patate vastase are just that, over the top!
