Focacceria San Francesco
Palermo, Italy
The read// why locals go
Trading on Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi since 1834, Focacceria San Francesco is where Palermo's street food moved indoors without losing its nerve. The square gives it a setting few street-food counters could dream of — the raw stone front of the thirteenth-century church directly opposite — but the counter itself is unsentimental. This is the Palermo canon: the spleen sandwich, chickpea fritters, the fried things the city built its eating culture on, sold for around €8 and eaten fast, often standing. It runs as a lunchtime address in the heart of the old city. Nearly two centuries in, it remains the reference point against which Palermitani measure everyone else's version.
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Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi 22, 90133 — Palermo
Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi 22, 90133 — Palermo
The read// why locals go
Trading on Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi since 1834, Focacceria San Francesco is where Palermo's street food moved indoors without losing its nerve. The square gives it a setting few street-food counters could dream of — the raw stone front of the thirteenth-century church directly opposite — but the counter itself is unsentimental. This is the Palermo canon: the spleen sandwich, chickpea fritters, the fried things the city built its eating culture on, sold for around €8 and eaten fast, often standing. It runs as a lunchtime address in the heart of the old city. Nearly two centuries in, it remains the reference point against which Palermitani measure everyone else's version.