The Top 17 Restaurants Near Osteria il Moro
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Rank 1. Osteria il Moro
Sicilian
Osteria il Moro sits along Trapani's main thoroughfare with a terrace for watching the town go by. It's a contemporary Sicilian restaurant where the kitchen leans hard on the sea but makes room for a braised cheek dish finished with a centuries-old chocolate sauce that sounds wrong and tastes like the point of the whole trip. The wine list keeps things regional without feeling provincial. Dressier than a trattoria, less formal than you'd expect for cooking this considered.
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Rank 3. Euro Bar Dattilo
Italian
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Rank 4. Profumi di Cous Cous
Sicilian
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Rank 5. Il Bavaglino
Contemporary Italian
The building once cured fish in salt; now a Michelin-starred kitchen uses it to cure its guests of boring meals. Il Bavaglino is a creative contemporary restaurant in Terrasini where the chef builds tasting menus around Sicilian tradition without being enslaved to it, moving comfortably between the sea and land. The local purple prawns, served raw with caviar, olives, and a lemon-ginger coulis, give you a fair sense of the register.
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Rank 6. Salotto sul Mare
Sicilian
A veranda dining room perched above the Tyrrhenian with the sea running to every horizon is a hard setting to argue with. This Sicilian restaurant keeps the cooking clean and ingredient-forward, with an à la carte alongside sharing-style tasting menus and a cocktail list that makes lunchtime feel like a reasonable decision. The Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place that spends its energy on the food.
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Rank 8. La Foresteria
Modern Sicilian Italian
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Rank 9. Mec Restaurant
Sicilian
A Michelin-starred contemporary Sicilian restaurant inside a 16th-century palazzo, almost directly across from the Cathedral, and also, yes, a shrine to Steve Jobs: photographs and memorabilia fill the frescoed rooms. The chef, Carmelo Trentacosti, takes classic recipes and tilts them, a caponata turned into a velvety sauce finished with Modica chocolate being the example everyone mentions. Ask about the balcony on your way out.
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Rank 13. Ciambra
Sicilian
A short walk from the Cathedral of Monreale, this rustic-elegant restaurant makes a strong case for modern Sicilian seafood cookery without letting the modernness get in the way of the flavours. The kitchen leans on pristinely fresh crudo and pasta that bridges tradition and invention, and the desserts have a reputation for outlasting the meal in the memory. A good reason to linger in Monreale longer than the tourist coaches do.
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Rank 14. Corona Trattoria
Sicilian
A family-run trattoria in central Palermo where the menu reads like a love letter to Sicilian seafood, kept short enough that the kitchen means every word of it. The sons came back from abroad, which tends to focus a kitchen's attention. The wine list reaches past Sicily with what regulars describe as fair pricing, which is the part people always mention first. Ranked 25th on 50 Top Italy's modern trattoria list.
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Rank 16. Osteria Mercede
Sicilian
The blackboard changes daily, which is the point. This welcoming Palermo trattoria runs on Sicilian seafood, the kind that reads the morning's catch and builds around it. Local tradition anchors the menu, but the kitchen stays light on its feet, and the house caciucco, a fragrant broth packed with John Dory, scorpionfish, sea bass, prawns, and squid, makes a case for both at once. Leave room for the deconstructed cannolo.
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Rank 17. A' Cuncuma
Sicilian
A small, intimate restaurant in Palermo's historic center where the chef reframes Sicilian classics with a modern eye, meat and fish both getting the treatment. The wine list runs entirely Sicilian, with its own section carved out for Etna wines by subregion, which tells you where the kitchen's loyalties lie. The room is simple and the cooking is the point.