Who knew there was a Michelin-starred restaurant in Catania of all places?? Our eldest son Robert, that’s who! We’d been looking forward to this for a while, and tonight’s the night, and even better, he’s treating the whole family!
And here we are: Sapio in Catania! After the loud hustle & bustle of the streets, this place felt like a sanctuary: calm, quiet, and delicious!
The restaurant had a very demur ambiance which my phone’s camera totally couldn’t deal with, so I had to crank up the brightness on most of the following pictures–it took me a while to improve them enough to even post! So if some look washed out, that’s why.
Oh, and check out the centerpieces! The tall items are breadsticks with an incredible flavor, and the smaller pieces are various crackers. The black thing in the center? We guessed it was a big piece of pumice from Mt Etna, seemed very fitting!
The meal has been a fantastic experience in every way, but Europeans being Europeans, you know all kinds of crazy is going to break out for dessert. And we weren’t disappointed, it was suddenly full-on European dessert insanity… absolutely nothing about it makes any sense, despite a speech beforehand explaining the incredible depths of thought which had gone into it all… thoughts which apparently didn’t involve taste, flavor, or enjoyment 😂 Somehow it just got funnier and funnier, as more and more bizarre items showed up.
This amazing dinner is nearly finished… four hours in!
But then, in a moment that took me so by surprise that I couldn’t take a picture, the head waiter shocked us by grabbing a large mallet and smashing the Mt Etna lava piece!
As it turns out, it was NOT a piece of lava: it was a sugar-based creation of the restaurant’s in which were hidden some final candies (on the off chance anyone was still hungry)!!!
It was a pretty dramatic end to a pretty amazing meal. Four hours worth of surprises, laughter, AMAZING wines which I somehow forgot to take pictures of… and I’m still not sure I’ll ever be hungry again, wow what a feast! I would totally do this again some day, it was an experience to remember!
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