The interior room at Caffè Sicilia Getting a table at Caffè Sicilia The front room is where the food is displayed and the coffee bar is, and the back room is a dining area with another handful of tables in it. As you can see, the outdoor dining area has about eight or ten tables. The entrance to Caffè SiciliaĬaffè Sicilia is small. Its unassuming entrance in Noto’s city center could easily be missed. If you haven’t seen the episode, please go watch it now so that we can be friends. The episode on Corrado Assenza and Caffè Sicilia is particularly captivating. If you’ve seen it, you know that he’s the fourth-generation owner and head pasticciere.
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I love the music, the stories, the shots of the chefs’ amazing creations, and the windows it provides onto different cultures. I first heard about Caffè Sicilia on an episode of Chef’s Table (season 4, episode 2). Breakfast at Caffè Sicilia had me brimming with excitement. I remember days and trips according to what I ate. When an amazing culinary experience coincides with travel (I’m lucky it so often does), it is the ultimate fusion of my two passions, and generally causes me to be the happiest I am on the road. Few things make me happier than making food for friends and family, most especially sweets for my sweetheart, who is an expert dessert-eater. I’ve always liked cooking, but over the past few years, I’ve started to get really into it, trying new things, having huge dinner parties, and experimenting with my own recipes ( here’s one for asparagus risotto, and here’s another for Amatriciana).
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Lauded by Alain Ducasse as "le plus grande confisieur du monde" (the greatest confectioner in the world), Assenza enhances the aromas of a season in Sicily, explores local and global ingredients, and plays around with culinary dogmas. His aim has been to "bring to life the anarchic beauty" of a piece of fresh fruit or a dash of icing, without form constraints. Style and legacy Īssenza's desserts avoid the traditional perfect geometries and lacquered appearance of confectioneries. Each of his products features an expression of contemporary material food culture. Since leaving Bologna and returning to his family's pastry shop in Sicily, Assenza has been researching in the shop’s laboratory new processes by which he can bring the intrinsic flavours of both Sicily’s cuisine and some of the world’s to his clients. Assenza, now the fourth generation in this family, runs the pastry shop with his son Francesco. Caffè Sicilia Ĭaffè Sicilia, located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the main street of Noto, has been the pastry shop of Assenza's family since 1892. Assenza later received a call from home, however, and, in 1985, before graduating, returned to his hometown to take over the management of his family's pastry shop, Caffè Sicilia. There he met Giorgio Celli, who led him to study entomology and pushed him to specialize in beekeeping.
Early life and career īorn in Noto in the early 1960s, Assenza left Sicily after high school to enroll at the Faculty of Agriculture (now the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) of the University of Bologna.
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Assenza was featured in the second episode of Netflix's 4-part series Chef’s Table: Pastry in 2018. He operates the Caffè Sicilia, presently considered the "sancta sanctorum" (secret holy place) of the ancient confectionery art of Sicily.
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