Terrace over Villa Bellini · Catania
La Capannina,
the best pizzeria
on Villa Bellini, Catania.
Two doughs, live music and a terrace facing the Bellini gardens. Via Sant'Euplio, in the heart of Catania.
Pizza
The oven
Music
Terrace
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The place
Two dining rooms, a terrace,
and the gardens across the road.
We are on Via Sant'Euplio, along the flank of Villa Bellini. Two dining rooms downstairs; upstairs the terrace, which on summer evenings is the best seat in the house: you eat looking into the crowns of the garden's palms.
The kitchen is a bistrot's, with a serious wood oven behind it: Sicilian starters, long-fermented pizza, and a wine list made almost entirely of Etna labels.
Traditional and Perciasacchi
documented in Sicily since
to the public
across the street
Live
Music lives here.
Jazz, swing, songwriters: we play live, indoors and on the terrace. Small line-ups, sane volume, you can still talk across the table. On concert nights it pays to book — the terrace goes quickly.
The thread
Our pizzas are named
after operas.
Vincenzo Bellini was born in Catania. His Norma premiered in 1831, and ever since, in Sicily, calling something «a Norma» means it was done perfectly — which is exactly how pasta alla Norma got its name.
The garden across the road carries his name. So do our pizzas: Norma, Aida, Traviata, Nabucco. And beside them the streets of home — Etnea, Duomo, Sant'Euplio, which happens to be ours.
The table
Two doughs.
One is ancient.
The Traditional is what you expect, done properly: long fermentation, a light rim, a fast bake.
Perciasacchi is an ancient Sicilian durum wheat — the name means «sack-piercer», after the sharp tip that tore through the jute sacks it travelled in. Documented in Sicily since 1809 and catalogued by Ugo De Cillis in 1941. It bakes darker, smells deeper, and finishes on hazelnut.
Across the road
The city's oldest
garden.
It began as the private labyrinth of the Prince of Biscari. The city bought it in 1854 and opened it to the public on 6 January 1883, naming it after Bellini. Inside there is a clock made of flowers, an 1879 cast-iron bandstand, and a terrace the Catanesi call the balcony over the centre — from there you see Etna above the domes.
Book
A table,
on the terrace if we can.
Write to us here and we'll confirm by email. For tonight, or for parties over eight, a phone call is faster.