Photographs

What it looks like,
before you come.

These are our own photographs, taken on ordinary evenings: the terrace upstairs, the dining room, the lit oven, the long tables of the music nights. None has been retouched to look like somewhere else.

All 21 The place 5 The terrace 3 From the kitchen 7 The evenings 2 Villa Bellini 4
Tables laid on the terrace, with the treetops of Villa Bellini beyond the glass The terrace, laid for dinner Pizza and glasses on a terrace table at sunset, under the string lights The lights come on early The long terrace table laid for service, looking out over the trees of the garden The long table on the terrace The white tables outside the restaurant along the street, under the awnings The entrance on Via Sant'Euplio The restaurant front seen from the pavement, with the "Pizza & Vino" sign Pizza & Vino, from the street The indoor room with pale wooden tables and the large clock on the wall The ground-floor room The bar counter with bottles arranged on the wall behind it The bar and the wine wall A board of cured meats and cheeses seen from above, next to an aperitif glass A board and a spritz A white pizza with pistachio cream, folded mortadella and chopped pistachio Mortadella and pistachio A pizza with raw ham, burrata in the middle, rocket and cheese shavings, seen from above Raw ham, burrata and rocket A pizza inside the wood-fired oven, lit by the flame The mouth of the oven A plate of pasta with a golden cream sauce and a crisp topping From the kitchen, not only pizza Sliced beef next to grilled vegetables on a red board Sliced beef and grilled vegetables A tomahawk steak served with potatoes and salad leaves A tomahawk for two The wine wall behind the counter, bottles lined up in their racks Choosing the wine A long table of guests in the indoor room during an evening The long tables of long evenings A saxophone player performing, seen close up Live music Snow-capped Etna seen from the Villa Bellini garden, beyond the statues and the iron railing Etna, seen from the garden A stone fountain in the shade of the trees of Villa Bellini A fountain in the garden The garden's round basin with its jet of water, the esplanade, and the buildings of Catania behind The basin and the esplanade The living-calendar flower bed of Villa Bellini, the date spelled out in flowers The living calendar

The photographs of the restaurant are our own. Those of Villa Bellini show the public garden across the street.

The best place to see it from

It is quite another thing in person.

On music nights the terrace fills up early. Thirty seconds are enough to hold a table.

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