Granita Brioche appears as a signature dish in 1 Italy cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Granita with brioche col tuppo · Palermo
Granita is a Sicilian semi-frozen flavoured ice (almond, mulberry, coffee, lemon) eaten with brioche col tuppo, a fluffy yeasted breakfast bun, the Palermitan summer breakfast rite.
Granita traces to Arab sherbet, brought to 9th-century Sicily by the Aghlabid conquest. The Arab snow-and-honey form evolved during the Norman period into the modern flavoured-ice version, sweetened with cane sugar from the new Sicilian sugar refineries. The pairing with the topknot brioche is a 19th-century Palermitan ritual that survives intact.
Where to eat in Palermo:
- Gelateria Stancampiano
- Bar Pasticceria Alba
- Antico Caffe Spinnato