Bar Pasticceria Alba is a cafe in Liberta, Palermo.
Editorially verified May 21, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Granita di mandorla con brioche is the Palermitan summer breakfast. Cannoli filled to order.
Address: Piazza Don Bosco 7/C, 90143 Palermo
Stancampiano on Via Notarbartolo in Palermo's Liberta is the city's reference granita-and-brioche counter, three generations of family operation.
Signature drink: Granita di mandorla, brioche col tuppo
Tip: Brioche col tuppo with granita di mandorla or pistacchio is the Palermitan summer breakfast.
Pasticceria Costa on Via D'Annunzio in Palermo's Liberta is a senior Setteveli pasticceria-cafe, with espresso bar and monoporzione case for sit-down.
Signature drink: Espresso with Setteveli or cannolo
Tip: Setteveli monoporzione with espresso. The morning monoporzione case has seasonal flavours.
Pasticceria Cappello on Via Colonna Rotta is home to the Sicilian Setteveli, Palermo's defining seven-veil chocolate cake refined by Salvatore Cappello AMPI.
Signature drink: Espresso with Setteveli
Tip: Setteveli single slice with espresso. Closed Monday. Second branch on Via Nicolo Garzilli 19.
Stancampiano on Via Notarbartolo in Palermo's Liberta is the city's reference granita-and-brioche counter, three generations of family operation.
Signature drink: Granita di mandorla, brioche col tuppo
Tip: Brioche col tuppo with granita di mandorla or pistacchio is the Palermitan summer breakfast.
Moltivolti's daytime cafe-coworking room on Via Puglia in Palermo's Ballaro serves espresso, North African and West African tea alongside Sicilian breakfast.
Signature drink: Espresso, Senegalese karkade
Tip: Coworking by day, restaurant by night. Karkade tea is the unusual order; the courtyard seats fill first.
The dolceria inside the Santa Caterina d'Alessandria monastery off Piazza Bellini in Palermo serves convent-recipe Sicilian sweets with espresso.
Signature drink: Espresso, granita di gelsi
Tip: Entrance is on Via Discesa dei Giudici 33, behind the Piazza Bellini facade. Granita di gelsi (mulberry granita) is the summer order with cannolo.
Bar Touring on Via Ruggero Settimo in Palermo's Politeama is the working-Palermitan morning cafe, espresso al banco, cassatina and arancina.
Signature drink: Espresso, cassatina
Tip: Arrive 07:30-09:30 for the local crowd. Espresso al banco one euro.
Pasticceria Costa on Via D'Annunzio in Palermo's Liberta is a senior Setteveli pasticceria-cafe, with espresso bar and monoporzione case for sit-down.
Signature drink: Espresso with Setteveli or cannolo
Tip: Setteveli monoporzione with espresso. The morning monoporzione case has seasonal flavours.
