NH Palermo

“Excellent hotel for visiting Palermo old town”

Comfortable room. Quiet. Great little adjoining sitting room with a bed for our son. Excellent breakfast. Nice courtyard/ terrace for breakfast. Nice pool. Charming staff who gave us excellent restaurant recommendations. Excellent location for visiting Palermo old town.

“Culinary gem”

Stayed here for one night, as a stopover between arriving late with car by boat and driving further south next morning. The hotel was as to be expected: good, professional, businesslike, beautiful sea and port side view from the balcony. The restaurant for dinner however was an extraordinary surp... lisää

Stayed here for one night, as a stopover between arriving late with car by boat and driving further south next morning. The hotel was as to be expected: good, professional, businesslike, beautiful sea and port side view from the balcony. The restaurant for dinner however was an extraordinary surprise, that deserves explicit mentioning. Located in a vast, pillared, modern castle-like dining room with a spacious 2-4 person table setup, the host-and-cook tandem (Leo & Fabrizio) offered a small but exquisite menu of fresh pastas, salads, and fish and meat dishes. My fellow traveler and I decided upon an entree (antipasti) and first course (primi), having to get up and leave early next day. She had a 'caponata di pesce spada' (salad-like stew with capers, green olives and swordfish) and a 'risotto alle vongole' (simmered rice with asparagus, celery and shell fish), whereas I had a ´torta di sardines' (grilled and filled rolls of sardines filets, positioned in the shape of a 'torta'), and a 'spaghetti con seppia nera' (black inked spaghetti with squid). Each one of them excellent high quality culinary dishes, with the spaghetti as a truly remarkable signature dish. Subtle tones of salty sea flavors, with an outstanding blending of texture between the pasta and the squid 'meat'. I ended up black-lipped, - tongued and -teethed, but I still couldn't resist scraping my plate dry with the remainder of the fresh bread. Truly very tasteful and very well prepared. We finished off dinner with a 'caffé', and left for a good night's sleep after paying an 80 euro bill (appr. 12.50 per dish, plus 30 for the wine (a red 2019 Donna Fugata)), which is ridiculously cheap compared to prices you pay in the tourist towns down southeast. So ... if you happen to visit Palermo for just one night, or are staying at the NH, make sure you treat yourself to a great dining out at the restaurant at NH to enjoy ambiance & high quality cooking. Highly recommended.

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