La Madia – Licata
La Madia: Creative authenticity
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Corso Filippo Re Capriata 22 92027 Licata, Sicily, Italy | |
0039 0922 771443 | |
www.ristorantelamadia.it |
Chef: Pino Cuttaia
Licata is a small Sicilian rural town in South Sicily and almost entirely unknown to people outside of Sicily. Licata is located at the mouth of the Salso River and is a seaport city developed at the turn of the twentieth century. It takes few hours of driving from any of Sicily’s main airports to get there while you will enjoy the beautiful landscapes of Sicily.
Combine your visit to the restaurant with a stop in the beautiful Agrigento Temple Valley. When you finally get to Licata you will most likely have some difficulties with finding restaurant La Madia. The restaurant is tucked away on a busy street with no clear signs revealing it. After asking several locals about where it is you will end up at a locked door and the restaurant definitely looks closed. But ring the doorbell and Chef Pino Cuttaia and his team open their world of culinary excitement and will welcome you for a Sicilian fine dining experience.
Chef Pino brings the dishes of the Sicilian gastronomic heritage back to life by using modern techniques. Simplicity, intensity and creativity enhance new elegance to traditional recipes, allowing flavours of an interesting country to return to mind again. Amazing taste explosions that will open you up again and embrace you with the lightness of a sea breeze. Choose one of his tasting menus; Classico or Creativo and you are in for modern Sicilian excitement.
Chef Pino runs his restaurant together with his wife Loredana. Almost everything you eat is locally produced including the herbs and vegetables, which come from Loredana’s father’s garden.
La Madia, originally founded in 2000, recently made a total renovation and changed the interior. Each of the dishes has a pinch of memory. Each dish, with simplicity tries to tell a story. You might have had the big octopus or the beef and the mozzarella numerous times before, but never like you will have it at restaurant La Madia.
Menu: Il mare inaspettato…
Pizzaiola with lotte fish and a potato sauce
Anchovy and tomato sauce with bread varieties
Welcome dish Caprese style: espuma of very light burrata with a skin of burrata and a jus of datterini tomatoes
Carpaccio of gambero rosso with a circle of bottarga mayonnaise and lemon oil
Polpo sulla roccia – Octopus on the rock:
Raviolo di calamaro ripieno di tinniruma di cucuzza: ravioli of cuttlefish with puree of Sicilian greens, scampi and a sauce of anchovy and shrimps.
Pasta e minestra di crostacei – Pasta and shellfish soup
Filetto di manzo lisciato all’olio di cenere – beef tenderloin with oil of ash and combined with salted potatoes
Cannolo with ricotta cheese and ice cream of 20 year old marsala
Pie of ice tart with Marsala ice and pistachio
Chef Pino uses three elements as a base; product, colour, and texture. All this in a well balanced way and with an emphasis on telling some childhood stories. A must stop when travelling to Sicily!
Be-Gusto
Be-Gusto score: 8/10
Be-Gusto value for money: 8,2/10
La Madia
Corso Filippo Re Capriata 22
92027 Licata, Sicily, Italy
Phone: +39 0922 771443