Raw seafood. As fresh and delicious as it gets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWe ordered a bottle of white wine, a local one that was a bit too sweet for me. On our next visit, we found out just to take the house white wine. That one comes, (as is pretty standard in Italy) in carafes of 0,5 or 1,0 l. It costs next to nothing and is dry and goes excellent with the seafood menu.<\/p>\n
Seafood pasta as you only get it in Sicily!<\/h3>\n After the amazing Crudo, we shared one starter (primi), the spaghetti allo\u00a0scoglio. It’s probably the best pasta dish we’ve ever had.<\/p>\n
A super fresh blend of seafood: mussels, prawns, white fish and squid prepared with white wine, some seafood stock and the excellent and super sweet local ciliegino tomatoes. You’ll see tomatoes growing everywhere you drive in that region and no wonder they’re known as the best tomatoes in the world. Be sure to eat a lot and notice how much better tomato-based dishes taste here. Extremely simple, but a taste you need the best ingredients to create.<\/p>\n
Ciliegino tomatoes and scorpion fish<\/h3>\n Then we had two main courses (secondi), two different fishplates. One was a scorpion fish in “soup”, which was the same lightly roasted, amazing tomatoes with a bit of liquid served alongside crispy toasted bread, to soak up the liquid like a scarpetta (scarpetta means shoe and is Italian “slang” for that piece of bread, used to soak up remaining sauce in your plate.)<\/p>\n
The fish was tender and meaty with a bit of chew a bit like monkfish. It was pretty tricky to eat, so don’t be too proud (like Matias,) to say yes, when the waiter offers to prepare the fish for you.<\/p>\n
We said\u00a0thank you, with a bill that amazed us, because it was so cheap compared to the fresh ingredients, service, and experience we’ve had.<\/p>\n
So good we had to go back again<\/h3>\n When we came back to Sicily this year for our friends’ wedding, we went to Portopalo to stay for a night afterward, because we wanted to eat at restaurant Scala again.<\/p>\n
We went by Scala at lunchtime, to book a table for the evening and\u00a0actually just had a sandwich for lunch. But then we couldn’t help ourselves and ordered two of their amazing spaghetti allo Scoglio to share the three of us.<\/p>\n
.. And again for dinner<\/h3>\n In the evening we returned for our booked table, after a long afternoon in the sun. Sixten was now 3 years old and a much better restaurant guest than the last time. He borrowed a pen from the sweet waitress and painted while waiting with patience for his black pasta.<\/p>\n
The pasta was worth the short wait. Perfectly cooked spaghetti with cuttlefish cooked in its own ink, made for a black as night pasta dish, with a rich and deep seafood flavor – classic and super good! The dish was served with fresh and warm and slightly salty ricotta on the side, to mix in. This was such a good addition, and made the pasta even creamier and added just the right amount of salt. Simple perfection!<\/p>\n <\/a>🍝❤️<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFor our main course, we also repeated something from last visit: the scorpion fish in soup. This was just as good, and maybe even better since we ordered a large 2-3 portion fish which – after getting it prepared by the waitress – produced large chunks of delicious fish, and that ciliegino based soup with crispy croutons is just to die for!<\/p>\n
In the end, we wrapped it up with simple almond and chocolate semifreddo. A great sweet and fresh end to a simple, but perfect meal!<\/p>\n
Address: Restaurant Scala\u00a0Via Giosu\u00e8 Carducci, 11, 96010 Portopalo di Capo Passero<\/a>.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.ristoranteportopaloscala.it<\/a><\/p>\nGetting to and from Portopalo<\/h2>\n From Catania airport, by car, it takes 1.20h to reach Portopalo. The local bus company AST, leaves from Modica<\/a>, Ragusa, Marzamemi, and Siracusa. It’s like many places in Sicily easiest to go there by car and there is parking close to the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portopalo di Capo Passero is a small fishing village, in the very southeastern corner of Sicily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n \n