In Palermo, there was one place called Pastory, a pasta place of course, that serves an espresso with a heaping spoonful of pistachio sweet cream that was a nice interesting spin on sweetening the coffee. 

Also in Palermo, there is a place called cafe stagnita, which offers you a chance to have premium beans from Nepal, Hawaii, and even Kopi Luwak beans. That’s a first for me. I tried them all and relative to the price, found the Nepal beans as the best value. But I couldn’t really get a cappuccino here. They tend to use only one shot of espresso, so it’s a much greater ratio of milk that I prefer.

One other place to mention is in Modica, called Martin Cafe. This is the only place where I had something resembling a third wave coffee, with the cappuccino I ordered including latte art and a proper amount of milk. Unfortunately, I found the coffee lacking acidity and body, with nothing special in the taste characteristics. The non-dairy milk also far too sweet, but if you’re looking for something that is close to what you’re used to, this place is still worth stopping by.