You can't leave Palermo without having tasted a good foccaccia with spleen, it's a part of every real Palermo Experience. An ancient, traditonal treat of Palermo's street cusin, this focaccia is sandwich made of fried beef spleen served with some drops of lemon juice, salt, and in some cases with a little local, caciocavallo cheese.

If you want to eat the real pane con la milza ( bread with spleen), in Palermo you have to look for street vendors around the streets, it is served also in some restaurants, but, it's street food, so it should be eaten in the streets, standing, in the traditional way. This sandwich is going to be prepared in fronto of you, the spleen is fried in big, round pot were small, soft slices of spleen are fried in the liquid lard. The street spleen sandwich vendor (called meusaro) is going to stuff your focaccia in front of you, with a few slices of soft spleen, and than adding to them salt and some drops of lemon juice, than he is going to give  you the focaccia warped in paper napkin. The unique flavor of pane con la milza, is one of the best culinary experiences you can have here in Palermo, the king of the street food of Palermo. It may leave your fingers a little bit sticky, but it's not a big problem. Palermhotels is going to show to his costumer a the real life of this city, only booking a room with us you are going to have a real Palermo experience, not just an holiday. If you love the real authentic experiences stay with palermhotels.