La Prosciutteria Gourmet — Restaurant in Capo d'Orlando

It seems there’s a bit of a tradition in Capo D’Orlando that on the weekend of the Capo Festival honouring Maria SS, a few of the local bars sell this special pork sausage in a bun.

La Prosciutteria had a pork sausage and beer deal going so I figured I had better join the locals and try out this local delicacy.

I do enjoy a good pork sausage and this one lived up to the expectation. It was served with onions and a touch of mayonaise in a toasted bun. The beer was very cold - that’s just the way I like it.

The man cooking the sausages on the bbq had a hair dryer blowing air over the sausages. I have no idea why but it certainly looked like he knew what...

I ordered 8 different paninis with a very reasonable price in total 38euro. The shrimp sandwich was priced the highest, yet the worst in quality more like a scam sandwich without any local ingredient. The shrimps were fake disgusting sashimi like in the picture.

Unfortunately I realized that after I came back to my hotel far away from Orlando. The other sandwiches below average, with processed ingredients, nothing local (even the pesto and burrata were store bought.

So summarized big disappointment very bad experience, worst so...

The Buongustaio had to be one of the best panini I had this trip. Really understated sandwich shop where the food is more than the sum of its parts. The staff are extremely sweet, and we are here multiple times. You’ll see why.

Tip for vegetarians: they will absolutely do substitutions if asked, so try one of the crazy sandwich combos with tomato or mushroom instead of meat. The one vegetarian sandwich on the menu is not super exciting, but the modified versions of the others...