Last night in Sicily, dinner with friends

Our last evening in Sicily, we spent with some of Carlo's closest friends at a local restaurant. It was fitted with the name "Tischi Toschi", which is somewhat peculiar...but as it turns out this is what the people from Messina are called that go off to the north of Italy only to return with a "northern Italian" accent. :-)

The restaurant served typical Sicilian cuisine with a slight twist. (Pasta with eggplants, pasta with "Bottarga" (dried fish eggs), Backala, different dishes with meat and wild fennel, wonderful desserts and great olives and bread...



O.k. - believe it or not these pictures were taken BEFORE dinner! :-) The camera was doing some funky things as we had set it on self-timer. It kept taking one picture after another without stopping!!!

A few mor tries...

Tato, Natasha, Antonio V., Renato, Mimmo, Ines Carlo

A shot in the foot! Literally! Haha!

A few more... finally Mimmo is sent on the way to see what's wrong...

Thanks to photographer extraordinaire-Mimmo-we were able to stop the constant flashing!
Now, we were actually able to go inside and start our dinner!

DINNER:




Good friends, sicilian red wine, pasta, fish and dessert....can life get any better?

Some fun closeups of dinner...The food was waaay too good to even attempt posing for a picture!

The lovely Natasha.

Mimmo meditating....

The crema catalan was without words. For once, Marcello was speechless! :-)

Trying some of the dessert... serious business...for sure!



Antonio's frozen berry desert was also too good to pass up...

Renato saw it all pretty mellow...


Oh lala!!!

Tato & Natasha in "Tischi Toschi" heaven...


Yes, really, just married!


Good Bye!!!

P.S. the pages of the book, which the restaurant displayed outside their door, showed the area where we had all spent the day on the boat... We will be back!