Eat Out London!Franzina Trattoria
Franzina Trattoria offers the finest Italian cuisine in Brixton. We serve timeless Sicilian cuisine from the contemporary setting of Pop Brixton, great service and fair prices in the contemporary surroundings of Pop Brixton.
Franzina Trattoria | Italian Restaurant in Brixton, London. Sicilian Cuisine.
Drawing upon the ancient tradition of family-run tavernas in Palermo, we aim to serve you no-fuss, wholesome dishes to go with a glass of wine and a chat.
This is the food that we enjoy eating, the authentic taste of our homeland, Sicily.
Our menu changes daily, using the freshest picks of locally sourced produce, which our chef Pietro uses to concoct traditional dishes with a twist.
Explore Sicily’s culinary tradition: discover panelle, arancine and sfincione – perfect for a quick lunch, or to take away.
Our food is our passion.
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Franzina Trattoria | Italian Restaurant in Brixton, London. Sicilian ...
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Drawing upon the ancient tradition of family-run tavernas in Palermo, we aim to serve you no-fuss, wholesome dishes to go with a glass of wine and a chat.
This is the food that we enjoy eating, the authentic taste of our homeland, Sicily.
Our menu changes daily, using the freshest picks of locally sourced produce, which our chef Pietro uses to concoct traditional dishes with a twist.
Explore Sicily’s culinary tradition: discover panelle, arancine and sfincione – perfect for a quick lunch, or to take away.
Our food is our passion.
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Restaurant in Residence: Franzina Trattoria | Pop Brixton
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Pop Brixton is here to give people a chance to start and grow businesses.
Here we'll be inviting young food businesses from the local area to join our community for short term residencies, to show off their food in the heart of Brixton.
We caught up with Pietro and Stefania, two Sicilians from Palmero, to talk about their pop-up food residency and why Brixton already feels like home.
In Palermo they are 'schiticchio': small rations of local delicacies to welcome the wine, as the locals say What can people expect from a visit to your restaurant?
Pietro has worked in some of Italy's most famous restaurants and Stefania is a chemist What was it that attracted you to set up shop in Pop Brixton?
Franzina Trattoria
Sicilian style cafe, Franzina Trattoria is run by Pietro and Stefania, two Sicilians from Palermo.
It's is our latest 'Restaurant in Residence' - here for a few months to bring the taste of the Italian islands to Brixton.
Franzina specialise in Sicilian small plates, serving up beautifully presented, traditional dishes, using locally sourced ingredients.
They also stock a selection of Italian wines to wash down your meal.
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It’s not yet necessary to go full smuggler for a taste of what one of these containers might look like.
To begin, the wise choice is a platter which takes in sfincione, a fluffy Sicilian focaccia topped with anchovies, tomato and onion, as well as plump green olives, a tangy caponata, juicy deep-fried balls of aubergine, and croquette-esque chickpea fritters called cazzilli e panelle.
The best may well be the simplest: a sauce of slightly sweet confit tomato lavished with soft shavings of ricotta and mint leaves.
Do share a bottle of the restaurant’s excellent and interesting Sicilian wine, though.
Nero di lupo is earthy and edgy — as so many Sicilian reds are — gaining sexy, subtle muddy flavours from its biodynamic production (Sicily is the natural wine capital of Italy) and a unique minerality from the island’s volcanic soil.
Franzina Trattoria | Restaurants in Brixton, London
This Pop Brixton fixture deals in Sicilian schiticchio (small plates) and pitittu (sharing platters), with the option to wash them all down with something from their all-Italian wine list.
The schiticchio include home-made Sicilian focaccia with caciocavallo cheese and an onion and tomato sauce, bruschetta marmalate (with anchovies, ricotta and marmalade), arancina with Sicilian beef ragu and char-grilled octopus with lemon, olive oil and sea salt.
Larger plates to share include caponata Siciliana and sarde a beccafico con profume di Sicilia – sardines with pine nuts, raisins, mint and blood orange.
Desserts include a dark chocolate soufflé, tiramisu and sfingette - small Sicilian doughnuts with sugar and cinnamon, or ricotta and chocolate.