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Mistral

Mistral is the Palermo pizzeria that has been making the same napo-siciliana pizza for forty years, and the third place in this set to sell sfincione from a round-pizza menu - here in both the Palermitan and the white versions, at 8 and 9 euro. Vincenzo Pagano records the dough precisely: direct dough, tipo 00 flour, 65 per cent hydration, worked in the Neapolitan manner, with 20 per cent Sicilian durum added - a Sicilian habit he notes younger pizzaioli have been dropping. Ron Garofalo was hauling flour from Naples when he started in the early 1980s, and he sat on the technical jury of the 2018 Sanlorenzo Mercato sfincione contest, which is the trade in Palermo treating him as an authority on it.

Via Bordonaro, 30, 90142 Palermo (Vergine Maria) · Palermo · Neapolitan

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Why it is here

Mistral is the Palermo pizzeria that has been making the same napo-siciliana pizza for forty years, and the third place in this set to sell sfincione from a round-pizza menu - here in both the Palermitan and the white versions, at 8 and 9 euro. Vincenzo Pagano records the dough precisely: direct dough, tipo 00 flour, 65 per cent hydration, worked in the Neapolitan manner, with 20 per cent Sicilian durum added - a Sicilian habit he notes younger pizzaioli have been dropping. Ron Garofalo was hauling flour from Naples when he started in the early 1980s, and he sat on the technical jury of the 2018 Sanlorenzo Mercato sfincione contest, which is the trade in Palermo treating him as an authority on it.

What to order

Sfincione palermitano (8 EUR); Sfincione bianco with ricotta, onion, anchovy, cacio and mollica (9 EUR); the Napoli

What we looked at

Impasto diretto, farina 00, 65% hydration, plus 20% Sicilian durum,Neapolitan method held to for more than forty years without changing it,Sicilian ingredients throughout - oil and fiordilatte from the Ragusa area - with only the tomato from Campania,both sfincione palermitano and sfincione bianco sold as round pizzas from the pizza menu,Ron Garofalo on the technical jury of the 2018 Sanlorenzo Mercato sfincione challenge, alongside the gastronomic historian Gaetano Basile