To know the history of Pasticceria Cappello you need to take a few steps back over the years.
The founder, Bartolomeo, was born in 1887 in Boccadifalco, a hamlet of Palermo, where he had started a small dairy farming business for the production of milk.
Due to a dispute that arose over the sale of a sheep, the price of which he had stubbornly insisted on, he, as a young man, was nicknamed "Bartolo tre lire".
Shortly after the start of the Second World War, together with his wife Provvidenza and his son Giovanni, he moved to Palermo, opening a dairy in 1944 given the post-war primary needs.
Until 1960 the dairy continued its activity together with that of a small bar for serving coffee and cappuccinos, and in the summer, of artisanal ice cream production under the direction of grandmother Assunta assisted by her eldest son Bartolomeo junior and little Salvatore.
But it was Salvatore's uncle, Giuseppe Ferruggia, who advised his nephew to start a small pastry business by teaching him how to prepare the well-known "Sicilian cannoli", "buccellato", and "genovese".
Salvatore thus falls in love with his profession and becomes an expert Master Chocolatier, inventing new sweets and creating them as if they were works of art.
Invited several times on TV, he is known throughout Italy, and Pasticceria Cappello is included among the "historic" Italian pastry shops of Panorama, in the "Italy of desserts" guide of the Italian Touring Club of Eurochocolate and the National Confederation of Crafts and, moreover, it has been in the Gambero Rosso "Bar d'Italia" and "Pasticcerie d'Italia" guides since 2003, as well as being part of the Accademia Maestri Pasticceri d'Italia since 1997.
Giovanni junior, Salvatore's son, also becomes a "little master pastry chef", takes part in international competitions and tries to reach his father by looking with a smile at the photo of his great-grandfather "zìu Bartolo tre lire".
Opening hours:
Monday to Sunday: 07:00 - 21:30
Wednesday: closed