Search for:
Unique ITALIAN PIZZA & 130 Year Old BAKERY in Trapani, Sicily 🇮🇹
Recipes

Unique ITALIAN PIZZA & 130 Year Old BAKERY in Trapani, Sicily 🇮🇹

By



In this Sicily food vlog, I explore two legendary food spots in Trapani — the city’s oldest bakery and one of its most authentic traditional pizzerias.

*Antico Forno Pollina dal 1893* – Oldest Trapani Bakery
This is a historic family bakery with more than 130 years of tradition, baking is still done the old-fashioned way. This famous bakery is known for its delicious Cabuccio bread rolls, which they turn into amazing sandwiches, but they also bake a wide variety of traditional Sicilian breads, pastries, and incredible baker’s pizza. Watching the bakers work with a traditional wood-fired oven is like stepping back in time and seeing authentic Sicilian baking as it has been done for generations.

*Pizzeria Stefy* – Authentic Trapani Pizza
Next, we visit Pizzeria Stefy, one of the oldest pizzerias in Trapani, where they make authentic restaurant-style Trapani pizza which is different than any other Italian pizza. We will witness the dough making process, from beginning to the end, and once this dough is rested, we are going back to the restaurant, to experience the busy and hectic Saturday evening when the kitchen is working at full speed and all these incredible Sicilian pizzas are made under real pressure — and of course we will enjoy some of the best pizza in Trapani.

📱FOLLOW:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmarktravel/
#trapani #pizza #bakery #sicily #italy

*If you want to support this channel:*
☕Buy me a coffee, every little bit helps:
https://buymeacoffee.com/alexmarktravel
📌Or join as a member here:
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMarkTravel/join

Locations visited in this video:
1. // *_Antico forno Pollina dal 1893_* // Address: Corso Italia, 108, 91100 Trapani TP, Italy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3CPjEunS9nrTYEpPA
2. // *_Pizzeria Stefy_* // Address: Via Duca D’Aosta, 9/11, 91100 Trapani TP, Italy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/NDi9QG9yYcrkYGKp7

23 Comments

  2. @Wolfgang-k1q

    It is fascinating to watch the two bakers working together at the oven—like a perfectly functioning clockwork! Great video Alex!

  3. @otsego44

    For someone who has traveled Italy from the top to bottom and all points in between, this has to be the best looking and tasting pizza I’ve ever seen, how did I miss this. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Great video as usual Alex. Ciao

  4. @appolop8273

    Delicious looking pizza better than Neapolitan pizza in my opinion. Another mouth watering video by Alex. Bravo!

  9. @torontovoice1

    It was very interesting in the beginning looking at a very antiquated system of baking. The preparation of the oven involves them putting in a lot of wood and other combustibles into the oven and then turning on a fan igniting the material causing flames. Once the wood started to burn, it turned into coals which does not radiate any smoke. Then using a metal device, he pushed all of the coals towards the back and to one side so he could load the oven with all of the fresh dough turning it into soft fluffy mouth watering bread. Watching him tear into one of the bread rolls, it seems quite apparent how the fluffiness and Old fashioned taste seems to exude.

    It's obviously a very repetitive function. They sit there all day and prepare the dough let it rise shape it and pop them in the oven, take them out, and put them into the retail store so that the whole community can enjoy the fruits of their labor.

    That sandwich that you were eating looks delicious and I can see the additional flavor that was instilled into the sandwich putting it on the panini grill.

    Looking at you eating that pizza sauce, I could see what is likely cornmeal looks like coarse flour which was used on the bottom of the dough to stop it from sticking onto the oven.

    The preparation of the dough was also quite interesting. It's very important when you make the dough to use extremely cold water which probably activates the yeast a little bit better. You could see how pliable the dough was when he pulled it out of the stand mixer.

    No I can see he's making all these dough balls weighing each chunk carefully and lining the pan with corn flour so that it doesn't stick. I also noticed that he left a lot of space in between the dough balls so that the dough can rise and have room to rise and there will be perforations between each of the portions of though so that he'll be able to extract all of the dough using a Spader.

    I was very impressed the way they were making the round pizzas on an assembly line and then putting them on the boards. Then they put them all in the oven together and take them all out together. This of course saves a lot of time and stops the pizzas from burning because they all go in and out at the same time. And using a fin cross dough, the pizza Cooks quite quickly. I wonder if this concept was the precursor for the automated chain ovens which are used today?

    I can see that woman was very busy using that guillotine slicer preparing the pizzas for consumption and I was very impressed with the basil leaf that they put on each of the pizzas. Kind of like an extra bonus! That's the one thing produced the people behind this pizzeria this is the first owner the founder and his kids brother and sister who are managing this restaurant.

    Just looking at the menu the prices look quite reasonable!

    Alex, watching you savor those two pizzas the regular tomato based one and the one with white sauce was absolutely breathtaking. My pallet was already salivating wondering how much a flight to Sicily actually cost?

    This was really a wonderful biography of a historical family continuing in their historical tradition of making pizzas the way it used to be.

    This video not only serves as a detailed description of their Pizza, but also how many of the old fashioned recipes never die.

    Thank you for making such a wonderful and culturally rich culinary biography.

  12. @cherylwaite3255

    Thank you for Sharing this, i dream some day to go to Sicily, my Grandparents were born there, but moved to Canada
    i absolutely loved watching the pizza, and bread being made, my oldest Son just made buns today, i made bread yesterday

  13. @MrWiseman91

    I can't wait to visit Italy again and try a true pizza. Proper pizzerias here in this video, always a joy to watch them prepare the pizza and put it in the oven. ❤ Thank you for the video! 🎉

  16. @AussieAngieS

    That bakery was so awesome, the amount of work that goes into the daily preparation is amazing. Bread and pizza is exquisite in Italy, I loved listening and understanding what was said as I’m Italian. Thank you as always

  21. @josefvogeltanz2858

    I'm not sure I'd be fast enough to get anything home. Those imaginary scents are tickling my fancy.

    There is a lot of talk about how AI will replace human work. Here, it has no chance of replacing human work and skill.

Write A Comment