Thank you for your interest in my 2-Hour Ballarò Market Tour in Palermo, Sicily!
This 2-hour chef-led outdoor market experience with LINDA SARRIS introduces food lovers to Palermo's 1,000-year-old Ballarò market. Weave your way through a labyrinth of hollering vendors, vibrant colors, heaps of seasonal produce, and the aroma of fried goodies. This program includes an intro to la cucina siciliana, morning coffee, traditional Sicilian tastings, Palermitan street food, time to shop from trusted purveyors, a farewell granita/spritz/beer at the end, and my tried-and-true recommendations for lunch or dinner on your own.
- The price is $160 for the first person and $70 each for the additional guests.
- Make sure to tick 1 add-on box for any additional guests (not including yourself).
- A 50% non-refundable deposit is required to hold the date and confirm your booking.
- The balance will be due on the day of the tour in cash Euros.
THE CHEEKY CHEF //
Linda Sarris is a food, wine, and travel consultant and private chef based in Palermo, Sicily. She left an office job in book publishing for a year of training at the French Culinary Institute that changed her world completely. After a scholarship from the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs organization sent her to a vineyard in Sicily, she fell in love with the island, its history, the warm people, the markets, and the incomparable weather. After nearly a decade of private chef-ing splitting time between New York and Sicily, she sold everything and moved full-time to Palermo. From her sun-lit kitchen studio above the 1,000-year-old Ballarò food market, Linda works as a freelance author and culinary communications consultant while still traveling regularly as a private chef, with clients in the fashion and music industries. She published two travel guidebooks with MOON Guides, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group: MOON Southern Italy and MOON Sicily. Under her brand, The Cheeky Chef, she is self-publishing a Sicilian food and wine ‘zine and curating a series of Mediterranean culinary lifestyle retreats and travel experiences.