Location from Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
The di Carlo family trattoria — famous across Sicily for its food, and secretly the social heart of Palermo's witch community.
Sea & Vine is the kind of restaurant that makes you forget the outside world exists — the smells alone are intoxicating: garlic sizzling in olive oil, fresh bread pulling from the oven, herbs being crushed in a mortar. Nonna Maria runs the kitchen with absolute authority, and Emilia and Vittoria work the dining room with the practiced efficiency of women who've been doing this since childhood. But the trattoria is also a gathering place for the witches of Palermo — conversations held over wine carry double meanings, and certain dishes on the menu have properties that aren't listed. The kitchen itself is part apothecary, with herbs and ingredients arranged in an order that is culinary on one level and magical on another. It is the one place in Palermo where the di Carlo twins can be fully themselves — witches and restaurateurs, daughters and soldiers, human and something more.
A warm, bustling trattoria with stone walls, heavy wooden tables, and a kitchen that never stops producing food. Dried herbs hang from the ceiling beams. The windows are thrown open to let in the evening breeze, and candlelight flickers across surfaces worn smooth by generations of di Carlo hands. The bar is stocked with Sicilian wines and limoncello. Outside, a handful of tables spill onto the cobblestones.
Also known as: the trattoria, di Carlo restaurant