David K.
Yelp
FUD Bottega Sicula is a modern, hip, trendy restaurant with a contemporary menu of burgers, pizzas, sandwiches, and more! One distinctive feature of this quirky restaurant was that all the menu items were spelled exactly like they sounded. For example, we ordered the "Ors Burgher," a monstrous sandwich featuring a horse meat patty (a delicacy of Catania!), onions, lettuce, pepper jack cheese, and local wild greens fried with garlic and olive oil, all on a homemade seeded ciabatta-like bread. This was one of the few times I've ever eaten horse, and the lean meat went perfectly with the earthy greens and the pepper jack cheese, which had been melted and crisped up along the edges. We also had the Shek Burgher, made of a donkey meat patty (my first time eating this!), along with tomato, mixed salad, smoked buffalo mozzarella, mushrooms, Giarratana onions, and BBQ sauce. The flavors of the Shek Burger were over the top--the buffalo mozzarella added a deep unctuousness, the BBQ sauce had a sweet and sour flavor, and the tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms exploded with umami! What an incredible feast, and we had barely even scratched the surface of this innovative, creative menu!