26/08/2026
Climb to the old Saracen Tower, raised in the sixteenth century to watch the coast, and find inside it a room given over to something quieter. Nagori is Fulvio Pierangelini's meeting of Sicily and Japan, two islands set far apart yet bound by the same closeness to the sea, the same reverence for fish and for what the water gives.
The idea is not fusion in the usual sense. Rather than lay exotic ingredients over one another, the kitchen looks at Sicilian produce through Japanese eyes, the precision of sushi-making brought to the catch pulled from the Mediterranean that morning. Raw and cooked sit side by side, dishes lifted by greens from the resort's own vegetable garden, everything held to the season and to the place it comes from.
The setting follows the same restraint. The design keeps to Japanese principles of minimalism, spare and calm within the ancient stone, with seating indoors and out. Come at the end of the day, when the piazza around the tower settles and the light goes long over the water, and take a table as the sun drops. It is a small room and an unhurried one, precise where it needs to be and generous where it counts.
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