The best Italian pizzerias and restaurants Apulia

A correct pizzeria if you want to dine on the Galilei lungomare with a glass of Primitivo.

In this restaurant, you can only treat yourself! The chef Daniele Caldarulo, and Emilio at the service, always with a smile on his face, will know how to pamper you to give the best of their cuisine. Excellent pizzas, like the whole menu. On the menu, tartars, risottos and pasta with a thousand flavours, fish with unimaginable recipes... The ricotta cake with its caramel cream is a delight, as is the dark chocolate cake with its white chocolate flowing, excellent value for money and very good wines.

Prepare yourself for a sweet journey of scents and flavours orchestrated by the great (and very modest) chef Pietro Zito, a true ambassador of Puglia's cuisine, of the raw materials offered by its generous land, of the know-how of its producers. Here is a place where you feel as if you were invited to a friend's house. You can see the cooks happily stirring through a bay window, the atmosphere is cosy, authentic. A traditional cuisine made with fresh seasonal produce, many of which comes from the nearby vegetable garden. A delight.

Authentic Salento cuisine and products from zero mileage: this is the guarantee of this osteria, open since 1999 and run by Salvatore Campilongo aka Totu, who always keeps an eye on the dining room and an eye on the kitchen. Expect to find a casareccia cuisine, "like at home", without fuss but always generous. The menu satisfies all tastes, from hearty antipasti to share, fresh fish and typical meat dishes like turcinieddrhi.

Close to the station, in a modern room with a careful and design decoration, the Peppo offers at any time of the day traditional dishes (cavatelli with wild boar and cardoncelli mushrooms) and more innovative suggestions (tuna in taralli crust), plates that are both generous and aesthetically pleasing. Young and dynamic team; behind the bay window you can see the staff busy in the kitchen. Good selection of wines of the day. In the morning, you can have breakfast there. A pleasant address with good value for money.

Situated at the entrance to the old town, in the pretty and romantic Piazza Mercantile, La Cecchina offers a fine cuisine and well-stocked plates. Choose between the interior setting, where the modern decoration harmonizes with the old stones and the vaulted ceiling, or the terrace overlooking the square and the first buildings of the old town. In both cases, an ideal place for a successful candlelight dinner. Typical Apulian recipes, fresh fish of the day, good pasta, and a beautiful wine list.

You really have to know the place or be caught by the tasty smells of the pizzas on the street to get to this small place, located next to the Santa Chiara church. An arty atmosphere, very colorful and warm, with a choice of six kinds of pizzas of all sizes to eat in or take away. Large rectangles sprinkled with cheese, mushrooms, salmon, arugula and other flavorful ingredients are displayed, offering a pleasure for the eyes that will be confirmed by that of the taste buds. Nice selection of local beers.

After a visit to the historical centre full of charm, this is the place to come to discover the reputation of Noci's cuisine. A menu of traditional dishes, both land and sea, will be presented to you. And you will immediately recognize a family cuisine that warms the heart and reassures waiting stomachs. On the menu, raw and cooked antipasti, seafood, orecchiette alle cime di rapa or with tomato and pecorino, local meats and fish. A restaurant very appreciated by the locals!

Since 1973, this popular local address has been preparing pizzas baked in a wood-fired oven with beautiful seasonal ingredients. The frame? The one of a simple but cheerful pizzeria.

For more than 50 years, the Rosetta Pizzeria (named after the wife of the first owner) has been a success story. The reason? A real Neapolitan pizza baked over a wood fire, elastic and delectable, topped with carefully selected ingredients and drizzled with olive oil rigorously salted. Traditional or more refined toppings, such as the Rosetta pizza with mushrooms, radicchio, bresaola and grana padano, or the Patata pizza with potatoes, sausage, rosemary and gorgonzola. All without breaking the bank.

Along the Via Mercadante, which surrounds the historic centre, a small square opens up below, closed off by three white houses with pointed gables that seem to come out of a fairy tale: this is where this typical address is nestled. At the arrival of fine weather, the terrace invades the square and the stairs, in a very good-natured atmosphere. Excellent local specialities combining the search for flavours and generosity. To try: the suckling pig in crust cooked with negroamaro wine and sweet and sour onions, and the homemade laurel digestif.

One of the few good addresses in the old town. This family trattoria revives the traditional recipes of Puglia, specialities of fresh or seasonal fish, and concocts very good pizzas with fresh products. Opt for the copious pizza menu, with antipasto and dessert, to taste several specialities of the house. Beautiful vaulted room and pleasant terrace in good weather. On your way out, don't miss a short digestive and night walk on the port, located just in front of the restaurant.

Just a stone's throw from the Duomo, in the intimate and warm setting of a typical "viestese" vaulted room dating back to the 15th century, with its exposed stones and diffused light, the restaurant offers traditional cuisine of fresh fish, fresh pasta, lamb and goat meat from the region, all with an exemplary freshness. Beautifully set plates and associations of sought-after flavours. A good address popular with locals and tourists alike. There are also a few tables in the tiny stairway.

Situated in the heart of the small streets of Monte Sant'Angelo, this is a rustic and elegant, but very busy restaurant that can accommodate large tables of pilgrims, families and tourist groups. The establishment offers a simple and generous cuisine, without artifice, with antipasti to share, grilled or baked meats and fish, dishes of pasta and seafood and good grilled vegetables. In the evening, the restaurant also offers good pizzas. Friendly welcome and very good value for money.

In the center of the ancient heart, next to the Convitto Nazionale convent, this trattoria-pizzeria offers the country's specialties: pasta and land flavors like sea. You should taste the sausage-pepper pizza or the interesting menus that include several dishes, first, secondo with 1/4 of water and wine.

The address will delight carnivores and those who are tired of fish: here, chianina meat, lamb and rustic sausages are grilled over a wood fire in the large fireplace of the main room. The appetizers and pasta dishes are rooted in the Apulian peasant tradition, and there are cheese and cold cuts platters, orecchiette with rapa cakes and gnocchi with sausage and cardoncelli mushrooms on the menu. A simple and tasty cuisine. Pleasant terrace in the shade of the alley in good weather.

A beautiful culinary moment in perspective! We love this address on the other side of the public gardens, combining a touch of aristocratic hospitality with the exaltation of the flavours of Salento. The cuisine is both authentic and refined, seasonal dishes and recipes of the peasant tradition are presented in carefully prepared plates, and modest fave e cicorie (chicory bean purée), enhanced by a drizzle of fragrant olive oil, are transformed into a gastronomic dish! Excellent wines and very good value for money.

A restaurant that also makes pizzeria, with a very nice terrace located on Vittorio Emmanuele Square in the historic center of Polignano. From the antipasti, to the desserts, to the primo and the secondo piato, it is a whole range of pubic cuisine that is offered at Bella 'Mbriana. Pizzas, with ultra fine paste, are also to be discovered at all costs.

With what masterful hand Rosalba de Carlo runs his restaurant in the historic centre! She is proud of the many (excellent, of course) reviews she has received for her traditional Salento cuisine, which she has managed to raise to the rank of gastronomy thanks to her talent. The décor is a bit rustic with its tables with red checkered doilies. To taste: the "fritti ti l'uertu", fried vegetables from the vegetable garden, or the "ricciareddhe", large pasta with tomatoes slightly spicy. Service with the small care. Reservation recommended.