The best restaurants Martina Franca

Behind the Palazzo Ducale, this trattoria is dedicated to good traditional cuisine, but mischievously revisited by chef Martino. In the dining room, it is Rosa who provides the service with enthusiasm. As an antipasto, you can't do without the capocollo of own production accompanied by burrata. Delicious pasta dishes and, in season, creamy and fragrant porcini mushroom risotto. Meat lovers will appreciate the lamb cooked at low temperature, mixed grills and suckling pig with wine and plums. A tasteful stopover!

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.

A beautiful garden where you will be served fine regional cuisine and pizzas. The establishment is not exceptional, may be a little rejuvenated, but remains a good step, especially if you are looking for gluten-free food.

Behind a discreet front, a small establishment with a refined decoration, just like its kitchen. Chef Angela draws her inspiration from local culinary traditions and local produce to create gourmet plates full of flavour. The menu is divided into a land and a sea menu, and one is invited to travel from one to the other to taste fish carpaccios with citrus fruits, orecchiette with capocollo and bean purée or risotto with saffron and black truffle, with a divine fragrance. Excellent Apulian wines.

Under the porticoes of Piazza Maria Immacolata, with its harmonious semi-oval shape, there is a small shop that sells the cheeses and capocollo of its production. You can sit at one of the few tables in the shade of the arcades for a quick lunch, and enjoy an assortment of their good products on plastic plates, accompanied by bread, a few olives and taralli. Or opt for a warm panino generously topped with capocollo and stracciatella : a treat! And at a very reasonable price.

A family-run restaurant born from the close collaboration between two brothers: one runs the butcher's shop almost opposite, the other offers local meats in his restaurant. On the menu, therefore, are sausage, lamb chops, capocollo, bombette, fegatini (liver-based), mixed grills, all accompanied by baked potatoes and a pitcher of table wine. Rustic and very local atmosphere, with the television on in the background. Perfect for satisfying a carnivorous craving at low prices.