The best restaurants Pouilles-Calabre-Basilicate

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

Restaurant opened in 2016 offering a warm atmosphere in its vaulted room or under the veranda with a view of the surrounding countryside. It offers successful dishes with accents of Calabria, with land and sea dishes that celebrate local products such as extra virgin olive oil from Gerace, liquorice and bergamot. Otherwise opt for pizza, baked in a wood-fired oven, with pretty ingredients. The Antico Borgo also has a few rooms with private bathroom and breakfast served in the garden.

An address in the historic centre well known for its good traditional cuisine, with a special emphasis on seafood. The swordfish dishes are particularly tasty, and the seafood, raw or cooked, is very fresh. Warm and romantic atmosphere for refined dishes and an attractive wine list. The room is not very large and even the terrace fills up very quickly, so remember to book your table with a view, especially in high season. Very nice view of the sea from the terrace.

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.

A festival of the senses, a culinary and human discovery: this is what Gigi, the young chef of Scinuà (pronounced "Chinese") offers you. At the entrance, a sign: "The greatest success in the kitchen is to fill your stomach with imagination": the tone is set! You could well enjoy the best meal of your trip here. Red carrots, ancient vegetables and other surprises are cooked with art and know-how. Vegetarian dishes, meats, desserts: everything is a delight. And for an extraordinary price-quality ratio. To discover absolutely!

Just behind the port of Monopoli, a carriage entrance opens onto an inner courtyard and a hall with a successful industrial decoration, chic but not stuffy. This address has recently become the ambassador of Puglia's greediness. Fine, mischievous and precise cuisine in a marine register. Numerous proposals of raw seafood products, to be combined as desired, pasta dishes between peasant traditions and noble ingredients, some meats. In short, we fell in love with this special place, very gourmet, and which offers reasonable prices as a bonus.

Ideally situated on the heights of the historic heart of beautiful Tropea, a stone's throw from the superb duomo, and with a panorama to savour: the port and the mountains in the background. The service and cuisine are impeccable, with excellent value for money for a host of Mediterranean dishes. Good fried anchovies and seafood, to be accompanied by a fresh white wine. Grilled fish with cuttlefish ink pasta, tuna with Tropea red onions and pizzas, you will be delighted. An idyllic setting with a shady terrace.

In a small alleyway hides this picturesque restaurant with its pretty, quiet terrace overlooking the waves. The interior looks like a cave with a thousand marine objects and old photos. The specialities of the house are fish and seafood recipes, with good assortments of antipasti, plates of grilled fish of the day, and the unmistakable swordfish which is caught in the waters of Scilla and served grilled, in carpaccio or with a dish of fresh pasta. Good seafood cuisine in an idyllic setting.

An unusual setting for a meal at the water's edge, a trabucco where fishingnets are cut out against the sea in the background. The Ottaviano family, owners of the trabucco for five generations, concocts traditional or more innovative recipes with the fish caught in the fishing nets and the vegetables from the Peschici vegetable garden. Very pleasant also for the aperitivo, with a glass of Apulian wine accompanied by some seafood. Live jazz sessions in summer. This small refuge, once a secret place, is now known by many tourists.

We fell in love with this organic restaurant! Nestled in a beautifully restored traditional trulli house, you can sit under the vaults or on the veranda facing the vegetable garden where the owners pick the vegetables in front of you. Short circuit guaranteed! The welcome is warm and humble, and the decoration, with its menus and quotes written directly on the walls, contributes to this enveloping atmosphere. One feels good at Terra Madre and the cuisine, multi-vitamin and delicately cooked, is a parade of flavours.

An address not to be missed if you are passing through Savelletri. Fish and seafood are served raw. They are of course very fresh because you are here in a fishmonger's shop. "No salt or olive oil": this is the advice of the owner, Vito, to get the best possible taste of the sea. The large carpaccio allows you to taste about six different fish and seafood, depending on the day's catch. Many tartars and the possibility of choosing oysters, shrimps, etc., individually. To be accompanied by a good glass of local white wine.

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.

A typical café-restaurant in the lower part of the village, where the villagers meet. The small room with exposed stone walls, decorated with old working tools from the peasant world, announces a meal in the Lucanian rural tradition. In front of a hunting trophy that is accompanied by a picture of the pope, one can enjoy an authentic and generous cuisine, where quality products are not bothered by the superfluous. Special mention for the lamb, melting and deliciously accompanied by vegetables in olive oil

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.

Chef Gigi Sanrocco is uncompromising: all products must be fresh and purchased the same day before they reach your plate! Proud to have had Mel Gibson at his table, he dedicated a recipe to him: fettucine alla Campagnola, with broad beans, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. Other specialties of this cuisine inspired by family tradition: braciole al ragù con polpette (chops and meatballs),agnello al cutturiello (lamb), or cardoncelli della passione (a pie made from a plant that grows in the Murge).

As the name suggests, theosteria is located near the Santa Maria Maggiore cathedral, in the historic centre. Its cuisine is unpretentious but quite good. The menu offers many regional fish and seafood specialties, with orecchiette with cime di rapa e vongole (shellfish), soups and fried sea food, pasta with shellfish bisque, all fresh and cooked with simplicity. The products of the land are also represented, with some meat dishes and platters of mozzarella and cured meats.

One of Bari's emblematic addresses, where you can enjoy local cuisine in a chic atmosphere, with a small covered terrace and a rather "proper" clientele. Particular attention is paid to the choice of local and seasonal raw materials and to the freshness of the fish and seafood from the Adriatic Sea, which are grilled or served as raw and cooked antipasti. Lovers will rush to the large sea urchin platters. Homemade pasta and a fine selection of wines. Close to the Petruzzelli theatre.

The regulars' meeting place! Here you can find ultra-fresh seafood and Bari specialities, such as the simple and delicious riso potato e cozze (a traditional dish which, as its name suggests, consists of rice, potatoes and mussels, all baked in the oven), the polpo arrosto in panino (grilled octopus sandwich), or the crispy fried fish. You pay first at the cash register where you receive a number, then you pick up your order when it's ready! Typical and popular, all with a view of the small harbour, almost with your feet in the water.

A narrow room, stone and ceiling ceiling, located next to the old town. Typical dishes of the region without a map. Please know that the antipasti and dessert are imposed without any choice. Side menu, three entries and two dishes (meat or fish). On the way out, a night walk to enjoy along the walls.