The best grocery stores Pouilles-Calabre-Basilicate

Charming shop on the main square selling local products (olive oil from the neighbouring massage parlours, honey, pasta, sourdough bread, taralli, cakes, wines...). A nice initiative to make the small producers of the region known. And an ideal stopover to stock up on typical gifts. The company also organises "taste laboratories", which consist of tasting local products in the company of experts in the oenogastronomic sector (producers, cooks, etc.), to discover the scents, textures and flavours.

For over 30 years,Benvenuto has been working in its charming vaulted grocery store and selecting traditional specialties from the region. Here you will find taralli with classic or unusual flavours (chilli and cacioricotta, onions and raisins, anchovies and capers, chocolate and coconut...), pasta (plain orecchiette, with primitivo wine or squid ink, sagne 'ncannulate), various preserves (fave e cicorie, cime di rapa...). Enough to reproduce at home a meal in the Salento tradition! The company also exports abroad.

A temple of delicacies that has been open since 1987. It offers a selection of quality local products such as cheeses (caciocavallo podolico matured on hay or in caves, canestrato made from goat's milk), cold cuts (prosciutello, capocollo, salsiccia pezzente - a typical sausage included in the list of Slow Food Presidi), but also preserves, jams and honey, wine, amaro and the famous peperone crusco. It is possible to taste some of the products to help you make your choice.

Uacciardidd is a word from the local dialect meaning "farm chicken". This shop is, in fact, a butcher's and caterer's shop run by the Taccardi family and whose activity dates back to 1946. But there is also an appetizing selection of delicate delicatessen meats and regional cheeses. Finally, Uacciardidd is a tavola calda offering quality cuisine at an economical price. You pay by weight for your meat, grilled vegetables or pasta, choose a drink from the fridge and sit down to eat in an authentic family atmosphere.

A shop set up in old troglodytic dwellings and offering a wide selection of typical products from the region. Here you can buy the famous peperoni cruschi, those crunchy sweet peppers, delicious plain or with fresh goat cheese, but also grilled beans for aperitifs, orecchiette and other special pasta, taralli, wine, olive oil, cold cuts and canned vegetables.

Since 1913, Callipo has been the specialist in quality canned tuna. At that time, the company worked exclusively with Mediterranean bluefin tuna, caught off the coast of Pizzo. Callipo was even one of the patented suppliers to the Court at the time of Victor Emmanuel III. Nowadays, the tuna is fished mostly in the ocean with a sustainable approach, and its meat is always the object of the greatest care. The beautiful preserves are on sale in the store, as well as products from the Pizzo farm (citrus jams, liqueurs...).