Other restaurants in Puglia
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Trattoria di Nonna Tetti
A warmly inviting restaurant that is popular with all ages and budgets and serves a wide choice of traditional dishes. Try the most emblematic Pugliese dish here – braised wild chicory with a puree of boiled dried fava beans, along with very more-ish contorni (side dishes) like patate casarecce (home-made thinly sliced fries).
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Picton
This backstreet restaurant has an elegant dress-for-dinner feel. It is housed in an old palazzo with a cool barrel-vaulted interior and a refreshing internal garden, and the cuisine is traditional with a twist, including dishes such as saltimbocca (veal dish with sage and prosciutto meaning ‘leap in the mouth’).
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Vini e Cucina
Run by the same family for more than a century, this boisterous osteria (wine bar serving some food) chalks up its daily specials of well-prepared and filling Pugliese dishes. Grab a seat in the brick-flanked tunnel of a dining room and wait (and wait) to be served by the one impressively indefatigable waiter.
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Trattoria Amatulli
Excellent trattoria with a cheerily cluttered interior papered with photos of smiley diners, plus superb down-to-earth dishes like orecchietta al ragù con carne (‘little ears’ pasta in a meat-and-tomato based sauce). Wash it down with the surprisingly drinkable house wine costing the lordly sum of €4 a litre.
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Osteria Piazzetta Cattedrale
This tiny little hostelry serves up magical food. The menu includes plenty of vegetarian options, like frittelle di verdure miste profumate alla menta su salsa de yogurt (vegetable fritter with a yoghurt and mint sauce). The service is attentive, and the atmosphere deeply contented.
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Osteria del Tempo Perso
A sophisticated rustic restaurant in a former bakery, this laid-back place serves great Pugliese food, specialising in roasted meats. To get here, face the cathedral’s south wall and turn right through two archways into Largo Giuseppe Spennati, then follow the signs to the restaurant.
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Il Giardino Segreto
Il Giardino Segreto - ‘The Secret Garden’ is just that, with a secluded courtyard out back and tables set around a lemon tree centrepiece. Dishes should suit the fussiest of diners with salads, bruschetta, pasta, meat and fish dishes and a reasonable €15 daily menu.
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Shodai
Bari’s first Japanese restaurant is deservedly popular. Enjoy Asian classics like vegetable tempura, salmon sashimi and tuna sushi in a suitably Zen-inspired interior, with tubular steel furniture complemented by a minimalistic black-and-red colour scheme.
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Porta Nova
This restaurant has a wonderful location on the old city wall. Revel in the rolling views from the terrace or relax in the elegant interior while you feast on top-notch local cuisine, with fish and seafood the speciality. Try the prawns from Gallipoli.
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Marc’Aurelio
In a beautiful, historic building, this classy restaurant and oyster bar is the place for simple, exquisitely cooked seafood. Finish with the local speciality spumone (a hazelnut ice-cream confection). There’s a garden terrace.
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Maccheroni Pizzerie a Metro
Not the place for a candlelit dinner for two, but great if you love pizza and people – equally. The long and short of it is that the whole table’s order is made into one continuous pizza, served by the metre and, most importantly, delicious.
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Osteria degli Angeli
Tucked away on an arched alley, is this friendly restaurant, offering great cooking in a stone-vaulted interior. Try the troccoli dell’angeli (pasta with prawns) or parmigiana di melanzane (baked aubergine with mozzarella).
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Osteria Ferro e Fuoco
This new kid on the block serves reliably good dishes including fried ricotta antipasti and roasted veal chops. It has a charming position on the piazza with terrace seating overlooking time-worn traditional buildings adorned with washing.
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Il Cortiletto
A superb restaurant with a barrel-vault interior, central courtyard and a menu that includes traditional dishes like orecchiette with cimie di rape (bitter greens) and cozze pelose (Puglia’s indigenous clams).
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La Darsena
Renowned for its seafood, La Darsena is housed in a waterfront palazzo. Outside tables are shielded by thick greenery while inside photos of old Puglia cover the walls beneath a huge wrought-iron dragon chandelier.
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Due Gnelli
Step into this shiny black-and-white dining space to enjoy surprisingly traditional dishes, like orecchiette alle cime di rape (‘little ears’ pasta with turnip tops) and fritto misto (fried seafood).
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Ciacco
Ciacco is a traditional restaurant with white-clad tables and a cosy fireplace, serving up Puglian cuisine in a modern key. It’s tucked down a narrow pedestrian lane a couple of streets in from the Chiesa del Carmine.
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Enoteca Vesta
Housed in a cool, vaulted cave, you can savour a magnificent selection of Puglian wines here to accompany innovative dishes like fried stuffed anchovies with cheese and eggs and baked grey mullet with wild fennel.
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Gelateria Sottozero
Dawdle over a coffee or prosecco while checking out the chic-elite in town but don't leave without indulging in the best ice cream in Vieste. For a rich, fat, chocolate fix drown in the amarena.
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La Collinetta
Located 2.5km before Peschici on the coastal road from Vieste. This is a classy restaurant serving fresh fish, with a sunny terrace overlooking the pine trees, olive groves and azure coast.
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Il Ritrovo degli Amici
This excellent restaurant, with stone walls and vaulting, has a convivial atmosphere oiled by the region’s Spumante. Dishes are traditional with salamis and sausages as the specialities.
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Villaggio In
These charming arched apartments are located in original centro storico homes with steep stairs and small rooms. Antiques and whitewashed walls complete the traditional look.
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Ristorante Margutta
Hung with ivy, this friendly frescoed restaurant is justifiably popular. It specialises in fish dishes, including an excellent grigliata mista di pesce (mixed fish grill).
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Il Giardino
Established more than 40 years ago in a restored 15th-century palazzo, sophisticated Il Giardino serves refined seafood and meat dishes in a delightful garden setting.
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LaltroBaffo
A new kid on the block with a more fashionable look than some of the old timers. The excellent seafood is recommended; go for the daily fish option prepared with pasta.
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