Best Mediterranean Restaurants in Puglia, Apulia

A'Roma L'Osteria

$$$ Via Cesare Battisti, 3, 73100, Lecce

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining

All our plates are prepared with the highest quality natural materials from our beloved land. Our preparations respect the seasonality of the products and some dishes are prepared and served only on certain days of the week to always guarantee the freshness of the raw material. Coda alla Vaccinara, Pajata, Tripe, and various other courses are prepared with slow cooking methods, as per tradition, exclusively in clay pots and pans. Bringing True Roman Cuisine to Lecce for us means making known the Heart, the flavors, the colors, the heart, and the Aroma of our City.

Tabisca "il Vico Dei Tagliati"

$$$$ Vico Dietro Lo Spedale Dei Pellegrini 29 In Un Vicolo Presso Piazzetta Santa Chiara, 73100, Lecce

Italian European Mediterranean Casual Dining

Tabisca was born from an idea that slowly became a vision: creating a magic place where eating and drinking represent a remarkable experience, in the heart of a beautiful city. A continuous and selective search of our Ian, a man of great culinary experience, with a unique talent and a sincere and reliable Sicilian soul. A small square that looks like a small living room can be reached via an alley from Piazza Santa Chiara. A hidden and welcoming refuge, sheltered from the enthusiasm of a city that is always on, but close to its beating heart. A natural terrace set in the heart of the Lecce Baroque.

I Latini

$$$ Via Giuseppe Palmieri, 46, 73100, Lecce

Italian European Mediterranean Elegant & Chic

The I Latini restaurant has always been located in one of the most famous and suggestive streets of the historic center of Lecce. Since we opened the doors of what was then a brewery in 1999, the time has worked with us to create a place that would offer people the familiarity, aromas, and tastes that they feel in their homes. Ours is a restaurant that focuses on the quality of raw materials and the enhancement of traditional cuisine, Salento, and Italian in general. Bring revisited features, which become original paintings on our table. We select the best natural materials to always guarantee quality dishes. Appetizers, first and second courses, side plates, and aperitifs: the menu of I Latini is designed for an enveloping adventure appropriate for all tastes.

Il Rifugio Della Buona Stella

$$ Via Leonardo Prato, 28/30, 73100, Lecce

Italian Mediterranean Family Style

The grandmothers of Salento, those of the past, were women capable of working miracles in front of the stove with the sole power of love and the choice of the most genuine raw materials. Setting up tables like a king, starting with a few spartan ingredients, became a mission that was always possible in their sturdy hands. This is how in 2009 the trattoria "Il Rifugio Della Buona Stella" was born, of the emotional bond for the family and for the good food that grandmother Stella had skillfully transformed into a family-run restaurant. Even more since a few years ago chef Maurizio, with his new management, gave the restaurant a second life, revisiting the best traditional plates with originality and skill.

Ristorante L'Angolo Blu

$$$$ Via C. Muzio, 45, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Premium Casual

L'Angolo Blu, an elegant restaurant with seafood cuisine, a few steps from one of the major attractions of Gallipoli, the Cathedral of Sant'Agata, is the perfect location to enjoy fish specialities in the historic centre, located among the alleys of the city old. Cosy location, ideal for romantic dinners for couples (but not only), with furnishings in a refined style and, obviously, a predominance of the colour blue, from the tablecloths to the furnishing accessories. Here you can taste famous seafood dishes cooked by modern chefs, able to amaze with innovative recipes but always with an attentive and respectful eye on the best and most traditional specialities of the local cuisine for an enhancement of Apulian gastronomy revisited in an excellent current key, and with the certainty of top-level raw materials, most of the time at km 0. The protagonist of each dish is obviously the fish, from the local purple shrimp to the catch of the day, from the delicious sea urchins to the carpaccio guaranteed from all points of view, with particular regard to the freshness of the product.

Da Clara

$$$ Via Antonietta De Pace, 15, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

A restaurant with deep Salento roots, rooted in years, decades and more than a century of history, meets contemporary culture, merging tradition with modernity. The Da Clara restaurant is an institution in Gallipoli, which for years now has been offering culinary joys to the palates of hundreds of diners. A traditional cuisine which revisits the Apulian gastronomic panorama, putting it at the centre of the scene and, above all, elevating it. From homemade orecchiette to stew, stew, fish main courses, with the daily catch, to soft meats in butter from selected Salento farms. All autochthonous and pure, like the healthy air of Puglia.

Ristorante La Giudecca

$$$$ Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, Lungomare Galileo Galilei, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

We find the La Giudecca restaurant in the heart of Gallipoli, a few steps from the sea. A place where fish is sacred. The daily catch, guaranteed by many trusted suppliers, guarantees the incredible freshness of the raw material, creating a mix of rarely disappointing flavours and expectations. Appetizers based on raw seafood, first courses with grouper sauce, monkfish, cuttlefish, squid, lobster and much more. The kingdom of the sea reigns supreme in La Giudecca.

La Locanda Degli Angioini

$$$ Riviera Armando Diaz, 119, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining

A ridosso del mare, sullo splendido sfondo della città di Gallipoli, troviamo La Locanda degli Angioini. Un ristorante con vista mozzafiato sul mare, che da l'impressione di mangiarci sopra, dando ai turisti e ai clienti l'impressione di cenare tra le acque del mar Ionio. Un ristorante che propone cucina pugliese tradizionale, contando nel menu numerose pietanze a base di pesce, grazie al continuo scarico di materie prime. Antipasti a base di mare, primi e secondi di mare, ma non solo, c'è scelta anche per chi non gusta una cucina marinara, proponendo anche i classici, facendo tutti contenti.

Trattoria La Puritate

$$$$ Via Sant'Elia, 18, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining

In one of the oldest villages of the ancient city, near the Puritate church, one of the most loved restaurants in Gallipoli has always been a place devoted to fish. The very fresh raw material is the master, prepared with a light and expert hand, capable of enhancing the flavours of the sea. The menu, by voice, changes according to the offer of the day. As soon as you take a seat on the elegant glazed veranda, the large roundup of raw and cooked appetizers of proven freshness will begin: from the extraordinary raw prawns to stuffed mussels, cooked and marinated bonito, from raw tuna (exceptional for its flavour) to sliced octopus to rice with almonds and radishes (less exciting). We continue with tagliolini with lemon, rocket and prawns, a straightforward but delicate dish, as well as pasta with bonito and cherry tomatoes. Among the second courses, you will find prawns in salt and wind: a preparation that is once again simple but capable of enhancing the superb raw material.

Osteria Sant’Angelo

$$$$ Via De Pace Antonio, 3, 73041, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining

A magical, intimate, romantic place that instils peace and serenity. At the Osteria Sant'Angelo, you will feel at home. In addition to a very welcoming location with a romantic air, perfect for a dinner for two, the tavern offers a menu full of appetizers; there is no shortage of seafood first and second courses. The proposed cuisine is traditional, but the unmistakable touch of the chef makes everything more suggestive, giving creativity, giving art to his dishes and giving a great sense of satisfaction to his guests, who are always satisfied and enraptured. The fresh and daily catch guarantees an absolute, first-rate quality of the products.

Pentola Degli Gnomi

$$$ Via Gian Giacomo Russo, 18, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style

La Pentola degli Gnomi is a tavern in Gallipoli, a rustic place with a popular menu, where you can eat while feeling at home. The staff wants to immerse their customers in the various flavours of Salento, born from the meat and fish dishes meeting. Starting from this definition, it was decided to create and define a new image that could explain the true concept of Osteria. All this through the recipes of the chefs, the warm and welcoming environment and the people who animate it and live it every day. A popular and dynamic menu, a gastronomic journey to rediscover the authenticity of the flavours of the past, embellished with a contemporary touch and faithful to reality like the Apulian one. What remains constant in the proposal is the respect for the seasonality of the raw materials and the link with the territory.

YOU - Cibo E Piacere

$$$$ Via Petrelli, 15, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

At You - Food and Pleasure, you will find what best represents the concept of modernity and evolution. A few steps from the historic centre of Gallipoli, You evolve, grow, study and move forward with the times, building a concept that enhances its qualities and tends to distinguish it from the others. It is a menu that mainly sees fish at the centre of everything but also broadens its horizons to other elements, especially land. Seafood appetizers and more lead the way to a truly varied menu, which leaves no room for the undecided. The hand of the chef is evident; a touch is enough to revolutionize a flavour or a spice.

Il Pettolino

$$$ Riviera Nazario Sauro, 57, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Set in the evocative setting of the city of Gallipoli, within the elegant walls of Palazzo Grumesi, Il Pettolino Gallipoli awaits you to offer you an experience of great cuisine and tradition. The emerging star of the Italian gastronomic scene, Executive Chef Vito Gaballo specializes in the haute cuisine of Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi. Since 2018 at the helm of the Il Pettolino Gallipoli restaurant, he invents and perfects unique multisensory experiences every day. Modern and tied to traditions. Innovative cuisine is always attentive to the flavours of the Salento area. Il Pettolino Gallipoli stands out for its quality traditional dishes, gourmet cuisine and the freshness of the raw materials. Quality always comes first.

Scafùd Mare

$ Via C. Muzio, 23, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining

An explosion of taste is enclosed in refined sandwiches, tartare, fries and much more. A fish bar to be discovered in the heart of Gallipoli. A few steps from the sea, at Scafùd, you will find what the ocean gives to this glorious land, savouring the freshness of the Mediterranean and the unmistakable taste of its fruits. Crudo, tartare and much more to fully enjoy the joy of food.

Ristorante Il Bastione - Terrazza Sul Mare

$$$$ Riviera Nazario Sauro, 28, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Bulwark on the Ionian Sea, the Il Bastione restaurant stands sentinel over infinity. A timeless place, it opens up to the visitor as a glimmer of the millennial history of the city of Gallipoli, thanks to a skilful recovery of medieval architecture. The golden stone, the colour of the sun, opens up to large and welcoming rooms, embraced by a large window, a natural fresco in which there is no dividing line between sky and sea. On the table are the highest gastronomic delicacies, dominated by the flavours of the sea and the culinary tradition of a land rich in history and culture.

Yellow Scapece

$$$ Riviera Armando Diaz, 131, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining

The name of the restaurant is inspired by the yellow of the lampante oil and the scapes, two typically Gallipoli peculiarities that the co-owner, Roberto Podo, wanted to enhance with his Yellow Scapece. The restaurant is located on the first floor of a building facing the sea, above the historic Martinucci ice cream parlour and pastry shop, and from its large windows, you can admire both the sea and the Angevin castle. The menu plays a lot with flavour combinations and seasonality. Among the appetizers, therefore, we can find the cod in squid ink tempura served with a rocket cream, the Ionian squid fried in semolina flour and accompanied by Acquaviva red onion jam or the anchovy millefeuille with chicory and buffalo mozzarella crispy in the oven.

Al Pescatore

$$$$ Riviera Cristoforo Colombo, 39, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Just a stone's throw from the new area, you can discover the authenticity of the Al Pescatore restaurant with seafood specialities based on the best fresh fish. The hosts are Luciano Corciulo and his wife, Mina Stefanì, who know how to conquer the hearts of their guests with kindness, professionalism and attention to detail. “We work with quality and for quality,” they say. The entire menu was born from the inventiveness of Luciano, a whimsical and self-taught chef, a great connoisseur of the marine world, which he studies and respects. On the table, always and only the catch of the day declined in tasty variations, given that the chef faithfully follows the seasonality of the fish caught to protect the natural cyclical nature of the sea. Delicate dishes, exclusive flavours and refined combinations. These are just some of the qualities of chef Luciano Corciulo and his staff.

Trattoria Portolano

$$ Riviera Cristoforo Colombo, 69/71, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Il Portolano, a restaurant in Gallipoli where seafood specialities are the reason for the cuisine, focused on the exclusive use of high-quality products; the fresh fish is scrupulously selected from the fishermen's nets that arrive at the small port every day. The Trattoria Portolano restaurant was born from the desire to express that innate passion for the gastronomy culture of Gallipoli that has always accompanied us, a faithful relationship to the ancient recipes handed down in the kitchens of our homes. In a land of fishermen and farmers, of the sea and olive trees, in Salento, the recipes are masterpieces of taste and simplicity: from the encounter of poor ingredients, the wonderful exaltation of flavours is born. The Portolano restaurant is where diners are invited to spend moments of cheerful conviviality, such as a lunch with friends, a family celebration or a candlelit dinner.

Osteria Di Lecce

$$ Via Liborio Romano, 37, 73100, Lecce

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining

In the heart of the historic city of Lecce, Osteria di Lecce offers a quintessential Italian dining experience. The restaurant is celebrated for authentic Apulian cuisine, honouring local culinary traditions and ingredients, making it a popular spot with locals and tourists. The Osteria di Lecce menu celebrates Puglia's rich culinary heritage. The restaurant prides itself on using fresh, local and seasonal ingredients to create traditional Puglian dishes with a modern twist. Among the standout dishes are the homemade "Orecchiette con le Cime di Rapa", a classic local pasta dish with turnip greens, and the "Fave e Cicorie", a hearty broad bean purée served with black cherries. Fish lovers will be delighted by the "Fritto Misto di Mare", a plate of mixed fried seafood with the day's freshest catch. The Osteria di Lecce offers a comfortable and charming environment. The décor features rustic Italian elements, with exposed stone walls and wooden furnishings. Combined with soft lighting and carefully selected tables, the restaurant exudes a warm and inviting atmosphere.

Arte Dei Sapori

$$$ Via Alami, 3, 73100, Lecce

Italian International Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Arte Dei Sapori restaurant is located in the heart of the historic centre of Lecce. Warm and welcoming in winter, with its internal rooms with characteristic star vaults, typical of the buildings in the historic centre of Lecce, suggestive and romantic in summer, in a distinct corner of Leccese Baroque, you can spend your evenings accompanied by delicious food and excellent wines, under the starry sky of Lecce. Our cuisine starts from the typical Salento cuisine to everything the Salento sea offers. We will prepare the fish for you in the most varied ways of cooking, always accompanying the first courses with homemade pasta, the bread of our production, and delicious homemade desserts. The wine list exceeds 120 Salento and national labels. There is no more sincere love than the love of food. Please tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are.

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