Braceria Il Casolare

Origini

➤ Corso Cesare Vergine 30, 73058 Tuglie Italia, TUGLIE, Italy

Menu • Caffè • Europeo • Messicano • Vegetariano

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"We got here upon a suggestion from locals. No regrets! It’s a simple restaurant offering in one side one of the best pizza we ever had in the south of Italy. You can customise a lot, you can ask, as we did, pizza stesa bene … which is not much Neapolitan style but rather roman style, thin and crispy. I asked a bianca with alici a fine cottura (better! and was like having a crostino romano. As a starter we had two tarallo fritto, one with burrata and capocollo di martina franca that was SUPER! My wife had Tarallo and mozzarella plus parma ham, excellent as well (but mine was better . We had a primitivo red wine, almost 15 degrees, that improved substantially our happiness. The restaurant also serves buns and pucce with hamburgers… forget standard style, these are 100% home made a-z. We say it passing by but were too full to try. Hope next time. Price… insignificant really. Only for locals apparently, no tourists around. We’ll come again! Thanks for serving us with a smile that only in Salento you could receive"

Le Macare

➤ Via Mariana Albina, 140, 73011, Alezio, Italy

Menu • Caffè • Asiatico • Messicano • Vegetariano

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"So it’s august and hot here of course. Apparently I needed to tick a box on the fork website to get an outside table. .we asked for one ..you know when someone is faking being helpful..yup anyway .. “Inside is air con” Sat in a hot room, near the kitchen, with air conditioning that couldn’t be improved for us.. Ordered some wine..yup that was hot too! Not sure they cared until h about that either really. We have been in the area all this week. This was the worst meal. Why? It’s trying very hard to be different and making a mess of it..trying to be different is great but it’s not successful. Risotto with raw prawns doesn’t work..the arborio was too stodgy. Raw prawns don’t work..both in texture and taste with the risotto..too much lemon ..again why? The steak was poor quality..bad choice from me but just fancied a steak and chips with primitivo and chips were soggy..(cooked in olive oil..wow..how new and exciting…and yet utter rubbish…but when I cook potatoes in olive oil they crisp up… Bread was excellent.. Had to sit in the car between courses and couldn’t wait to leave. 137 ish euros. Wish we had been at il bastione as we were yesterday..that was faultless. This isn’t."

La Corte Dei Simonari

➤ Via Giusti, 22, 73017, TUGLIE, Italy

Menu • Sushi • Asiatico • Messicano • Vegetariano

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"local Salento, located in a small alley, courteous staff but, slow in service and a little confused in the comande. Menù, purely Apulian with traditional dishes, the great pugliese appetizer with small quite good goats but the eggplant of cold eggplants, good instead the swordfish carpaccio with jam and frittini. excellent pici with parmesan cream served in the characteristic form. while the linguini to the ricci insapori and with very little curl. ears at the top of the turnip with anchovies not commentary, second fried of normal calamari, while the carpaccio squid calamari well grilled, with contour of potatoes, served cold wing. sweet, good bread with English cream. prices in the norm, you could however improve in the goto of some dishes, and painful note the dishes must be served all together and not to spicy. ?"

1489 Food Pop

➤ Via Lecce 173, 73014, Italia, GALLIPOLI, Italy

Menu • Cibo • Pizza • Pasta • Carne

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"I was staying in the adjoining campsite and they booked a table for me, I thought it was for the on site restaurant, but we were pointed in the direction of Food Pop which turned out to be a trendy restaurant. Very different for Southern Italy. There was a good selection on the menu, something for everyone and a decent wine list as well. The service was excellent, attentive, but not over the top. Food arrived timely and all drinks etc were delivered promptly. The food on the whole was good, I had tempura vegetables, the batter was a bit heavy for tempura and my wife’s pizza was a bit soggy. She did enjoy the antipasto of cheeses with jams though. Special mention to the strawberry cheesecake, which was not a slice of UK cheesecake, a bit deconstructed, but excellent. A good restaurant and good value for money."

Locanda Dei Viandanti Trattoria Pizzeria

➤ 12, Via Regina Elena, SANNICOLA, Italy

Menu • Pizza • Sushi • Asiatico • Messicano

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"Abbiamo trovato questa locanda per puro caso avendo voglia della cucina bolognese. Pochi tavoli ma Abbiamo potuto gustare le pietanze tipiche bolognesi che avevamo già avuto la possibilità di mangiare a Bologna. Cucinato con cura, I taglieri affettati e tagliati al momento. Ottime le tagliatelle fatte a mano al ragù tipico, ottimi pure i secondi . Unico neo non specificare il taglio di carne a che animale apparteneva. Ottima la scelta dei vini di cantine locali. Prezzo nella media. La cucina prevede anche altre pietanze salentine. Da ritornare ma sempre a pranzo perchè è una preparazione un po' pesante per la sera."