Delicious food! Seafood is great! Wonderful view…read more This was my second trip to Italy. The first time I went to Italy, it was a long time ago and it was a quick trip just to see the tourist attractions. This time I stayed a bit longer, went to Milan, and southern Italy. It was on this trip and in particular the Southern Italy part of the trip that I developed a true appreciation for pasta. Fresh pasta with freshly made sauces. Mmmmmh!

Wonderful seafood, wonderful views! This delightful restaurant/pizzeria sits at the edge of the…read moreAdriatic in Capitolo, just south of Monopoli. It has a diverse menu focused primarily on seafood. Bread is served when you sit down along with local olives and two kinds of local "snacks". The pasta with lobster sauce (12 euros), a house specialty, is literally one of the best things I've ever tasted! Reasonable prices, excellent service, and the proprietor graciously allowed me to sit undisturbed for hours after I finished my meal as I planned my travels and watched the turquoise sea crash against the rocks.

Service was terrible and so was the food. We made a reservation for six requesting an outside…read moretable. We were refused an empty outside table for six, and given an indoor table in the back. Food was sub par as well. We were rushed and servers acted annoyed because we were asking questions about the menu and needed a couple of explanations and translations. Avoid!!

Most enjoyable meal in Puglia. Service and seafood were amazing for our party of 8. Conveniently…read morelocated near the waterfront. Crudo Mare was fresh. Tuna tartare, polpo, fried anchovies and fried mixed seafood were all delicious. Server brought us limoncello to cap off the meal.

Food is amazing and plentiful. Wait staff very friendly and accommodating we have been many times…read moreand looking forward to going there soon. The ambiance is wonderful and why not a restaurant by the adriactico sea. Simply lovely the Bella vita.

Beware the tourist rip-off for the "catch of the day". Blatant overcharging and horrible service…read more To add insult to injury, it was frozen fish and seafood - not fresh. This is a tourist trap to be avoided.

Beautiful restaurant with stone arches and ceilings…read more We did the tasting menu. Which was excellent. The tuna tartare was so fresh. The rice and mussels were tasty, however the mussels were tiny. We shared 3 pasta dishes, I really liked the pasta and prawns. We all had the fish special which is cooked with olive oil, zucchini and potatoes and olives. Yumm We were so full that we took dessert home. The service is very good. I highly recommend this restaurant.

We are staying at the Grotta Palazzese, which is the highest end hotel of the region with two…read morereputedly fabulous restaurants. However, other than our breakfasts at the hotel, which we paid to have included with our rooms, we are not likely having dinners here. While their menus will astound many, as well as the views of the caves, which is why many come to dine and visit, we have been seeking less extravagant dinners while here, given our suite is over $1,500 a night at the present Euro conversion. So we consulted YELP for the best rated restaurants in town and that led us here. It was all 4 and 5 ratings, save for a single rating of 1, which was based on a disgruntled patron who never even ate here. They just were declined at the door - due to no reservations, which are recommended - in a manner they deemed obnoxious. It's easy to see why so many though rated this a 5. However, we felt it fell just short in some respects that brought it down to a 4. That said, we are sure many will enjoy a 5 experience. We had a few glasses of local primovito by the glass, which like most places we've dined in Puglia was absurdly reasonable by our local NYC metro area standards. These were poured after complimentary glasses of Prosecco and a lovely small potato soup. We ordered the house special antipasto, which were 5 different small seafood dishes (baked scallops, fried cod, mussels with rice, potatoes, and tomatoes, octopus salad, and yellowfin tuna tartare). This is a must have introduction to any meal. My wife then had one of the catches of the day offerings and I the half lobster with tagliatelle. It's an all seafood restaurant, so if you are looking for something other than that, you'll need to look elsewhere. However, if seafood is your thing, of which there is quite a lot in this town, this restaurant deserves your patronage.

This was such a great place we ate here twice in one week. Similar to some of the BBQ restaurants…read morein the area but this is all fish. It is not fancy but incredible value and great fish! You select the fresh fish you like from the counter and then tell them how you want it cooked, pick what you want to drink and then go find a table. The mixed fried fish has exactly what you want, you select your own mix. The oven baked Cernia was amazing! Give it a try!

This restaurant is off the beaten path. The sea food is fresh. It was so good to be able to order…read morewhatever we wanted from the selection and have it cooked the way we wanted. They have soft drinks, beer and wine. The mussels in white wine were excellent. We also had a grilled fish and the spaghetti with sea food. Delicious. The ambiance is relaxed. A very good food experience

We spent an hour wandering the streets of the historic center when we stumbled upon this local gem…read more We have no idea how this compares to the other seafood restaurants in Taranto but we enjoyed ourselves and by the looks on the other faces in the crowded dining room it looked like were were not alone. During out entire 1-2 hours here we heard not a word of English. It looked like a local joint with families and singles on dates well represented in the crowd. We were greeted at the door like we were long lost relatives and hustled right away to a table. We were presented with menus but before we could open them we were beckoned into the next room where all manner of fresh caught seafood was lying on ice. I assume they were telling us to pick out what we wanted to eat (some of the choices were still moving around) but as they spoke no English and I even less Italian they could have been telling us anything and I would not have had a clue. We picked out swordfish, calamari, bream and something else that looked adventurous. At each selection the animal was ceremoniously plucked off the ice and placed on a large silver platter. Once we were done we were led back to our table which had been adorned with bread and cutlery in our absence. We still had not opened a menu. We looked around and noticed nobody had menus and they simply told the waiters what they wanted and a few minutes later it magically appeared from the next room on silver platters for the diners to inspect. Once approved the sea creatures were then off to the kitchen and their fate. Needless to say it was delicious and as fresh a fish as I have ever eaten. And I have lived on the beach where seafood was there for the taking. Not only did we have our fill but it was the perfect fuel for our mile walk through the February night back to the hotel. Our entire bill including wine was $46.00 We would definitely come back.

Great seafood right on the sea, where you can also swim and eat fresh mussels and fishread more

Fish is super fresh, wine list is great and the beer is great…read more Service is wonderful and the scene is amazing

This place is freaking awesome. My friends and I came for seafood and we found everything…read moreincredibly delicious and fresh. Traditional apulian recipes mixed with contemporary cuisine. Great mix of appetiziers and first and second dishes both fish and meat based. A must try in Ostuni. 5plus

We had dinner there a couple of days ago. We both had caprese salad I had pasta with clams then the…read morerabbit special. My wife had the gnocchi. All food was excellent as was the service.

our first time and certainly not our last...best service i've seen so far. Always at least one…read morelooking if a client needs something. Max is in charge and you see that. Now to the food...excellent oysters, carbonara and cavatelli al soglio...and the desserts we loved it