I Malampi - Carta

Origini

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

Carta • Caffè • Asiatico • 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

Carta • 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

Carta • 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

Carta • 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."

L'aia Noa

➤ Via Gallipoli 87, 73011, Alezio, Italy

Carta • Pizza • Sushi • Caffè • Asiatico

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"We are Dutch,live in Salento and are used to the good Salento cuisine. On a recent little trip to Gallipoli, through Alezio, we stopped at this Osteria-Trattoria. Were we in for a pleasant surprise. One of the owners (Emanuele) welcomed us and let us choose a table.Service was excellent and efficient. but also warm and friendly. When we looked at the menu and the wine list we wondered how the food would be at those low prices: EXCELLENT: We ordered several dishes and enjoyed each one. Emanuele stopped by our table and we chatted about the the restaurant, the service and the quality of the real Salento food served. As we said: We will be back. _____________________"