Came here while visiting San Giovanni Rotondo for the Padre Pio sanctuary. Family vacation in Italy…read morebrought me to Bari area and after 7 hour drive from southern Italy in September my family and I checked into a cute hotel and asked for restaurant recommendations--it was a Thursday evening in September and there was not many places available. Side note--locals tend to eat a late dinner so a lot of Italian restaurants open late (this one I believed opened at 7:30pm). It's a little more upscale than the others I had seen. For instance, the other restaurants in area offer a "menu touristico" which is pretty much a 3-course meal at a set price. This location was mainly a la carts and although prices were higher they weren't terribly high. We spent about €80 for dinner for five people which included beer and sparkling water. The ambiance looks classy and upscale (we felt a little underdressed)--service was decent. Food had mixed reviews. Portions looked small but I felt were pretty filling. The good comments on food were that the sauce in pasta tasted very fresh and the pasta (which was handmade) was also very good. So so comments were that some of the dishes were too salty. Personally I had the spaghetti with olives and sausage so that's the only one I can truly speak to--the pasta was perfectly al dente (which I find hard to do at home with spaghetti) the sauce resembled fresh crushed tomatoes and not watery or oily at all. I don't eat olives that much but I think that's what made the dish salty for my Dad who ordered the same thing. The sausage is crumbled sausage and is mixed into sauce.
If your looking for white glove experience type dinner then check this place out.
