Via Filippo Corridoni, 29

Phone +39 080 5238341

This is the right place if you want to come into contact with the classic tastes of Bari and you don’t care too much about the service and the hotellerie. Here you can find the “panzarotto” with turnip tops, peppers with potatoes and rice with potatoes and mussels. It is located at the entrance of the historical center, it is under two stone vault arches. There are about ten tables with the typical tablecloths of the trattorias of the Seventies which we know thanks to oleographs. This restaurant was opened in 1971 by the pleasant Antonio Evangelista, who is only apparently a brusque man, as he defines himself. Since the opening he has always been in the kitchen and he has always proposed a wide choice of starters including toasted bread, “scamorza” cheese, tomatoes and salamis and some classic dishes like spaghetti with cherry tomatoes, olives and capers or “cavatelli” (a kind of pasta) with chickpeas. You will particularly enjoy the fried food, the “polenta” (a type of ‘bread’ made with cornflour) and the “panzarotti” (they are similar to calzones), the small savoury doughnuts or the “paranza” fish. All the dishes are prepared as you wait and they aren’t oily. The home made desserts are superb. You can drink some good wines from Apulia at a moderate price. You will roughly spend 20 Euros.