Trattoria La Botte - POLIGNANO A MARE

Bad eating if not bad eating we try in puglia very close, service correct and location good.

I'm so confused by the other reviews. After travelling Italy for last 2 weeks and finding a lot of average to good restaurants, I can honestly say this was a little hidden gem and I loved it. If you're expecting italian restaurants to hand make...all their pasta and make their own meats and cheese from scratch they don't. Most places will handmake 1 or 2 pastas and it'll emphasise on the menu that it's their HANDMADE pasta. We came here for lunch and I would highly recommend. Little terrace balcony away from the hustle and bustle. Started with a great caprese salad. We then got the octopus and a seafood pasta. Both were fantastic!! Fresh and tasty seafood. Reasonable prices. I thought it was great

I just don't get some of these reviews, we had an absolutely fantastic lunch (seafood pasta) and the service was great. after a month of fine eating in italia, this was actually up there, at least for lunch. easy, but great.

Begin with the positive service, personal, location well eat very common my meal of ravioli from spinat ricotta served in butter sage sauce was disgusting I created the spinat ricotta I was so hungry) the. teig was totally inedible the whole meal came swimming in melted butter with 2 sage leaves on the other main meal was spaghetti ragu meat sauce was gray tastlose iss somewhere different

But unfortunately I cannot avoid it with la botte. how difficult it must be to pamper a carbonara with a type of sink from the next discounter completely, just to have an alibi, something similar. imagine they decide to try. the typical parmigiana at this place and they meet some tasteless, repeatedly heated meatballs in a tomato sauce from a dose (in the middle of the topshit tomato season! and the carbonara di mare. Luckily, I lack enough English skills to describe this. it is almost impossible to have a bad meal in southern Italy otherwise, but la offered seems to survive on the baptism of desperate tourist who think in polignano that it is almost impossible to have a bad meal in S.Italy!