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Restaurants in Lecce
Where to eat in Lecce: rustico and pasticciotto, puccia, ciceri e tria, and the Lecce coffee.
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Eating in Lecce
Lecce is the Salento, and the Salento eats wheat, vegetables and fish — with a savoury pastry found nowhere else.
Eaten in the hand
- Rustico leccese — two discs of puff pastry with béchamel, mozzarella and tomato, served hot;
- Puccia — the round Salento bread, filled, or baked with olives inside (*puccia uliata*);
- Pettole, balls of fried dough, in December.
The dishes
- Ciceri e tria — semolina tagliatelle with chickpeas, part of the pasta fried instead of boiled: that is the signature of the dish;
- Sagne 'ncannulate with sauce, and orecchiette with turnip tops;
- Pittule and aubergine parmigiana;
- Municeddhe, land snails, stewed.
The sweet and the coffee
Pasticciotto — shortcrust and custard, served warm — is eaten at breakfast. Caffè leccese is espresso, ice and almond milk: you order it by name, and in summer it is the city's drink.
In the glass
Negroamaro and Primitivo, with Salice Salentino DOC and rosé, which here is a real tradition and not a fashion.
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