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Restaurants in Taranto
Where to eat in Taranto: Mar Piccolo mussels, oysters, Martina Franca capocollo, and Primitivo di Manduria.
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The catalogue currently covers Pistoia and Prato, and grows one province at a time. This town may also be listed under a different name: try searching for it.
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From the Bitebooker blog
We have not written about this town yet. In the meantime: how bookings, requests and reviews work.
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Instant confirmation or on request: what actually changes
On the same page, two restaurants can behave in two different ways. The difference isn’t cosmetic: it’s whether the table is yours or not.
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Where the listings come from, and why they’re sometimes wrong
No restaurateur asked to be here. That’s why the catalogue is broad, and it’s also why it goes stale.
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«All verified»: what it means, and what it doesn’t
Here a review is tied to a meal that took place. It is an inconvenient rule — it shuts a lot of people out — and everything that «all verified» can promise lives inside it.
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Eating in Taranto
Taranto is the city of two seas, and mussel farming in the Mar Piccolo is documented from Roman times.
From the sea
- Taranto mussels, raw, gratinated, or in the tiella with rice and potatoes;
- Oysters from the Mar Piccolo, eaten at the counter with lemon;
- Alici arraganate and curled octopus, beaten against the rocks;
- Ciambotto, the fisherman's soup of small fish.
From inland
The Valle d'Itria starts half an hour away: Capocollo di Martina Franca, a Slow Food presidium smoked over fragno oak, and the bocconcini of Murgia mozzarella.
The sweets
Pettole in December, sannacchiudere, and Christmas cartellate.
In the glass
Primitivo di Manduria DOC belongs to this province, along with Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale DOCG; in white, the Verdeca of the Valle d'Itria.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
Other towns in the province of Taranto
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.