Restaurants in the province of Taranto

Taranto is two seas and an old town on the water: mussels are both an industry and an identity, and the Itria valley behind brings the cheese and the meat.

What you eat here

• Taranto mussels — farmed in the Mar Piccolo, eaten raw, gratinated, or *impepata*.
• Oysters and raw seafood, with lemon and nothing else.
• Capocollo di Martina Franca, smoked, and the valley's bombette.
• Orecchiette with mussels and chickpeas, and tiella of rice, potato and mussels.
• Laterza bread and friselle; Primitivo goes into the cooking too.

The wine

Primitivo di Manduria DOC is the name that made Primitivo known worldwide, and its Dolce Naturale version is a DOCG. Around it, Negroamaro and Verdeca whites.

Opening hours 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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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.