La locandiera is one of the best restaurants in Basilicata. Its address is:

Corso Umberto I 194, Bernalda (Basilicata), tel. 0835.543241

It’s a little restaurant but rich  in tasty food, affability and kidness of the owners.
Here you can taste the real cuisine of Basilicata, especially of Bernalda and Metapontum.
We had dinner in this restaurant few days ago and we could test various courses from appetizers to pasta and pork meat cooked with orange juice.
The owners offer you a lot of courses in little amount.    So we had the opportunity to eat vegetables cooked in different ways, a classical soup of Bernalda named crapiata, their pasta dressed with a lot of sauces and so on.

The Italian cuisine is great!
Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta

Hi, yesterday night we ate in a “trattoria”, that is a traditional little restaurant. Its name is Da Fifina (Corso Umberto 63 – Bernalda).
We tasted traditional cuisine of this region.
The owner suggests the typical dish of the day. So we started with a selection of seafood (octopus salad, steamed mussels and marinated anchovies) and land food (omelette,   raw ham, grilled aubergines in vinegar, bell peppers in oil, artichokes in oil, mozzarella cheese and bruschetta with tomatoes). Then the first courses: pasta with beans and mussels for me and pasta with aubergines, cherry tomatoes and bell peppers for Carlo. We closed with a platter of tasty fried fish.
Low cost, tasty food … a nice evening

Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta

This year we have decided to spend our holidays at Metapontum, near Bernalda in the south of Italy.
Metapontum is in Basilicata. Basilicata is an Italian region known also as Lucania. Basilicata has two coasts: on the Ionian and Tyrrhenian sea.
Metapontum is in front of the Ionian Coast, on the part of the Gulf of Taranto, as you can see in the Google map.
This coast of Basilicata facing the Ionian sea is one of the best destination for families who had children. Its beach is long, wide and sandy; the sea bottom is shallow.
We have chosen to stay at Bernalda; so we  are in a little hotel  (Hotel I Pitagorici) with little apartments so we can cook everything we want and are independent. Metapontum is 12-13 kilometers from here.
There is a little market near the hotel where we can buy very fresh fish, local vegetable and fruit, typical cheese and meat.
We like this place. We’re spending slow holidays, far from frenzy of  the modern  life.

Besides it’s a place rich in culture. Metapontum was founded by Greeks in the seventh century BC. So you can visit  some archaeological sites including Tables Palatine, a zone vestiges, a agora, a theatre and a museum. We are going to tell you about these archaeological sites in the following days.

We’re going to test local cuisine in a typical trattoria at Bernalda tonight. Tomorrow we’ll tell you of the traditional dishes.

Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta