FLAG:  Restaurant – Pizzeria “Guarda che luna”

ADDRESS AND TOWN:  Via Jeduca 2 – Vieste (FG) – Apulia –  Italy

WEBSITE:   None

LOCAL PRODUCTS – TYPICAL CUISINE: All the menu is dedicated to Apulian products. We ordered two different starters (a seafood salad and a mixture of local cold cuts and cheeses), one main course (squid ink troccoli) and a meat course (calf with rocket salad and grana cheese). Ten minutes later my order, I asked to substitute the meat course with a first course, but I received a curt negation: “No, I’m sorry! Your meat course is cooking yet.”, he said, serving the appetizers…..Ok…

The seafood salad, at the first taste, shocked me! It was disgusting! The seafood was old, dry and drowned in extra virgin olive oil, to mask the taste. I sent it back complaining what happened. They didn’t propose us something else to apologize.

Our first and meat courses arrived. The meat I asked with ‘blue steak’ cooking was quite pink only in the middle (maybe they don’t know what ‘blue steak cooking’ means or maybe they cooked the meat in that way because it comes from a very cold place) and with the black scorching of the grill (scorched grease) that proved slightly bitter. Squid ink troccoli was served spicy. The chili sauce with fish! Never!!

LOCATION AND INTERIORS:    To reach the restaurant you should walk through a street that seems going on forever……and after three flights of stairs and you arrive finally. The view from terrace isn’t so beautiful. The back rooms in the restaurant don’t exist. The toilets are upstairs, above the kitchen and the chimney. Boiling. We dined with the ants.

PRICES: Appetizers – average € 10/15 /// Main Courses – average € 10/12 /// Second Courses (Fish) – average € 15 /// Second Courses – average € 10/12 /// Pizzas – average € 8 /// Wines – average € 18.

BIKER FRIENDLY:    Absolutely NOT for bikers.