L'orchidea In Matera

11/10/2023: Questo posto valorizza la zona, ricca di storia. Il restauro della struttura ha mantenuto inaltetato l ambiente, arricchendolo di profumi e gusti eccezionali. Buona anche l alternativa al menu per i vegetariani.

24/09/2023: Agree in full with the previous review written in English. Superb in both food, setting and service. Owner of both the restaurant and the attached hotel, this was among our finest dinners in Basilicata on this, our third trip to this relatively undiscovered region. The restaurant occupies handsome and historically impeccable premises. The owner is an architect and his wife does the cooking. We sat on the lovely outdoor stone terrace and savored an antipasto of mixed Km 0 products, followed by outstanding pasti including mine with guanciale, the legendary red peppers of nearby Senise, tomatoes and melted caciocavallo cheese. We shared an outstanding veal secondi perfumed by the oranges grown in Tursi which have been lauded by SlowFood Italia as among the heritage foods of the country that are worth this much coveted designation. By USA standards prices are more than reasonable. Make the trip and take time to visit the neighborhood in which it is located, the centuries old quarter known as the Rabatana. Tursi is an easy hour long drive from Matera and much closer to both Senise and Pisticchi!!