09/07/2025: Tradition, authenticity, and spontaneity!
Trattoria Iolanda is the pinnacle of home-style Salento cuisine. The restaurant is authentic, rustic, and family-friendly, the staff is friendly and genuine, and the menu embodies traditional, high-quality cuisine. The fried pasta appetizer is highly recommended, as is the fresh homemade pasta with sauce and horse meat (and coming from a Catania native who grew up eating horse meat, you can trust me), as are the meat-based main courses and the excellent pasticciotto cake. The price is truly superb! (Just over €35 per person for an appetizer, a first course, a meat-based main course, a side dish, dessert, wine, and water. Where can you find such low prices for such high quality these days?)
In short: wonderful atmosphere, excellent menu, super prices... What more can I say?
Well, the poem posted in the room speaks the truth: "When you get up because you have to leave, I swear, you do it with great longing!"
Highly recommended!
06/07/2025: Very good orecchiette...I will definitely return