Trattoria "Terra Madre"

An old house of seven trulli was initially the headquarters of our incoming tour operator Charming Tours, and then became the breakfast room for the widespread hotel Rione Pentimi. Encouraged by the guests' requests for the overall hotel, it became a restaurant after a few years. The kitchen has taken the place of the old stable, while the small rooms of the trattoria sit under the cones of the Trulli or overlooking the rows in a welcoming, familiar atmosphere for a few close friends, where you experience the warmth of a host family your friends, where the story and the story of each simple dish becomes a reason for pleasant conversations and cultural exchange with simple words to replicate at home.

Years of travelling abroad between different "cuisines", sometimes too fast and hasty and often unhealthy, have given birth to a strong desire in me to make known the true, and sometimes even extreme, taste of healthy, pure and genuine vegetables combined with simple and now forgotten dishes. For these reasons, the intentional and targeted choice from the outset was to serve unpretentious dishes, marrying new preparation techniques, low temperatures, steam cooking, the search for crunchiness, little frying and the absence of butter or vegetable fats. A welcome of raw vegetables at the beginning of meals in the summer, soups and velvety soups in winter, carpaccio of vegetables and legumes, combined with real temptations coming exclusively from the Alberobello countryside. Family-run farms and farms produce homemade bread delivered hot in the morning, prepared with sourdough and "senator hats" flour, slightly bitter goat cheeses, lean and fragrant capocollo, cured meats, burrata, ricotta, scamorza.