Alberobello Part II

OK, normally I try to have a blog entry for each day, but today I need to have two.

Our evening was just really, really, really good.

We started out with an evening wine tasting at Paco Wines. Paco is so enthusiastic and has some very good wines by the glass. We restricted ourselves to the two local varieties that you almost never see in Australia, susumaniello and negroamaro. Two really nice wines in lively surroundings! Each quite different but very enjoyable.

 Then we walked up the hill to the restaurant where Kate had made a booking for dinner. With the festival on, the streets were ablaze with lights and people out to see them.

Then the restaurant turned on the best, best meal of the trip so far. Kudos to Kathleen for making the booking. It is only a small restraurant and it was full. While we were there they turned away many potential customers.. obvioously have an excellent reputation  and it is deserved!

 Just no nonsense great food. I walked in with a hankering for garlic and I had spagetti ali oli which was just excellent and then capocollo.

Good negroamaro with it!

I ended up having dolce (lovely selection of almond meal  biscuits), coffee and grappa!

We ended the night with a photo with  the chef and "the boss".

Just memorable.