I PORTICI Beerstrot Italiano - Gallipoli — Restaurant in Gallipoli

Bearing in mind this place is rated number 4 on Tripadvisor… the manager completely ignored us when his waitress told him we had a reservation (we booked several months ago). I had to say “Good evening!” pretty pointedly to get any response. The selection of craft beers is very good and our Negroamaro wine was also excellent. Our starter was also very tasty - the bresaola carpaccio. My wife enjoyed her Quattro Staggione pizza too.

I ordered steak with porcini mushrooms and roast potatoes for my main. The potatoes were served mostly cold to tepid. As were the porcini, mostly lukewarm warm and the middle of some were just plain cold. How hard is it to keep vegetables hot?!

I explained to the so-called ‘manager’ when paying our bill (from which they’d deducted €10 that I’d rather pay full price than have to complain and all he said was that he “understood” ie he couldn’t care less, or that was the impression he gave.

Overall therefore: underwhelming and most definitely not worth the Tripadvisor rating it...

We were a party of 4 very hungry cyclists and have just had a beautiful meal here tonight. We were looked after by a lovely waitress called Jennifer. When our language differences got in the way, she quickly used Google Translate to help us get what we needed. We had 2 lovely burgers, a pizza and a beef, rocket, tomato and Parmesan cheese dish recommended by Jennifer. We followed this with a chocolate semifreddo and a strawberry panna cotta. Best meal I have eaten in Italy so far this week. Jennifer was such a...

Some dishes were really good like the onion rings, the fries, the meat/cheese platter. The service is fast and friendly and the atmosphere is cute and modern but they unfortunately don’t have a fully functioning AC which is difficult during such high temperatures. The grilled breaded chicken was really disappointing, it is soggy, flavorless and not appetizing at all. The salad and legumes seem to be rather old and tasteless served without dressing. The cheese choice was...