Il Vico Del Gusto • Ristorante — Restaurant in Lecce

Good food and bad hospitality marked our much anticipated visit here. We had booked our table several weeks earlier. But when we arrived a rather annoyed looking girl wanted to seat us on the outside sidewalk. This is not a quaint side street, but a main road full of traffic and diesel fumes! Finally an older gentleman gave us a table indoors, and there were several empty tables. As soon as we were seated, they turned off the A/C unit above us and the restaurant rapidly heated up. This was on June 30th - weather service had issued an Extremely high temperature warning ‼️ Several other patrons had hand held fans, and repeated requests did not get the A/C turned on. The other big negative was being served good wine in cheap glasses - please consider buying better glassware. No excuse in Italy for using ugly, heavy wine glasses in a nice restaurant. Zafferano makes some excellent ones. Food and wine were great and we managed to survive the sweltering heat. Things could have been so much better and that makes it...

We had a reservation and once arrived, they did not ask us if we preferred outside or inside and sat us directly inside. The rest of the guests arrived later and we had to ask for the other menus after a while, even if a few servers looked at the table, not the kind of service expected, from such a pretentious place. Food was average, local dishes with a “twist”, except for the sgombro and here again another couple of notes for the service: Throughout the dinner, no one asked if everything was ok, plus a server in particular (with the glasses) when handing the dishes, wasn’t asking of who was the plate and just putting it on the table and when clearing it she was borderline rude asking the guests to be careful instead of her making sure not to touch the diners. In the end, when it was the time to pay the bill, again, we have not been asked if everything was fine. There are definitely more...

I never post reviews but have to for this restaurant. It is just right on the edge of the Old Town, and has amazing food and service for its really reasonable price. Every dish has a creative twist to it (which you don't find often in Italy) and the setting was perfect. One of the best and most value restaurant that we ate at during our month long trip in Italy. And trust us we eat out a lot and are quite critical eaters. The restaurant still had a few empty tables on a Wed night, but we believe the restaurant should be full with its quality, service and price point! Please go there and support the restaurant and the staff who are so kind (esp the lady with...