Osteria La Perla del Sud — Restaurant in Trani

After 12 perfect days (of a 3 week round trip in Puglia only) and having enjoyed delicious food from lunch to dinner every day, we stepped in this tourist trap. Food is not fresh at all, simple fried anchovies (acciuge) did not have a consistent structure, thus not fresh, was not crispy. The “polpo” (arms of octopus, not the sepia or calamar) was a hidden kind of calamar, it was rubber, caoutchouc type and uneatable. Polpo arms are normally ~2cm thick here in south Italy and very fresh and enjoyable food in all type of preparations. Here the pieces were not recognizable and were the little spare arms of a calamar. They were white and chewy, I could not enter my fork into a 1 cm thick piece of chewy fish. I returned the whole plate. As secundo (main dish) we ordered Orata and Spigola (seabream and seabass), instead we got two Orata. I did not accept it, as I had those two times during last week and wanted to switch to my wife’s prior selection of Spigola. Message from the chef: sorry we are out of Spigola… still he accepted my order, probably with the expectation that being a tourist I would accept everything and eat everything they serve. Result, my wife kind of finished here plate, I had no secundo. Thus: NO over the whole line. Furthermore, quality was overall poor, service was inexisting from the start while being assigned a table, and I had a debate with the surprisingly young female owner who understood and spoke English (mind I do understand Italian and also speak some basic Italian language) who started to contest my experience and led us to a discussion I don’t want to have on a vacation. Bottomline: Stay away, Avoid, Tourist...

Bonjour, nous cherchions un endroit non touristique pour être accueilli comme il ce doit la gastronomie italienne : nous avons choisi de prendre un plateau antipaste de fruit de mer pour trois personnes nous avons dû négocier qui allais prendre quoi par ce qu’il n’avait pas trois huître ou trois crevettes,…. Assez pauvres aussi et très peux fourni comme sur la photo ci dessus assez décevant pour une critique gastronomique pour le plats nous avons aimer mes sans plus mon risotto était très moins fournie que d’autre que j’ai pur voir passer assez incompréhensible et décevant pour le prix qui est assez conséquent en soit cela ne me dérange pas de mettre le prix mes au moins d’être au même niveau que tout le monde j’adore manger et découvrir partager Mon expérience et ma Fête des mère était un peut tristounete dans un endroit pourtant magnifique.

Buongiorno, stavamo cercando un posto non turistico dove essere accolti come si deve per quanto riguarda la gastronomia: abbiamo scelto di prendere un piatto di antipasti di frutti di mare per tre persone, ma abbiamo dovuto negoziare chi avrebbe preso cosa perché non c’erano tre ostriche o tre gamberi… Piuttosto povero e molto poco fornito, come si può vedere anche dalla foto sopra, piuttosto deludente per una recensione gastronomica.

Per quanto riguarda i piatti, ci sono piaciuti ma senza entusiasmarci. Il mio risotto era molto meno abbondante rispetto ad altri che ho visto passare, cosa abbastanza incomprensibile e deludente considerando il prezzo, che è piuttosto elevato. Non mi dispiace pagare, ma almeno vorrei essere trattato allo stesso livello degli altri.

Adoro mangiare, scoprire e condividere le mie esperienze, ma la mia Festa della Mamma è stata un po’ tristanzuola in un posto che, tra l’altro, è...

Great location, directly next to the port. Food is really only average. Alici & marinated sword fish were unfortunately almost tasteless. The tune tatar was literally cut tuna without seasoning, herbs or anything. Despite not busy that evening service was quite slow - yet friendly. We waited for example 35 mins after the dishes were removed until someone took attention & we could order a coffee. The coffee again took 10mins… Net: good for the location, but really not for for food nor service...