#1 MOST ROMANTIC RESTAURANT IN ITALY | Italy Travel Vlog

So we're about to go to one of the

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s I've been dreaming about for a long time. And you've probably seen it in a lot of magazines and that's the grotto part. This

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is located literally in one of the caverns facing the Adriatic Sea and we will have dinner there tonight. Thank you. I think your outfit is stellar for tonight. I'm very excited. Well, not the moment I saw that dress I said, it's everything we had imagined. Very excited, wow. Beautiful. This is without a doubt a restaurant that takes your breath away. Oh, again, we just upgraded the table.

Beautiful. this is great. Perfect Grazia, oh wow. Thank you. Magnificent spectacular As ordered outside the you can take a Test Menu or magic magic or sharpening. It just ends with efficiency And you can take whatever you want from here yeah, okay or starter or pasta or main dish So one, two or three dishes, it's just that the portions adjust if you do one, two or three. It is a normal portion. Not so big. Not too small. Well? Well, is it basically? So if you order a la carte, is it still 180 euros? How does it work? Well, you can choose up to three for the 180.

Yes. Okay. So, a starter, a pasta and a main course or A pasta, a main course and a dessert, we have it. Well, sorry, long day, um, okay, I think we need a couple of minutes to look at the menu. Well, it's very easy when they explain it to you. you here, it's actually quite nice and quite expensive. Basically, you have the option of having a tasting menu, which is a fish tasting menu or a fish and meat tasting menu. Imagico is all fish. The lovely thing is fish and meat or you can order a la carte dishes, starters, pastas, main courses or dessert and basically for 180 euros, you can order one, two or three of those, so starter, main dessert or starter, pasta maine, Which is probably how I'm going to go.

We left the ice cream for later Uh or for 220 you can eat everything, but it's better to save the dessert for the square. You look stunning. Oh, sweet De And so what's the wine? This is beautiful. Thanks for the recommendation So Anna, what are we getting tonight for wine? Um, so we have a local wine, it's completely, it's um. It's a San Marzano, this wine is absolutely perfect for food and we'll have some really nice fruit. It's a dry white wine, but very fruity and with just a small note of gasoline, which is like gasoline, um.

It sounds strange, but gasoline. Take that broom out of the room. It's actually a really lovely note in a natural wine for everyone, can you? smell it? It smells very good whatever it is No, whatever is good So at 180 euros per person I will not bring any souvenir from Cologne, the souvenir will be in my ballet. Well, then blue lobster, steamed watermelon torito, almond and thyme sauce, amberjack. marinated basil fennel raspberry Raw red prawns crayfish tuna caviar grapefruit and celery sounds like a compost uh pork feather celery pyramid So this is the kind of menu that is quite intriguing and is also extremely difficult to judge from the ingredients because, um , it's not that we don't know or don't know what they are, but each one of them will truly be a masterpiece.

So when I'm in this kind of situation, one of the things I like to do is ask the waiter what his recommendation is - they'll be much more familiar with the cuisine here than I am. So I'll ask you for recommendations for the starter, pasta and main course. So we're ready, yeah. Usually the ladies first. Um, and why don't you place your order first? Well, I think I really know what I want. Um, I know we'd like to start with the raw. Yeah Um and the spaghettoni sound fantastic And I'm crazy And I was a little torn between the sea bass and the turbo turban for me Really?

Well. I leaned a little towards the sea bus. Which one do you think is best for me? What do you think is the best difference between here we have onions? Okay, I'm going to make the three dishes. And I would like your recommendation, yes, to start. That's exactly it. what I wanted, okay, let's start with the feather pork that has yak celery puree and mergia, is that how you pronounce that? black truffle I love truffle And then for pasta For me it's the best, but So for a different one, well, what should I get? You can have the drink.

Okay, that sounds fantastic, so riso, beetroot, provola, cheese fondue, and squid. And then, for the main course. You can have Well, I'll tell you what I was thinking about the coffee. What do you prefer, sea bass or beef cheeks? I prefer the sea bus. We are going to do sea baths. We are in the Adriatic. I can't stop fishing. Perfect Thank you, thank you and what's your name? Wow, beautiful. So tonight's dinner at Garato Palestine is going to be spectacular, three courses of carefully selected fish and a fantastic wine from Julia to make it look like Marie Angela, we have an aperitif.

Yes, we start in the glass. We have a beautiful zucchini with cheese and tomato mayonnaise. We have bread for you. Our starter tonight is a beautiful fun bush, which is an absolutely elegant colour. This beautiful creamy tomato puree with burrata. And I think the fresh zucchini on the bottom with the beautiful flowers on top and then some fresh lemon zest, how elegant. And this looks good. I mean, I have to Hmm Everything here so far in Grotto Palette. Look, I'm going to ask them how to say that name. Because my Italian is horrible, how do you pronounce the restaurant?

Oh, and that's the best it's going to be with my poor Italian son, my ancestors are rolling in their graves, but the restaurant is fabulous, the amus bush out of this world, the bread fantastic, from homemade to the raleigh, to this beautiful flatbread. Excellent start. to the food The pig's feather puma Wow, I love some Demi-glass and potato chips. Wow, this is spectacular. Thanks What is this? A tuna with reddish brown shrimp and caviar with celery and grapefruit. Wow, there are so many beautiful flavors in this dish. The beautiful celery puree gives it a really light but still very distinctive flavor.

The truffle Fabulous, that earthy garlic flavor. The pork completely melts in my mouth. That? as a starter I have to tell you, this pork is so good. All this experience here in pleasant pallade mira Is that good enough? This whole experience in pleasant palette has been incredible, the flavor of this dish is to die for. I am so happy I came here tonight and if you are on your honeymoon this is your place to go. I got the raw dish and it has tuna with red shrimp, white shrimp caviar, celery and grapefruit and it is amazing.

The texture of red shrimp in particular is buttery, silky, soft and absolutely sensual. What are we talking about here? Delicious food. You know, if it's your honeymoon, this is probably what you want before the night begins. She is not beautiful? Hmm. Beautiful spaghetto pasta with retro Gallipoli or China sea crown and truffle. Beautiful, enjoy. Thank you This beet risotto is delicious with squid. It is absolutely one of the freshest risottos I have ever had. And I haven't even tried it yet, but I can tell you it's absolutely beautiful. Beautiful char on the squid. Well, there are two.

For two, it's not often that I am impressed with a meal. And this is quite a meal. This risotto is fabulous, perfectly cooked al dente, but the star of this dish, as you can imagine, is the calamari? and it completely melts in your mouth. I have never had squid so tender and that is not easy to do because squid cooks too easily. It's absolutely incredible. For the show. Take a piece of spread, do whatever you want. I'll take half a squid so I don't eat all your saliva. Hey, that's valuable, the squid queen has approached my plate.

That is beautiful. So tender, so delicious. This risotto is delicious. It's a very unusual dish, the risotto is actually cooked in beet juice, which is why it has this beautiful beach red color. The squid is beyond tender. And in fact, something that really enhances the overall complexity of the flavor of this dish. Is provolone fondue absolutely? Excellent, so what do we have here tonight now for the main course? With leek, cranberry and onion puree, it is beautiful. The aromas are really fantastic, really beautiful and we have Wow, dinner is literally a work of art. And it's time to satisfy my palate.

We have the beautifully prepared sea bass and I have never seen it like this in these individual fillet sections with the beautiful. mash I don't even know what's here. We just heard from mary. Angela. Tell us it's beautiful. I want to try these flavors at this dinner. Let's see if we can make it three by three. The key when eating a dish like this that is made up of so many beautiful and unique complex ingredients is to mix it all together. This is how the dish is intended to be enjoyed Bon appetite You get the butter from the sea bass, the crunch from the panko and the toastiness of the pistachio with the beautiful aioli This dish is a hit and yes, it's three for three palette egrata So this looks beautiful A leaf purée with onion balsamic I know, right?

Tangerine OR apricot OR mango, it's acidic, yes. The fish is actually very delicate. It is flexible. The leek puree is creamy, it is smooth. Everything here is like a bouquet of flowers. Seriously, there are so many different flavors and aromas that play. together so well it's hard to point out what's what? Textures and flavors is a perfect combination, right? It's lovely. Do you want to try my sea bass, I would love it. What are these guys? It looks like a mini zucchini. You have a bit of a pineapple. Oh, this is exceptional, yes, isn't it so beautiful?

Wow. It's like a bouquet of things. Okay, would you like to do better? I love my dish, but your fish is fabulous. You really want to separate. No. You're fine. Enjoy Um Okay, this just happened as usual, we're having this amazing dinner, we're wrapping things up and I met the two loveliest people here at our next table, who? I happen to own a wine and cheese shop in the UK. And the UK is on my list of places to visit. So you know what? That means we're going So I'm Claire And I'm counting and the name of your shop is the cheese and wine shop in Darlington And tell me all about it So it's a lovely little shop and a lovely delicatessen and it sells wine and cheese and we're here researching a little about the wine of the Puglia region.

So we're trying the tiny grape that is, um, the local white wine. Um, it's made here in Barry. Really? Yes, on the way. It's very, very close to here and it's a very green apple. So it tastes like Granny Smith. It's delicious and really crunchy and went really well with our meal tonight, so yes, you have to come visit. She ate white fish. Um, and I ate parks or white meat. It was really very good. Cool So how cool is that? You know, this is a great store when the owners

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to taste the wine in the region where it comes from.

I think that's quite remarkable. We do exactly that and try to sell only local wines. We have been and

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ed, so we think about Christmas. Great, having a little story behind them would mean something to us too. Something we could take home and relive these nights at home. We'll get a bottle from this farm. We'll have a little bit of cheese. Yes, some Italian cheese and some Italian meats and some crustini with almonds. Yes, delicious Yes, it will be nice and then we will sell these kinds of things in our store and we will be able to give our customers great recommendations.

Wow, and it's a pleasure to meet you. Yes it is. Now. What's your um, what's your hashtag or what's your Instagram handle? Instagram is in the cheese and wine cheese wine store. So, onto the wine and cheese shop. Yeah Um, yeah, we'll zoom in on your phone. They don't need to mark. Okay guys, when you were in the UK and you were in Darlington, right, Darlingtown? They have to check it. How special that we are on our way to meet Chef Nicolai Grant. Because dinner. It was so good Look, watch your head Well, this is so special, thank you dinner.

Wow, that's the kitchen. Excellent, really, thank you very much. Then tell me. Um, this is Anna ciao So, tell me about your take on culinary, buddy. Yes, my mission is to meditate in the Mediterranean. And I think this is the perfect place to talk about fish. Yes, I think this is the best quality of En. In polynomial we have the turbo fabulous tonight and the sea bass Excellent throughout dinner. Thank you very much Impeccable, how many people do you have working? Uh, tonight we have six people. Wow, but we normally have 12 30 Wow, this is just amazing.

Now I'll let you go because I know you're probably very busy, right? Can I take some photos? Yes ok. Yes. Thank you That's good too Foreigner Yes Omg this is beautiful, what dish is this? It's Italian with mushrooms in the steam current. Incredible. Are you from Germany where are you from? I'm from But I've lived in Germany for five years. Dinner at grata has been an amazing experience and chef nicola runs a very full kitchen and you can see why the food is carefully selected. It's fresh. It's fantastic. The composition of the dishes is from another world.

From the sea to the table. This is a restaurant that you cannot miss so when you are in Polignano Amare come and experience the palette 0:32:41.360,1193:02:47.295 Para grata