7 places I recommend
These are the seven restaurants and bakeries in the Puglia Region I have eaten at myself and would recommend.
Where a section has more than one place, they are numbered from my favourite downwards. 
marks the ones not to be missed.
Don't forget you can take the map with you
An osteria on Via Cesare Battisti in central Lecce, cooking the food of the Salento: fresh pasta, pulses, and vegetables alongside the day's fish. One of the best meals I had in Puglia. I actually went twice.
Address: Via Cesare Battisti, 4, 73100 Lecce LE, Italy
An osteria on Via Cattedrale in the white old town of Ostuni, a few steps from the cathedral, cooking Apulian staples.
Address: Via Cattedrale, 8, 72017 Ostuni BR, Italy
An osteria in the old centre of Ostuni, open since 1984 and extended in 1987 into the sixteenth-century cave next door that held the town's communal oven, with a second room in the granary that fed it, cooking Apulian dishes.
Address: Via Gaetano Tanzarella Vitale, 47, 72017 Ostuni BR, Italy
A seafood restaurant on Largo Gelso in Polignano a Mare, a few streets back from the cliffs, serving raw fish, lobster and seafood pasta under a vaulted ceiling. Great place with simple local seafood dishes that are delicious and fresh.
Address: Largo Gelso, 6, 70044 Polignano a Mare BA, Italy
A family trattoria behind the port in Monopoli, in what were the stables of a palazzo, with a dining room barely changed in fifty years and a menu built on the day's catch. The best meal I had in Puglia. Simple seafood dishes cooked very well.
Address: Via Orazio Comes, 1, 70043 Monopoli BA, Italy
The Alberobello branch of Martinucci, a Salento pasticceria that grew out of the marriage of a travelling ice cream maker and a baker's daughter in 1950 and did much to spread the pasticciotto beyond Lecce. Gelato is made on the premises. One of the best gelatos I've had in Italy.
Address: Via Monte S. Michele, 57, 70011 Alberobello BA, Italy
A pasticceria on Via Salvatore Trinchese in Lecce, known for the pasticciotto, the local custard-filled pastry, and for a gelato counter running to about fifty flavours.
Address: Via Salvatore Trinchese, 7, 73100 Lecce LE, Italy
