The Taste of Bari 🇮🇹 Food Tour | Road Trip To Monopoli

Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another episode. I have just arrived in Bari, the capital of the Puglia region of Italy. It is very famous for focaccia, all kinds of fresh seafood and a very special dish that is called spaghetti all'assassina. Fasten your seatbelts, let's start today's food tour that I will be calling the taste of Bari. Let's go! Immediately I'm loving the vibe here, very positive energy, people are all out in the streets, beautiful. Nice, nice, that's what I meant. I love the vibe here, very positive energy and I can't wait to eat my way through this beautiful city. We have arrived. Behind me is the birthplace of the assassin's pasta called spaghetti all'assassina. I am so excited to try this one. The restaurant is called al sorso preferito. Let's head straight inside. We are seated and it looks beautiful, kind of historic I would say. All right ladies and gentlemen, our assassin's pasta arrived and look at this beauty right here. It looks and smells incredible. Some of the spaghetti pasta is even almost burned. Immediately I want to try some of this burned part here. Look at this. There are some tomato and I think some chili flakes here visible. I really really hope this one is spicy. This is the first bite of our food tour here in Bari. The taste of Bari begins right here ladies and gentlemen, so buon appetito. Incredible first bite, very very crunchy. I didn't expect this but the spice level is on point. Some background to the history of this dish. Why is it called spaghetti all'assassina? In the 1960s two gentlemen came into this restaurant and they asked for some spicy spaghetti. Now the question is why is this pasta so crispy? The spaghetti is cooked directly in the pan with tomato sauce until parts become charred and crispy. Paired with the chili peppers it adds to the spicy note. When the chef served this dish the two gentlemen called him assassin. They said hey chef are you trying to murder us with this dish. That was when the spaghetti all'assassina was born. Burning of the pasta is purely intentional. With this you have some kind of caramelization going on. It's incredibly addicting. You can imagine this like a combination between spaghetti, fried noodles, like a very addicting spicy note to it. The flavor is still infused in the pasta itself and the tomato sauce. So the caramelization note you taste it in every single bite. We have now one of the last bites here. Incredibly delicious. After this bite we have one more thing to do because we have here some bread. The bread is now infused with the spicy notes here. Almost every table is ordering the spaghetti all'assassina. That is the call here. I mean it's the birthplace of this dish. You have to try this out when you come to Bari. As you can see in the background we are now moving into the evening hours. The whole white pier gets more energetic and I'm still hungry. Again we will be sticking to the specialties of Bari. Next stop will be hopefully good focaccia because I really really want to try this. We just entered the store and let me tell you something. It smells incredibly delicious here. I can't wait to try their focaccia. We have our order here packed inside this big bag. It feels already heavy and warm at the same time. Let's unbox this beauty. And there we have it. It is very shiny, hot and the bottom is incredibly crispy already from just holding it. Let me take a quick bite right here immediately. Let's go. Buon appetito. Incredibly crunchy bottom here. Very airy dough, oily with topped with tomato. Let's take another bite. Incredibly oily but also very very delicious. Oh my god listen to the crunch. Incredibly delicious focaccia here and again another beautiful bite in Bari. Let's head outside and continue our food tour. I never could have imagined that focaccia can be so crispy and juicy at the same time. This one was super oily but well worth it. Every single bite had a beautiful crunch to it. The flavors coming from the tomato and the herbs extremely delicious. I can highly recommend you this spot. Check this one out when you're here in Bari. The later we get into the evening the more power and energy the city gets. Everyone is outside and it's an incredible atmosphere. And now ladies and gentlemen we are heading inside the old town of Bari. Our food tour here through the night of Bari continues. Deep in the old town we will be having our next snack. Something very famous, something very popular here. It is a sandwich with octopus inside. It looks incredibly fresh and delicious. Something totally different. Again we stick to the local cuisine so we have to get this kind of sandwich here as a late night snack. We have our octopus sandwich right here. It's filled to the brim. Look at this. We ordered this with some extra stracciatella cheese here. It's heavy, it's hot. I can't wait to try this one. Let's take the first bite. Already the bread is very very crunchy just from holding it. I want to take a bite right here. Let's go. Bon Appetit. The octopus is beautifully grilled. A little bit crispy. It tastes incredibly fresh especially with the lemon. It looks very plain but there is a lot going on here. You have crispy bread, crunchy salad, grilled also slightly crispy octopus, the milky cheese flavor. Now I prepared here the perfect bite with a combination of everything. Let's go. Incredibly delicious. Oh my god. I never had tentacles sticking out of my sandwich but let me tell you something. It feels like the seafood version of the döner kebab. It's a very different kind of food tour tonight and I'm enjoying every single bite of it. And we continue our food tour here through the old town and I have to say one thing now. After these savory bites I'm craving something sweet. I really really want to try the gelato of this city. It looks like we are not the only ones craving for ice cream. This place is filled with people. Everybody is lining up but I've also been told that this is the best gelato in all of Bari. As our first sweet bite here I think it's a good opportunity to take some time and wait. There are even two queues. We just made our order. Now we have a number and we have to wait again. I have a good feeling they have not too many flavors. That is already a good sign. They are focused on the quality over the quantity. Ladies and gentlemen we secured finally our beautiful cup of gelato. The two flavors the recommended were vanilla with lemon zest and the almond flavor. The combination itself sounds already very interesting. It fits to our first food tour here in Bari because every single bite was unique. The most famous gelato in all of Bari it's called Gelateria Gentile. Okay this one was vanilla with lemon zest. It reminds me of my childhood a little bit because there was some kind of vanilla ice cream in a cone with lemon flavor. Incredibly milky. This combination is sweet milky but fresh also at the same time. And let me also try the almond flavor. Okay like the Gelateria name very gentle I would describe it. It tastes like silky smooth and an incredible finisher for tonight. One thing is for sure we have to come back to this Gelateria. We have to try some more. They had like pistachio and chocolate flavors as well. It's a perfect finisher for tonight's first food tour here in Bari. I never inhaled gelato so fast in my life like this. It was incredibly delicious and the wait was well worth it. We will be coming back to this Gelateria to try out more variations that's for sure. With this we are coming to an end of today's food tour. This was the Taste of Bari episode one. You heard it right there will be another episode coming from this beautiful city. This is only the first night so there are some more days I will be spending here. I have some great food spots on my list. As always I will be taking you with me. So subscribe to the channel to not miss out the next episode. There is one more thing I can tell you already. We will be starting a road trip through the whole Puglia region. Taking a look at the very local specialties of the neighboring cities and villages. But for now that's it from my side. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Thank you for watching ladies and gentlemen. As always it's your trusty hungry vagabond signing out. I wish you also a wonderful good night and see you next time. Ciao ciao!