From Matera Cathedral to the heart of the Sasso Barisano is a multi-sensory experience in itself. Here you walk down one of the busiest streets in the city of stones, where tourists are spoilt for choice. There is, however, one who tries to stand out, right from the name on the sign with Neapolitan echoes. It is the Oi Marì Restaurantwhose owners have been strictly dividing their tasks for 20 years.
Maria Cotugno welcomes guests, Luca Mangiapia deals with oenological selection, and Sara Cotugno ventures into the kitchen with one eye on tradition and another on modernity, and without neglecting the needs of the many foreign customers. And the pizza? There is that too, and it is very well made. The premises are among the most beautiful in the Capital of Culture 2019. Halls, rooms and corridors carved into the rock, removed from time and space, from the millennia and karst materials that dominate this border land between Basilicata and Apulia.
La winery is truly impressive, evocative, for the beauty it radiates alone it deserves an award. The cleverly placed lights multiply the charm of the caves. The culinary solutions rework different regional cultures, an example of which is the delicate risotto with Murgia herbs with lamb and smoked eelwhich precedes the exquisite ravioli stuffed with peas with pecorino mousse and genovese di manzo podolicoas well as the succulent lamb loin in red wine and plums.
