Ristorante Grotta Palazzese – The restaurant with one of the world’s most breathtaking views.

What could be more romantic than a candlelit dinner by the sea? Dinner by candlelight in a grotto restaurant carved into the Italian seaside. Grotta Palazzese hotel restaurant is located in the Southern Italian town of Polignano a Mare in a vaulted limestone cave. You’re not only dining in a cave, but you can also take in the views of the Adriatic Sea and the seaside’s vertical cliffs.

The area had been inhabited since the Neolithic period and was once home to a Greek colony. The restaurant itself may have been in use since the 1700s, when local nobility gathered there to do essentially the same thing we’d like to do there today. They, too, could afford it!