As with all of Italy the food and wine is local and delicious, relying on wonderful, fresh, local ingredients.  There are many small, specialist food shops as well as good, small, family-run alimentari (grocery shops).  Vans with fresh fruit and veg and with fresh fish come to the markets every day and there are good local, Basilicatan wines.

The local speciality is seafood with the best seafood restaurant in the area in our village (they also have meat for the non-fish eaters).  There are several proper pizzerias with wood ovens in easy reach and excellent places in the old town for mountain specialities.

The local cafes have mouth watering arrays of Italian patisseries and home made ice creams and a local speciality is small, very moist biscuits made with almond, walnut or pine nut flour that you buy by the tray.