Bros Restaurant

Bros' is the fine-dining restaurant of the chefs Floriano Pellegrino and Isabella Potì at the Relais Villa San Martino in Martina Franca, Apulia, Italy. It moved there from Lecce, where it had held a Michelin star.

Pellegrino, born in Lecce and raised between Trepuzzi and Scorrano, cooked for Andoni Luis Aduriz and Eneko Atxa in Spain, for Alexandre Gauthier in France, for René Redzepi and for Claude Bosi in London, and says the brigade of Martín Berasategui marked him most. Potì, born in Rome to a Polish mother and a father from Lecce, worked with Bosi too and trained with Paco Torreblanca and Berasategui, at Geranium in Denmark and at Mirazur in Menton. Pellegrino founded Bros' in Lecce in 2016 with Potì as sous chef, the restaurant won its star soon after, and he later received the Prix au Chef de l'Avenir of the Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie.

In Lecce the restaurant was a bright room with glass walls, and its menus took the flavours of Salento and cooked them in unexpected ways. Dishes included a Tropea onion with tapioca and an oil of spring onion, calf sweetbreads with liquorice, and Love Bros, an infusion of cinnamon and ginger served with dessert. The couple closed the Lecce restaurant and in May 2025 reopened Bros' at Villa San Martino, a relais of 21 rooms owned by the Solito family, with Potì as executive chef.

Their trattoria, first opened as Roots near Scorrano, moved at the same time into a trullo beside the villa. It works in a self-sufficient spirit, cooking in a wood-fired oven without a fixed menu and building each day's dishes on the garden and on small local producers. With the trattoria and the fine-dining room side by side, the same produce can appear in two registers, one rustic and one refined, a short walk apart.