Restaurant
Punta Bianca
A unique gastronomic experience featuring excellent ingredients from land and sea, expertly blending innovation and tradition.
Local and national wines complement each dish prepared by the Chef, for unforgettable moments of authentic flavour and passion.
Our story - The origins
Punta Bianca Restaurant
Opening Hours
Monday / Sunday 07:30 PM – 12:00 AM
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History of Punta Bianca
On the left: puteca of “Tore ‘i Caramella”, Clorinda’s building, puteca of “Teresa ’i Biasiello”, Bafarone’s puteca.
On the right: puteca of “Mastu Paolo Laddomada”, Tagliamonte house with Maria sweeping at the doorstep
In the last century, Punta Bianca on Ponza was merely a functional passageway, divided between fishing, commerce, and housing. Tourism has radically transformed this division, making it today the island's main outdoor dining area.
Ponza Island - Prince of Naples Street
Punta Bianca in an 1847 drawing by Pasquale Mattei; on the right, the Chapel of the Holy Cross
The current Punta Bianca Restaurant is located inside Palazzo Tagliamonte, which was built between 1857 and 1862 as part of a public works program commissioned by Ferdinand II of Bourbon.
This story is told by Antonio Coppa, known as Tony "i Caramella" or Tony Quindici (father of current restaurateurs Salvatore and Flavio).
Tony Coppa writes:
"This building, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, is located on the main street of the Port of Ponza, in the area known as "A Ponta Ianca" (the White Point). During the Fascist period and until 1945, it was the seat of the Municipality of Ponza."
Ponza-The quay and Piazza Pisacane
Parade in front of City Hall
In this building, home to the Town Hall, in a room on the first floor, the weddings of the confined were celebrated. Here Giorgio Amendola married his wife Germaine; in his book Un'isola, he writes:
“The day of the ceremony arrived, July 10, 1934. We had chosen as witnesses the two comrades who were part of my party group. I didn't want to make a personal choice, which could have created jealousy or highlighted my individual preferences. Moreover, they were two fellow workers, Sella from Schio and Tominez from Muggia. I had kept the wedding date a secret to avoid curiosity. We arrived at the Town Hall with our jackets in our bags, to go unnoticed. Everything happened quickly. We got out humming the national anthem and stopped for an aperitif. For us, it was an unimportant ceremony. Our commitment had already been made a long time ago.”
After the war, the Town Hall changed location; a few years later, Salvatore Coppa, Tony's father, moved to Palazzo Tagliamonte.
Salvatore Coppa was born in Ponza in 1912. A cabinetmaker by trade, he learned the trade as an apprentice in the carpentry shop on Via Corridoio run by the Tricoli family, whose sons Giovanni and Umberto he was friends with. (From Tony's notes)
When a film is shown at the "Primo" cinema, adjacent to the carpentry shop, Salvatore sits in the front row, imitating Minicuccio Voccastorta, who, during intermission, wanders among the audience with his shopping bag and shouts, "Who wants to have fun? Nucelline, dolci." Salvatore echoes him: "Camelle, dolci"; after a while, the town nicknames him “Tore Caramella”.
In 1953, Salvatore Coppa opened a carpentry shop in Ponza, in Palazzo Tagliamonte. In 1961, he emigrated with his family to New York for economic reasons, specializing in a large furniture factory. (From Tony's notes).
In 1966, fourteen-year-old Tony returned from the United States, bringing with him a few iconic objects, including a T-shirt with the number 15. Because of that piece of clothing, the entire town nicknamed him "Fifteen," a nickname he would retain as an adult, serving as a municipal employee.
From 1968, the premises were used by Salvatore's son, Tony Coppa, who created a youth club there, the Gewgaw Club (Bagattella Club), where afternoons were spent playing ping pong, billiards, checkers, and chess, listening to and playing rock music (from Tony's notes).
Antonio Coppa - Tony (1952-2022)
Regular patrons of the Bagattella Club: Peppe Coppa (of Adalgiso), Mariano Picicco, Giuseppe Tricoli the Baron, Luciano Farese
It was also the net storage by the owners of the M/P “Pola”, as family relatives.
M/P Pola
In 1972 Salvatore Coppa returned for good from New York, restarted the carpentry shop, bringing in modern tools and new techniques for woodworking. With the reopening of the shop, the rock music coming from the loft and the sound of plane and electric saw on the ground floor blended into a real psychedelic music (from Tony’s notes).
Tony fell in love with Lucia Mazzella at the Bagattella Club and married her in 1979. In 1981, Salvatore Coppa died, and Tony and Lucia's first child, Salvatore Jr., was born. Their second son, Flavio, was born in 1983.
In the now-abandoned carpentry shop, Lucia opened the "Rada" clothing store in partnership with Anna Maggi of Rome.
The Coppa brothers grew up playing among the old fishing gear and lumber in the back area of the club, which was purposely left unrenovated and separate from the commercial area. As adults, they entered the restaurant industry... they worked their way up, starting from scratch as simple employees, facing the sacrifices and hardships of hard work. The responsibilities, difficulties, and successes achieved in the field represented their true personal and professional development. (from Tony's notes)
Finally, in the summer of 2020, Flavio and Salvatore realized their dream and opened their own restaurant on July 23, 2020, in their grandfather's former carpentry shop, "Tore 'i Caramella," later known as "Bagattella Club" for their father Tony, and later as their mother Lucia's "La Rada" boutique: the "PUNTA BIANCA" restaurant.
Flavio and Salvatore Coppa
Dining room manager and Chef