A twenty-cover family restaurant on the Ionian plain of the province of Taranto, named after the chef who runs it. It reached a national audience in March 2015, as one of the four family-run restaurants of the Puglia episode of 4 Ristoranti. This card has been corrected: for years it was filed under Castellana Grotte, in the province of Bari, thirty-five kilometres away and in another province. The restaurant is in Palagiano, as the archive text said all along.
At a glance
- Type
- Family-run restaurant, about twenty covers
- Where
- Via Enrico Fermi 39, 74019 Palagiano, Province of Taranto, Puglia
- Coordinates
- 40.5800° N, 17.0455° E
- Status
- Current listings report the business as closed; we have found no date
- On television
- 4 Ristoranti, Sky Uno, 25 March 2015 — family-run restaurants of Puglia
Overview
Palagiano lies on the coastal plain between Taranto and the first rise of the Murge, in the belt of irrigated orchards that runs along the Ionian arc. The restaurant stood away from the historic centre, on via Enrico Fermi, and was a small house: about twenty covers, a plainly classical dining room and a menu its own chef described as ambitious.
History
Anthony Marra gave the restaurant his own name, and it was under that name that it took part in the fourth episode of the first season of 4 Ristoranti, broadcast on Sky Uno on 25 March 2015 and given over to the best family-run restaurant in Puglia. The other three were the Torre di Angelucco at Martina Franca, in the same province, the Locanda del fu Giovanni in the Salento and La Farmacia dei Sani at Ruffano, in the province of Lecce, which the Cultural Heritage Online archive entry records as the winner. The programme is 4 Ristoranti, in which the chef Alessandro Borghese has four restaurants of the same kind judge one another on premises, menu, service and bill before he casts the deciding vote.
Current restaurant listings mark the business as closed. No announcement or date has been found, so this card records the fact without dressing it up.
What you see
A small dining room of about twenty covers with classical fittings, on a street of the modern part of Palagiano rather than in the old centre.
Practical information
- Current listings report the restaurant as closed: check before travelling.
- Palagiano is about thirty kilometres west of Taranto, on the SS106 Ionica.
Sources
- Sky TG24, 23 March 2015 — In Puglia, Alessandro Borghese cucina in famiglia (the four competing restaurants and their towns).
- OpenStreetMap / Nominatim — via Enrico Fermi, Palagiano (TA), for the address and the coordinates.
- Cultural Heritage Online historical archive — original Italian entry on beniculturalionline.it, verified and rewritten in August 2026.
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