Anthony Marra, Palagiano: 4 Ristoranti Kitchen

Name: Il gusto ha un nome Anthony Marra Restaurant
Address: Via Enrico Fermi, 39, 74019 Palagiano (TA), Palagiano, Puglia, Italy

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Family restaurant · Palagiano, Taranto · Puglia

Il gusto ha un nome — Anthony Marra, Palagiano

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. A note on the location: the restaurant of the programme was in Palagiano. Later listings show a Ristorante & Bistrot Anthony Marra on the country road between Castellana Grotte and Putignano, in the province of Bari, which at least one listing links to 4 Ristoranti; this is probably why the archive long placed this card at Castellana Grotte. We have not been able to confirm that it is the same chef.

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.
Later listings show a Ristorante & Bistrot Anthony Marra at Via Vecchia Putignano 32, Castellana Grotte (BA): not confirmed to be the same chef.

Sources

Mapstr and Restaurant Guru listings — Ristorante & Bistrot Anthony Marra, Via Vecchia Putignano 32, Castellana Grotte (consulted September 2026).
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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Anthony Marra restaurant in Palagiano still open?

Current restaurant listings report the business as closed. We have found no announcement and no date, so we record the fact as it stands: check before travelling.

Where is Il gusto ha un nome – Anthony Marra?

At Via Enrico Fermi 39, Palagiano, in the province of Taranto, about thirty kilometres west of Taranto on the SS106 Ionica. The card was long filed under Castellana Grotte, in the province of Bari, where later listings show a Ristorante & Bistrot Anthony Marra on Via Vecchia Putignano; we have not been able to confirm that it is the same chef.

Was Anthony Marra on 4 Ristoranti?

Yes. The restaurant was one of the four family-run restaurants of the Puglia episode of 4 Ristoranti, broadcast on Sky Uno on 25 March 2015 with Alessandro Borghese. The archive entry records La Farmacia dei Sani at Ruffano as the winner of that episode.

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