A butcher’s shop at Acqualagna, in the Marche truffle country, that grew a dining room next door where the customer picks the cut and watches it cook on the hearth.
At a glance
- Type
- Butcher’s shop with grill room
- Cuisine
- Meat and cured meats of the Marche
- Where
- Acqualagna, Province of Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy
- Coordinates
- 43.616751° N, 12.6714481° E
- On television
- 4 Ristoranti, fourth series (2018), seventh episode
Overview
The Antica Macelleria Sorcinelli is at Acqualagna, in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, in the Marche. It is run by Alessandro Foglietta, known as el Foia, a butcher by vocation and a traditionalist by temperament.
The shop grew into a small restaurant: in the room next door the customer chooses the cut of meat or the cured meats and eats them there, in front of the hearth on which the meat is cooked.
History
The house sets out its policy plainly in the archive entry: high quality of product and careful sourcing of raw materials, in the tradition of the Marche.
The osteria took part in the fourth series of 4 Ristoranti, broadcast in 2018, in the seventh episode: the contest for the best truffle restaurant of Acqualagna, against Osteria da Doddo, Enosteria and Gioconda. The episode was won by Gioconda.
The programme 4 Ristoranti, led by the chef Alessandro Borghese, sets four restaurants of the same area against one another; each host eats at the others and marks them.
What you see
Acqualagna, at the mouth of the Furlo gorge, is one of the capitals of the Italian truffle trade, and holds its fair each autumn: that is why the episode was set here.
Practical information
- Address: Via G. Marconi 18, 61041 Acqualagna (PU), Marche.
- Opening days vary; booking is advisable.
Sources
- Cultural Heritage Online historical archive — original Italian entry (beniculturalionline.it), transposed and corrected 2026.
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