produttori — Beura Cardezza · Piemonte
In the Ossola valley, where the Via Sempione climbs through chestnut woods and high pastures toward the Simplon Pass, Macelleria Simonetta has for years been the reference point for selected meats and for the most authentic flavours of a valley that still knows what it means to choose well.
On the marble counter arrive carefully chosen cuts of Piedmontese beef: meat one hundred per cent of the Piemonte breed, selected for quality and yield. Alongside, crates and sacks carry the raw materials of a pantry that embraces the whole local geography — Beura flour, Vercelli rice in cloth sacks, chestnut honey from Vigezzo valley — all under one roof, on Via Sempione.
The processing is artisanal and precise: every cut is prepared by hand, from the stew meat to the salami that customers seek out specifically, even from outside the area, willing to travel for it. The staff — skilled and warm, an expression of a family-run business rooted in the Ossola valley — know every piece of meat and offer advice with the same ease with which they work every day.
On the shelf, the finished products tell of a wide selection: cured meats and salumi, medium-to-high quality cheeses — with the caprino goat cheese fondly remembered by many — and a pantry of local specialities. A range that has turned this butcher's shop into a destination sought out even by those who live far away, willing to travel just to come back.
From the Via Sempione, the largest butcher's shop in the Ossola valley opens its window onto a tradition of quality and territory that deserves to be discovered in person.
