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At Fra Friusch di Revigliasco chef Ugo Fontanone has trained a small group of chefs who now work in relatively well known restaurants (the restaurant has recently opened a second location in corso Moncallieri in Turin.) Returning to the home base to enjoy some traditional dishes paired with some innovative creations is always a pleasurable experience. In fact, you can enjoy both the vitello tonnato prepared in the traditional way and the basil tartrà with burrata and tomato sorbet. There’s no shortage of tajarin with langarolo sauce of chicken livers and sausage, beef plin agnolotti with Alpine butter and donkey meat agnolotti. From their second courses you should try their roasted pigeon with balsamic vinegar and chestnut honey, braised veal cheek, guinea fowl stuffed with cherries and also their blanched prawns on hazelnut cream. Among their desserts you’ll find apple and cognà turnovers, Blu di Capra cheese gelato with pear sorbet. Nice selection of Piedmontese, Italian and a few French wines. 40 euro.

It will be love at first sight with this venue close to Piazza Adriano, which offers a genuine Piedmontese cuisine. The tasting menu, priced at 38 Euros, starts with a vitello tonnato whose meat and capers sauce both convey the soul of this region’s gastronomic tradition, and its typical flavors. Next, agnolotti with roast sauce and a meat and vegetables filling – once common in the countryside. Follows a light fritto misto (fried mix): its salted component boasts chicken and loin Milanese, veal meatballs, brains, testicles and liver; the sweet kick is given by bran, plums, bananas, and amaretto biscuit, among others. With a glass of wine, the price reaches 45 Euros. The a la carte menu offers traditional Piedmontese options, such as tartare, batsoa (pig’s foot), Torino fillet (battered with bread sticks called Grissini, so that it is also known as “Grissinopoli”), Finanziera (a dish loved by Cavour, with offal and giblets). Among the desserts the zabajone is recommended, but the bonet and the crepe suzette also won’t disappoint. The selection of wines is wide, with renowned labels from the whole region, but also bottles by smaller producers. The restaurant joined the Buta Stupa initiative, so you have the option to take the bottle home, if you don’t finish it.

A few steps away from the Gran Madre, in Borgo Po, where a new bunch of restaurants and the arrival of big-shot Canavacciuolo’s bistro have solidified its trendy reputation, this restaurant opened in 1820 is a lifeline for those in search of traditional Piedmontese fare. The menu, as restaurants from times past used to do, has a wide selection of dishes and you’re spoilt for choice among classics such as the “finanziera”, the mixed boiled meats, kidneys with parsley, oil and garlic or the well-known Grissinopoli (the Sabaudian version of the Milanese veal cutlet made with a grissini breading.) No shortage of tajarin, agnolotti and risotti here as well as porcini mushrooms and white Alba truffles when in season. The pasta is homemade and both the cheese and dessert cart offer a wide selection of delicacies to choose from. The wine cellar boasts more than 600 national and international wine labels with a special focus on Piedmontese wines. During the summer you can dine in their outside tables in via Monferrato and during the winter in booked tables inside. A meal will set you back around 40 to 50 euro.

The sign already indicates the speciality of this restaurant, located in the center of Turin. The name, a pun between French and Piedmontese dialect, comes from the expression “amazed” of the Veil Joel (born from the imagination of the patronne Luisa Pandolfi and the creativity of Bob Noto) and the typical veil in tuna sauce, a cult dish that you will always find. A warm and friendly atmosphere, with two dining rooms, one of which located at the cellar level and surronded by about 300 Italian wine labels, mainly the Piedmontese reds. The two chefs Mauro Virdis and Massimiliano Brunetto will offer you dishes of the Piedmontese tradition, sometimes enhancing them in a menù that often changes. Among the appetizers: the already mentioned veal with tuna sauce, the fassone meat tartare, anchovies in green sauce and mountain butter, fritters with bacon and chestnut honey. Among the first courses we mention: the classic agnolotti del Plin, but also the humpbacks ones ( rigorously made by hand and of large sizeable), noodles made with 36 yolks and artichokes or Bra sausage, vegan ravioli in chestnut puff pastry with artichokes and Jerusalem artichokes. The classic second courses with low-temperature and long-lasting cooking. Among the desserts: the mascarpone cream with dark chocolate, semifreddi and Bavarian cream freshly made with seasonal ingredients. The opening hours are from 12.00 to 24.00 pm., from Tuesday to Saturday ( on Sundays only for lunch) with the possibility of eating everytime. The price will always be about 40 euro.

The ideal spot for those who go up to the Basilica of Superga in search of memories of the Savoias and of the Grande Torino football team which met its end on this hill on the 4th May 1949. Trattoria Bel Deuit (dialect expression which means “the good way of doing things”) has an enchanting view of the hills of Turin and offers traditional cuisine. Their menu has a long list of appetizers which change from season to season but you’ll always find the veal with tuna sauce and veal tongue with green sauce. Among the first courses you’ll find the traditional plin agnolotti but also tajarin with a freisa di Chieri wine sauce sauteed in a reduction of the same wine and radicchio. From their second courses you should try the beef braised in Nebbiolo Langhe the Cherasco snails and the mixed fried fish. Among their desserts you’ll find the fresh zabajone with the hazelnut cake, bunet and, when in season, Martin pears cooked in Freisa with cloves and cinnamon. Good selection of Piedmontese wines. A meal will set you back 30 to 40 Euros.