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Gourmet guide in the center of Turin – Italian Cuisine

After San Salvario, here is the second greedy neighborhood guide. Today we are going to taste the center of Turin

The second appointment with the Neighborhood Guides in the city of Turin the center of the city is the protagonist, with a selection of more or less known or famous addresses, including Agnolotti, Bao-Zi and Vitello tonnato.

Best veal with tuna sauce

Where to eat it

Pharmacy of Change
A very traditional version is good at La Farmacia del Cambio. The meat is first scalded and then cooked at low temperature. To make the tuna sauce capers, anchovies and tuna are blended and then a small percentage of mayonnaise is added. All to compose a truly unique dish, which you can taste in the historic place of Piazza Carignano or inside the Central Market of Turin, where La Farmacia del Cambio has recently inaugurated its second sales point.

Sorij, via Matteo Pescatore 10
Over the years the Sorij vitello tonnato recipe has undergone minor changes, but it remains delicious. With the arrival of the new chef Andrea Fasano, the already good version of Sorij has been slightly modified: low-temperature vacuum cooking, traditional tuna sauce and drops of celery and carrot and crispy wafer.

Where to buy it, delis

Baudracco, corso Vittorio Emanuele II 62, a delicious tradition for more than 50 years serving customers. A stone's throw from Porta Nuova, right in the center, you can enter this temple of taste and choose what you like best. Every week a new menu, between tradition and creative dishes, the vitello tonnato is obviously one of the dishes always in paper. Don't miss the tasting of bagna cauda with pan-fried eggs, green anchovies and a real paradise of cheeses, from Baudracco they select fabulous directly from the Piedmontese margari.

Best gianduiotto

La Bottega Guido Gobino, via Lagrange 1
For 10 years one of Turin's favorite shops to buy gianduiotti. Gobino gianduiotti are produced with the extrusion method, which allows the creation of each chocolate without the use of molds, typical of the ancient Turin chocolate-making tradition. Have you ever tasted the Tourinot?

Best ice cream

Alberto Marchetti, corso Vittorio Emanuele II 24, via Po 35 bis; or Casa Marchetti, Square CLN 248
He is considered one of the masters of Italian ice cream, not only of the Turin one: selection of maniacal raw materials, continuous research, an avant-garde laboratory in the CLN square, his home, as Marchetti likes to call it, where it is possible to watch the production ice cream and take part in one of his courses, always very popular. He is also present in the brand new space of the Mercato Centrale Torino, in Porta Palazzo. We leave you the joy of enjoying one of his fabulous ice creams.

Best agnolotto

Where to eat it

Consorzio Restaurant via Monte di Pietà 23
One of the best tables of the city and perhaps of Italy the one of the Consortium. A 100% Piedmontese tasting menu for € 35 and in paper the agnolotto Gobbo for € 13. In the Hunchback, as it is affectionately called, the filling is usually prepared with roast veal, pork, rabbit, pure pork sausage, endive and fresh eggs in addition to spices and flavorings. To taste them, tradition recommends roasted sauce or just grated Parmesan cheese to not cover the delicate flavor of the filling. The Hunchback of the Consorzio Restaurant deserves a detour, like many other dishes, including the Grive di pig or crunchy Anchovies.

Where to buy it, delis

Bruzzone brothers, via Maria Vittoria 34
The Bruzzone brothers produce fresh pasta in the laboratory / shop in Via Maria Vittoria. It is possible to buy different formats of fresh pasta including traditional agnolotti prepared with stone-ground flour: a super-tried recipe, that of the great-grandmother Maria, who decreed that the Bruzzone Brothers agnolotti are among the best in the city. It will be possible to buy them to cook them at home or, if you take an irrepressible desire to taste them, taste them on the spot.
The recipe, as we said, is family and includes three types of roast in the filling, nutmeg, 24 month Parmigiano Reggiano Dop.

Best Chinese dumpling / BAO ZI

Mu Bao, via the Academy of Sciences 2E
Greedy Cantonese street food in the center of Turin, opened in December 2018 by Suili Zhou and his brother Bin. Excellent Bao, the steamed buns filled with meat or vegetables, prepared in the best Chinese tradition, which gives a nod to the small stalls of street food in the middle of Hong Kong. The place is really tiny (only 5 places!) We recommend you order the bao-zi and the braised ravioli (or steamed) and enjoy them comfortably seated in your dining room or on the sofa, devouring TV series. To taste the Black Char Siu Bao, a sandwich made with charcoal and stuffed with caramelised organic pork, Peking Bao with Peking duck or, for dessert, Bao with cream, filled with duck egg custard.

Where to buy the best coffee

Costadoro Diamante with an interesting selection of specialty coffee and single origin coffee from all over the world. In their corner inside the Diamante, the Costadoro Social Coffee, as well as buying your favorite coffee, you can also taste the coffee prepared with different extraction methods: from espresso to V60, from French Press to American coffee.

The rebirth of Porta Palazzo: Turin Central Market, Gallina Fish Shop and Resale 2 – Italian Cuisine

Lots of new openings in Turin. Today we tell you what is happening in the Porta Palazzo neighborhood, a source of ideas and social inclusion and a new food and wine district.

The ferment for the new city openings does not stop. Rather. Turin has never been as gastronomically active as in recent months. The city is literally exploding with events for the inauguration of new restaurants, bistros and cafes. New life and new beautiful projects are coming to light in these days.
Today we will discover three new realities, including the opening of the Central Market Turin of Saturday 13 April.

Central Market comes from an idea by Umberto Montano and the Cardini-Vannucchi family and follows the previous openings in Florence, in 2014 in the historic market of San Lorenzo and Rome in 2016, inside the Termini Station. In Turin, Porta Palazzo, the home of the largest outdoor market in Europe, comes to life in an area that is the cradle of urban multiculturalism. In fact it is located just a few meters from the Market and with the market shares this majestic and beautiful square. The project is part of the new redevelopment of the Porta palazzo district, where other young entrepreneurs are investing money and resources.
For the Central Market the economic investment was important, 6 million euros and 6 months of work, inside 26 artisan shops, a mill, a didactic area and a roasting. A complete schedule of events until the end of 2019, which has around 350.

The social aggregation, the inclusion, are at the base of the Central Market project, which does not want to be just a place to go to eat or do the shopping, but which wants to become the new cultural pole of the city, like a big square of market where everyone gets together, meet, talk in all languages.
Upon entering we are greeted by an unmistakable aroma, that of freshly baked bread, thanks to Raffaele D’Errico and the bread of Porta Palazzo, prepared with Viva La Farina flour and where it will be possible to select the blend to prepare a unique bread.
Continuing the tour we discover the Cheeses of Beppino Occelli, which will also follow the Educational Cheese Workshop (open from May with the Lorenzo de 'Medici Cooking School led by Carla and Fabrizio Guarducci and the didactic Roasting by Franco Mondi).
Alberto Marchetti's award-winning ice creams, Stefano Callegari's Trapizzino with traditional Roman recipes, we choose one of all, the delicious chicken cacciatore. I Maestri di Cucina with Davide Scabin and his Carbone Bianco and exclusive cooking made with charcoal for meat, eggs, vegetables and soups. The Pharmacy of the Change, with the direction of Matteo Baronetto and the traditional Piedmontese dishes, Marcello Trentini (Magorabin) in a healthy version with the Green Fairy, a brand new 100% Green format, including fruit and vegetable extracts and a delicious vegetarian menu.
Then the proposals by Savini Tartufi, the chianina burger by Enrico lagorio, the Girarrosto with free-range chickens by Alessandro Baronti, the fresh Piedmontese pasta by Egidio Michelis and the Cortilia experiment, the online agricultural market that for the first time proposes a physical store.
There are many gastronomic experiences to do and, as they say at the Mercato Centrale Torino, there is no taste to tell it. Come, see and taste.
Mercato Centrale Torino, open 364 days a year, from 8am to midnight

Fish market Gallina patron Beppe Gallina
He was among the first to believe in this neighborhood, when he decided to invest in a new fish counter, his historian Banco No. 2 at the Porta Palazzo Fish Market (which boasts a century-long history, since 1920, four generations of fishmongers) moved from the fish market to a new place right next to the farmers' market, beyond the square, inserting a small bistro dedicated to fish cuisine, cooking with the catch of the day inside the fish market. Now Beppe Gallina doubles and hits the mark, with the new evening opening in a larger room, next to the Pescheria, which replicates the lucky one lunch package at € 15 all inclusive, without reservation. To be able to sit at the Pescheria Gallina table (do not call it a restaurant!) You will have to be armed with a lot of patience and stand in line to be able to grab a table, both for lunch (in the fish shop) and for dinner, in the new one just next to. In practice, the fish market is doubled, with a soul day and night. To satisfy all the greedy ones. Always open, except on Wednesdays for dinner, to allow the kitchen brigade to set up the room and the line and take a breath of air. We advise you not to miss out on a taste of the kitchen of the Pescheria (the mixed fried fish is fabulous), because it is always a nice meal.
In the Bistrot of Beppe Gallina, from April 1st, plastic bottles are banned. Water on tap is offered to all customers, to market workers and to those who go to Porta Palazzo to do the shopping. The revolutions start from the bottom and we hope that many will take the initiative of Gallina to change mentality and fight the use of plastic in restaurants.
Fish market Gallina
piazza della Repubblica, 14b – Turin

Resale 2 of the Republic and similar times
Davide Pinto, after Affini in San Salvario, one of the most loved and well-known venues for fine cocktails and quality tapas, inaugurates Resale 2 in Piazza della Repubblica No. 3, in the clubs that saw the birth of the Central coffee in 1926.
Porta Palazzo is reborn, changes its face focusing on hospitality and food, Rivendita 2 opens in that portion of the square that is reminiscent of Paris and its small cafes, bistros, zinc tables and Pastis glasses. The Resale offer starts early in the morning, at 6.30 am with breakfast, in collaboration with Gocce di Cioccolato, a well-known Turin roaster, which personally selects the microlots of single origin coffee between Honduras and Brazil. The lunch break (like all the gastronomic offer) is entrusted to the expert hands of Yari Sity, Affini chef, who will be inspired by the market stalls, including sweet and savory dishes, vegetarian and omnivorous. For a 360 ° taste experience that crosses the whole world, with multi-ethnic contaminations also in the kitchen. After breakfast and lunch, continue with the afternoon snack and pre dinner cocktails. The suppliers of the Resale have been chosen among the Masters of Taste of Turin, which selects the excellence in the area.
Davide Pinto has decided to say no to plastic: to resell no crockery, straws or plastic cups, but only 100% biodegradable products, to minimize the environmental impact.

A selection of the best Chinese restaurants in Turin – Italian Cuisine

If you want Chinese cuisine and you are in Turin, we leave you a small handbook to consult on the fly from your smartphone!

Very often, if you are in a foreign city, you are hungry and you don't know any place, you can just look for a Chinese restaurant to let you pass.
In Turin you will have much more than a Chinese restaurant to make tasteful experiences, creative or traditional. But always of excellent quality.

Here's where to go

Zheng Yang via Principi D’Acaja 61
It is among the first Chinese restaurants that have opened in Turin. The Ling family inaugurated the first restaurant (in Corso Racconigi) in 1981 and Zheng Yang in 1986.
Making a quick calculation the Ling family, with Piero, Silvia and Paola, have been delighting the palates of the Turinese for about 38 years. Not a few. Super attentive to the ingredients, to the preparation of dishes, ancient recipes interpreted in a modern key. The beauty of Zheng Yang is that when you return to taste Silvia's cuisine you have the opportunity to taste new dishes, alongside the traditional ones. Rice noodles with fermented rice and vegetables, shrimp and lemongrass skewers, shrimp fritters in spicy sauce, braised ravioli with spiced pork and lemongrass-flavored ravioli. And we could go on and on with combinations from the menu. For dessert don't forget to order the black sesame cream pancakes. Be careful because they create a serious addiction.

The Great Wall corso Emilia 2
Like the trattoria Mei Shi Mei Ke, the Great Wall is also frequented by Chinese. It was discovered by the inhabitants of Turin a few years ago when they began to come to eat the typical Chinese cuisine, with some more extreme dishes, such as chicken, duck, chicken, pork and beef offal. We have known them for their fabulous tagliatelle in broth with beef, the inevitable braised ravioli (among the best eaten in the city). Mention for the smoked duck and spicy snails.

Oh Crispa! Via Belfiore 16 / bis
Tina Dai entered the heart of Turin. Here they come for Chinese crêpes, fragrant and very fragrant (unique, with truly original ingredients), for ravioli stuffed with broth and for crystal ones, stuffed with vegetables or prawns depending on the recipe proposed. In the heart of San Salvario "Oh Crispa!" Has conquered everyone, young and old. It's easy to pass by here and find the queue outside. Do not miss the noodles in broth with meat and vegetables. Delicious is an understatement.

Mei Shi Mei Ke, Via Cibrario 3
An authentic Chinese trattoria, frequented mostly by Chinese. Upon entering you are catapulted into Beijing and in fact here you come to taste Lu ravioli, whether steamed or braised. Very special. Simple environment, but excellent Chinese cuisine.

Gastronomy Chinese cuisine via Madama Cristina 113 / E
A small window, which is hardly noticeable at the passage. But often to make good discoveries we must venture, overcome indifference and taste. We liked this small gastronomy very much, not too many paper dishes, but really well cooked, some original and never tasted like steamed garlic bread, super soft and tasty, a portion is enough for 2-3 people.
For those with extreme tastes and loves offal to taste the ears of pork in soy sauce, salad of veal and coriander nerves. Then a whole series of Baozi stuffed with pork or veal and vegetables.