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Ristorante Carignano - Torino

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The Carignano Restaurant is located in Turin in the prestigious Grand Hotel Sitea , right in the centre, a few steps from the Egyptian Museum and Piazza Castello. Thanks to the winning combination of 2 chefs such as Fabrizio Tesse and Marco Miglioli, longtime collaborators, in 2019 the restaurant was awarded the Michelin Star. The interiors are those of a cozy room, with warm parquet floors, walls with light-colored boiserie decorated with modern works and a few tables, large and very well spaced. Ristorante Carignano belongs to that category of gastronomic hotel restaurants that finally in Italy have been freed from that patina of "aurea mediocritas" in which they had been enclosed for decades. Those who still think that in a hotel it is not possible to live memorable gastronomic experiences, will have to change their mind: the cuisine of Fabrizio Tesse and Marco Miglioli is exciting and stimulating. Thanks to a very well conceived menu, based on a strict selection of ...

La Cloche 1967 - Torino

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The restaurant La Cloche 1967 is a very well known restaurant in Turin since 1967 when Nino Bello and his wife Rosa opened a small restaurant with about twenty seats, on the slopes of the hillside. The Cloche, whose name was suggested by his friend Armando Testa, soon turned out to be a winning bet, a reminder of the times, with the flavours of his native Monferrato, which was just a few minutes from the centre of the Piedmontese capital. Preceded by a corner with a collection of the most representative photographs of the history of La Cloche, with the countless famous people who have visited it, the main room has large windows overlooking the green hill, an impressive sloping wooden roof and walls in warm colors. La Cloche 1967 Restaurant, reopened in 2017 after a long closure, then held back by some turnover at the stoves, is now presented as an address of great suggestion, both for the beautiful location and for the valid proposal of cuisine. The very young Chef Alessandro Bon...