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La Ciau del Tornavento, a true institution of Piedmontese haute cuisine, is based in Treiso in the building that housed the town's nursery school, a typical lictorian-style building from 1931 overlooking the splendid panorama of the Langa hills. The building next to it houses four beautiful rooms available to customers who intend to enjoy this Maison of great cuisine for longer. The restaurant is discreet, elegant and well-finished from the outside. Just in front of the living room opens the large and elegant dining room, which overlooks the hills in front with spectacular windows; tastefully furnished, it has fine hardwood floors, a modern design fireplace and large well-spaced tables. The environment is classy, relaxing and pleasant. We have known La Ciau del Tornavento since the distant times when the headquarters were in San Secondo di Pinerolo; since then Maurilio Garola has come a long way that has brought him to the top today. Today La Ciau del Tornavento undoubtedly b...

Campamac, Osteria Gourmet, is the modern gastronomic tavern opened in Barbaresco by Maurilio Garola, Chef of La Ciau del Tornavento, in partnership with Paolo Dalla Mora, a manager from Friuli with experience in large multinationals. His name is an expression in Piedmontese dialect, used as an encouragement, which means "get in there" As soon as you enter you will realize how much the definition of Osteria fits a little narrow to a place that stands out for a high-class interior design signed by the architect Fabio Ferrillo. The entrance with inlaid floors of black and white marble houses a small cocktail bar which is also a shop selling local products of excellence (all strictly zero-kilometer) that are served at the table. To the side and front, the two spectacular open kitchens. The restaurant, which in name is an Osteria (gourmet ...) due to the easy formula, but is in fact a gastronomic restaurant with all the trimmings, boasts a remarkable interior design and an o...

Volli Restaurant is based in Asti in the ancient Palazzo Catena dating back to the Middle Ages. The restaurant, as the name suggests in Italian language, was strongly desired by Chef Marco Toso, who was eager to open his own place after a professional career made up of numerous high-level experiences. The interiors are evocative and fascinating, of great character, with iron slab floors, portions of the ancient walls and magnificent vaults with exposed bricks, combined with modern furnishing elements combined with taste and refinement. On its website, Volli Restaurant describes its cuisine in a fitting way: "Tastes of yesterday, revisited in a modern and innovative way". We can only add that Marco Toso has a good hand, very specific ideas and a lot of sincere passion. The environment is exceptional, the cuisine full of ideas and suggestions, the attentive and attentive service. Do you want to post your comment? Make yourself the Critic on the Blog! Post your commen...

Salsedine is the new Turin adventure of Remo Presenza, historical patron of Mare Nostrum, who returns to the Piedmontese capital with an excellent fish restaurant after a long period in Abruzzo. The restaurant is located in the historic center, a stone's throw from the Porta Palazzo market square. The interiors are extremely personal, with grit floors antiqued with dark wax, wooden and vaulted ceilings, with hanging pots, paintings turned upside down and repainted on that side, sound-absorbing panels decorated with marine motifs, portions of the wall with plaster deliberately crumbled... Salsedine stands out for its unmissable, rich, stimulating, cultured and refined gourmet seafood cuisine in an environment with a strong personality. It will not take long to ascertain that Remo Presenza is animated by an irrepressible, contagious passion, first with the rite of command, then with the arrival on the table of a succession of dishes capable of astonishing. There is a pushed, al...

The Langhe and the Monforte d'Alba district have recently been enriched with a new cuisine of great interest: the Gennaro Di Pace restaurant is located in Perno, a tiny village with a castle perched high up in a very panoramic position. A nice place, wanted by Gregorio Gitti, owner of the castle and producer of excellent wines, who convinced Gennaro to leave his Saracena, in the province of Cosenza to reach the hills of Barolo​. The interiors are developed on a single rectangular room, furnished in a minimal style with some bold touches of color, which hosts contemporary works of art in rotation. A young and talented chef, Gennaro Di Pace has brought a breath of fresh air to the Langa by operating a personal kitchen, with interesting ideas and intelligent references to his land of origin. His menu is composed correctly of a few dishes, which already from the description arouse curiosity and desire to taste... The cozy and pleasant place and a delicate and well-marked service ...

The Celestino restaurant and hotel is housed in a prestigious fifteenth-century house, one of the few preserved in the historic center of Piobesi Torinese, a town half an hour's drive from the Savoy capital. The restaurant has been run since 1904 by the Leggero family, who over the years have handed down the memory of the typical Piedmontese cuisine and hospitality. The large main room has been completely renovated with modern taste but the original barrel vaults dating back to 1458 are still present, plastered. Great raw materials, a perfect mastery of cooking and beautiful dishes for a traditional cuisine presented in a modern guise, this is the synthesis of what we have experienced at Celestino. A restaurant run in a family way for generations (we are now in the fifth!) With a long tradition not only of catering but also of butcher and food shop, a circumstance that makes itself felt in the quality of the offer. We are genuinely thrilled to have experienced a gastronomic e...