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Autentico is located in Cherasco, Piedmont's snail capital, in the historic cellars of Palazzo Ormea, right in the center of town. The unique room, renovated with great taste, has rectangular development and an open kitchen. Tables are set with C.F.B. tablecloths, shiny Hepp Exlusiv 18/10 steel cutlery, beautiful Brazilian Tramontina meat knives with wooden handles, Churchill plates and Caraiba stemware. A Poldina Zafferano led lamp at each table completes the curated mise en place. Having long known maìtre George Marica, a guarantee, and Chef Stefano Rudino, whom we have already met in previous reports, we visited Autentico Cherasco with high expectations, which were punctually fulfilled. We had the idea of finding good local cuisine revisited in a modern key, and so it was, because here the authentic tradition, the “grandmother's” one to be clear, is reproposed (and even surpassed) with ideas, balance, taste and technique. Stefano Rudino's cooking is ...

I Due Buoi, a historic restaurant in Alessandria, will move to the beautiful setting of Villa Guazzo Candiani in Olivola, Monferrato, in 2021, leaving the Bistrot Cavour to continue its in-house dining service at the Hotel Alli due Buoi Rossi in Alessandria. The 1585 villa, surrounded by a garden with paths and secular trees, completes its offer with the six apartments of the charming Residence, located in the village, a short walk from the villa. The restaurant consists of three beautiful frescoed rooms, plus a dedicated room where customers can enjoy espresso or coffee prepared by the extraction method. Ristorante I Due Buoi is an attractive destination thanks to its beautiful location and gourmet cuisine. The chef, Marco Molaro, works with respect for the raw material and with a view to enhancing the territory, with excellent technique and some oriental influences. There is no lack of original ideas, for example in the desserts. The presentations are well thoug...

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Casa Buono is the gastronomic jewel of Antonio Buono, for 6 years sous-chef to Mauro Colagreco at Mirazur in Menton, and his wife Valentina. The restaurant is located 10 minutes by car from Ventimiglia, on the Colle di Tenda highway, strategically located near the highway junctions of Western Liguria and the French Riviera. The interior of the restaurant, which since our last report has benefited from the addition of a new dining room, has few seats and informal-chic tones. Crossing the threshold, you enter a small room with only three tables, which ends at the back with a designer bar (with original raised wine cellars) and the open kitchen. An old stone millstone towers over the second small room, warm and welcoming. To dine at Casa Buono is to pay a visit to a chef who in five years, directing the synchronized work of twenty chefs under his command, has been able to take the Mirazur restaurant in Menton to the roof of the world, achieving a third Michelin star and...

Donatella Bistrot is located in Oviglio, an ancient town in the Alessandria region, between Monferrato and Langhe, with a charming castle. The interior of the restaurant, which is divided into a large rectangular room, is warm, welcoming and atmospheric, furnished with taste and originality. In the warm season there is a pleasant terrace. Donatella Bistrot is also Dispensa, to share with guests Donatella's food and wine discoveries around Italy. Donatella Bistrot was a starred restaurant for 8 years until 2015, when it voluntarily gave up the recognition, out of a legitimate desire to cook for its clientele, especially the local ones, and not for awards. Nevertheless, it is immediately noticeable that the cuisine, the ambience and the service have remained essentially the same as the one that had earned the star, certainly with some reduction in the richness of the table linen, but with much unchanged warmth and passion, which immediately come to the fore as the t...

The Trattoria Guallina is immersed in the greenery of the Lomellina, surrounded by acacias and elder trees, far from the traffic and hustle and bustle of the city, but at the same time just a few kilometers from Mortara and easily accessible from the Gropello Cairoli exit of the Milan-Genoa highway. The rooms, divided into two small family-style rooms, are pleasantly rustic and traditional, and convey a sense of measured and composed elegance. Grey tiled floors, yellow painted walls, classic old-fashioned chairs, ceilings decorated with wooden ribs, poor art furniture and a pellet stove strategically placed next to the entrance knob are the distinguishing features of the décor. The Trattoria Guallina has always offered a cuisine closely tied to the territory and to tradition, respecting seasonality and in constant search of quality, with preparations just lightened to meet modern tastes. The specialty of the house is the goose, to which many dishes almost introvabli el...

The Bistrot del Portico is located in a historical building of character in the center of Lanzo Torinese. The interior has been renovated and tastefully furnished. In the dining room you can see wooden shelves with many bottles, vaulted ceilings and exposed copper ventilation pipes. Matteo Rossatto's cuisine is a real discovery: clean and precise flavors, calibrated to perfection, following to the letter the philosophy of taking away rather than adding, the result of painstaking precision and state-of-the-art technology in the (tiny) kitchen. What arrives in the dining room are dishes with an unmistakable soul and identity, preparations that make you feel all the passion behind them, dishes inspired by tradition but strongly contemporary, with high school citations. Chiara in the dining room contributes to the overall pleasure of the restaurant, bringing each dish to the table and explaining it with grace and competence. The wine list is excellent, thanks to the...