Restaurants in Piedmont: Top 10

Restaurants in Piedmont

The roots of typical Piedmontese cuisine date back to peasant tradition.

Piedmontese cuisine is a typical representation of authentic Italian culture. It has roots that go back centuries, when people still lived in poverty, but with an appreciation for what they could afford and enjoy on their tables - a simple but delicious meal that may not be formal or elegant, but will always fill your stomach after one course too many!
Aristocratic families from all over Italy came to visit family members who had settled there long ago during the Napoleonic period; some even remained, ensuring that the Piedmonte cooking style (known today worldwide) took shape.

It is a rich cuisine of dishes with a strong and decisive flavour. But what are the main products served in all the restaurants in Piedmont?

A recent study asked people in the city to name their favorite food. By far the most popular dish was the ravioli with meat sauce! It's clear that this city loves pasta, even if they aren't Italian. Other noteworthy choices are fiordiligas (pasta shells filled with vegetables), vermicelli sautéed in a pan and then eaten cold delicately paired between two coffee timbales immersed in an artichoke cream sauce; sage roast pork slow cooked until tender enough to carve.

Restaurants in Piedmont

The Piedmont is rich in DOP and IGP branded products.

The regional recipes are made unique by some ingredients such as truffles, Barbera or Barolo and cheeses.

The truffle can be of two qualities: the black one, more common, and the white one, more expensive and rare. The area with a high production for the harvest is Alba. Among the most important recipes we find the "Filetto alla Rossini", enriched by the presence of Foie Gras.

The Barolo is used in the preparation of "Brasato", a Fassone meat stew cooked for a long time in wine. All restaurants in Piedmont 

Milk production is very ancient. Dairy art is very widespread in Piedmont. There are more than thirty types of Piedmontese cheeses, including 9 with the DOP mark. One of the most famous cheeses produced in this region is Gorgonzola.

Of fundamental importance, in this area, is chocolate, closely linked to the city of Turin. It is in this city that Bicerin was born, a hot drink based on coffee, cocoa and milk cream.

Mixing cocoa, vanilla, water and sugar gives rise to chocolates. The Gianduiotto was the first chocolate to be wrapped. Born in 1865, when Michele Pochet combined cocoa with hazelnut.

Restaurants in Piedmont

The pride of the region is the pastry shop, from which come the Amaretti, made with almonds, the Marron Glacè, the Baci di Dama and the Bonet, a spoon dessert prepared with amaretti, cocoa, eggs, milk, flavored with rum and covered in caramel.

To taste these products, we report below the name of 10 of the best restaurants in Piedmont:

Restaurants in Piedmont

• The "Ristorante Piazza Duomo" in Alba, led by the Ceretto family and Chef Enrico Crippa, boasts 3 Michelin Stars. Along with the menu which varies according to the seasons, the wine selection also varies. The restaurant is equipped with a vegetable garden which includes a cultivation greenhouse and a plot where the Chef goes daily to select and harvest vegetables, herbs and flowers. Gian Piero Vivalda's goal is the search for perfection, not only culinary. Raw material comes first.

• The Villa Crespi Restaurant with Chef Antonino Canavacciuolo at the head of the kitchen. It uses refined products, the fusion between present and past of Mediterranean Cuisine. He was awarded 2 Michelin Stars.A journey with attention to detail, with moderate creativity, always balanced even in the most risky combinations.
• At Sorriso, in the province of Novara, Luisa Valazza's cuisine meets the gastronomic traditions of the area, covering dishes prepared with the heart. Care and respect for raw materials, to propose recipes with magical multi-sensory sensations.
• Al Piccolo Lago, a stone's throw from Verbania sees Marco Sacco as the protagonist of his cuisine. The proposed gastronomic journey passes from the outer east, goes around the world and then returns to the shores of Lake Mergozzo. architectural in favor of an experience that involves all five senses simultaneously. Disruptive, always experimental, above all cultured; spokesperson of the raw material as the keystone of every composition.

• The Dolce Stil Novo Alla Reggia, at the top of gastronomic guides for years and marked with a star by the prestigious Michelin guide. Its patron chef, Alfredo Russo, an undisputed talent of haute cuisine in Italy and abroad, directs it and takes care of the cuisine. An innovative and personal philosophy, but with deep roots in Italian tradition.
• The Restaurant "Larossa", a name that derives from the surname of Chef Andrea Larossa, at the helm of the kitchen. It has won a Michelin Star. It is located in Alba and offers dishes from the Piedmontese tradition with a modern revisitation.
• Osteria Arborina offers an à la carte menu and two tasting menus, called respectively “Il Confortevole o della Tradizione” and “L’Ostico o of Innovation". You will be able to taste the dishes that made chef Andrea Ribaldone known such as Agnolotti di Fassona and Spaghetti Milano, a large piece of spaghetti cooked in water, with a little salt, and creamed with a Milanese risotto previously and deliberately cooked overcooked.

Piedmont Restaurants

• The Locanda del Pilone with Chef Federico Gallo at the helm of the kitchen. His dishes interpret the products of the Langhe, in the proposed menus the influence of the Mediterranean tradition, rich in colours, aromas and flavors, and the Piedmontese one are blended with balance and freshness. Particular attention is paid to local products and quality raw materials personally selected by the chef and his kitchen team. Lively and stimulating dishes are presented, always in tune with the seasons. The service in the room is impeccable; the wine list consists of over twelve hundred labels.