Turin restaurants
There seems to be a shortage of Turin restaurants in the
centre of the city, especially if you're arrived late and it's raining.
 However,
apart from the kebab shops and takeaway pizza there are some genuinely
good places with excellent food, excellent service and excellent prices.
La
Caravella, (Via Fratelli Vasco, 2, just off Via Po)
is open late and full of just the sort of people who want to eat late,
including us late arriving tourists. They even have linen tablecloths
and serviettes and the service is prompt and friendly. Two people for
pizza and the local plonk is around €25.
If you're sightseeing and hungry then the best advice
is to just head the nearest place that serves lunch, the standard is
uniformly high. Fusilli al ragú, for example (pasta spirals
with bolognese) or some other pasta dish should cost no more than €10
per head with a drink and coffee.
 Close
to La Mole and
the University of Turin there are a handful of restaurants selling good
cheap food, ideal for lunch, such as Tre
da Tre (Via Giuseppe Verdi, 33), where we ate al fresco
for around €7 per person, including a pizza and soft drink.
Piazza Emanuele Filiberto has a few restaurants
with tables outside, ideal for lunch. Pastis is very popular and
you may have to wait a while for a table, especially at weekends, although
the wait is worthwhile, although we were dissappointed with the highly
rated Tre
Galline. Another disappointing restaurant is Da
Mauro, which seems to be in the wrong business entirely.
 Turin
has a number of specialities, such as grissini, the typical Italian
breadsticks that
legend tells us were first baked to help cure a sick child-prince, later
the first King of Piedmont, and is famed for its chocolate.
It is also noteable that Turin hosts the Slow
Food Movement's biennial event at the Lingotto Exhibition Centre.
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