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wonderfully rustic ingredients (and not too much cheese), they fly like hot bullets from
the ovens of comic Torinese TV presenter Piero Chiamretti, whose funky postmodern
city-centre set-up pitches retro toys amid an outlandish interior. The other in-house classic
is mussels in tomato sauce.
Perino Vesco
BAKERY
€
(
011 068 60 56;
www.perinovesco.it
; Via Cavour 10; snacks from €4;
9.30am-7.30pm Mon-Sat)
Ligurians missing their daily bread fix needn't worry. The fresh focaccia has followed
you to Turin courtesy of cult Slow Food Torinese baker Andrea Perino, who knocks out
generous portions of tasty snacks at this bakery-cum-cafe.
Gofri Piemontéisa
SNACKS
€
(
www.gofriemiassepiemontesi.it
;
Via San Tommaso 4a; 11.30am-7.30pm Mon-Sat)
Gofri
are
thin waffles made from flour, water and yeast, cooked in hot irons. This traditional dish
from the mountainous regions of northern Piedmont has been reinvented as tasty fast food
by a local chef. Try the house
gofre
with ham, soft cheese and rocket or one of the equally
delicious
miasse
(corn-based crêpes).
Eataly
(
www.eatalytorino.it
; Via Nizza 230; 10am-8pm Tue-Sun)
Adjacent to the Lingotto con-
gress centre is the Slow Food Movement's supermarket. Set in a vast converted factory, it
houses a staggering array of sustainable food and beverages, with a separate area for each,
including cheeses, breads, meats, fish, pasta, chocolate and much more.
The best time to visit is around 12.30pm to 2.30pm, when each area has its own little
restaurant serving lunch.
CAFE, DELI
€
Grom
GELATO
€
(
www.grom.it
;
Piazza Pietro Paleocapa; 11am-midnight Sun-Thu, to 1am Fri & Sat)
If you
haven't heard of Grom, you haven't been in Turin long. The Slow Food-championed, ar-
tisan ice cream chain founded their first store right here in 2003, promising to put the
