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APERICENAS
Who needs
cena
(dinner) when you've got bar snacks the size of...well...dinners? Turin's answer to
the aperitif is the
apericena,
where bar-side buffets resemble full-blown meals and hard-up backpack-
ers can bypass the cheap pizza joints in favour of posher Piedmontese snacks accompanied by a de-
cent glass of wine. Turin's best and most economical
apericenas
can be procured along Via Po and in
18) serve up excellent pasta concoctions, artichoke pies, risotto and all sorts of other goodies. Another
nexus is the Quadrilatero quarter, where the buffet at
I Tre Galli
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.3galli.com
; Via Sant'Agostino 25; 12.30pm-2.30pm & 6.30pm-midnight Mon-Wed, to 2am
Thu-Sat) should take the sting out of your early evening appeitite without ruining it. Expect to pay
between €5 to €10 for an
apericena
(a drink plus full licence to raid the buffet).
Entertainment
Most clubs open from 9pm to late and cover charges vary depending on the night. Turin's
clubbing district centres on Murazzi del Po (also called Lungo Po Murazzi), the arcaded
riverside area stretching between Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I and Ponte Umberto I - follow
the crowds (and the music).
Teatro Regio Torino
THEATRE
( 011 881 52 41;
www.teatroregio.torino.it
; Piazza Castello 215; ticket office 10.30am-6pm Tue-Fri,
to 4pm Sat & 1hr before performances)
Sold-out performances can sometimes be watched free
on live TV in the adjoining Teatro Piccolo Regio, where Puccini premiered
La Bohème
in
1896. Tickets start at €48.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(
www.hiroshimamonamour.org
;
Via Bossoli 83; admission free-€15)
This legendary dance club plays
everything from folk and punk to tango and techno.
CLUB
Phuddhu Bar
(Murazzi del Po; 7pm-3am)
Drum and bass music on Friday and Saturday nights with DJs
are par for the course in this
Murazzi
club on the riverside.
CLUB
