The food here is incredibly good. You choose whatever you want directly from the butcher counter, and they cook it for you. Simple, quick, and no-frills. There are no proper seats, just a few standing tables where you can lean and eat.
A really fun gelato shop where you can try some truly interesting flavors. Some of them include bread, butter & sugar or olive oil & vanilla, but there are many more worth exploring. The gelato is rich and creamy with a great texture, and there are plenty of vegan options too. Fully approved, with multiple locations across Turin.
Confine is by now a famous pizzeria in Milan and beyond. Here you can enjoy a true pizza tasting experience, exploring different doughs, baking techniques, and creative combinations of flavors and ingredients. It’s absolutely worth trying if you want to discover just how much there still is to learn and explore about pizza. Prices are naturally higher than at a traditional pizzeria, but the experience is well worth it.
This is a fish market restaurant in Porta Palazzo, one of the largest and most chaotic markets in Turin. Here you can enjoy delicious seafood dishes. They are especially famous for their mixed fried seafood, but the daily specials are also beautifully prepared. It’s a great place to eat fresh fish, cooked well and at a reasonable price. Definitely worth trying if you visit Turin and spend some time around Porta Palazzo. Especially when the market is at its busiest, there can be long lines, but it’s absolutely worth the wait.
Gallina is a wonderful restaurant in Athens. Its cuisine is hard to define precisely, but the dishes are fresh, refined, and move between Greek, French, and Italian inspirations, reflecting the chef’s experience. The raw seafood dishes are outstanding and definitely worth trying. You’ll find some plates that stay closer to tradition and others that are more experimental. The wine selection is also exceptionally well curated.
Caffè San Carlo is a historic Italian style café that over time has also established itself as an excellent bakery, where you can try some pastries I like to describe as “over-the-top treats.” I say this because they perfectly reflect the style of Caffè San Carlo, both in appearance and flavor. They are very rich and might not suit everyone’s taste, but they are exceptionally well made. Their most iconic pastry is “La Carla”: a kind of cocoa croissant filled with coffee cream and caramel. Whenever I come here, I always share one pastry with someone else. It’s also located in a beautiful area of Turin, and if the weather is nice, you can sit outside as well.
Giannasi is an institution in Milan. Famous for its rotisserie chicken and its iconic kiosk in Porta Romana, it continues the tradition of hearty, traditional cuisine at affordable prices. And don’t think it’s just about chicken: it’s a true delicatessen, offering authentic local specialties that are genuine and ready to enjoy. There’s always a line!
This is a very cozy place where you can try what some people say are the best bitterballen in Amsterdam. I don’t know if that’s true, but I ate here and they were really good. I paired them with a beer, just a standard one, but I’d say sometimes that’s enough 🙂
This little kiosk often comes back to my mind. Is the food something mind-blowing? No. So why do I still think about it years later? Because, to me, it perfectly captures a certain idea of Amsterdam. It’s a small kiosk overlooking the Singel canal, where you can stop for some typical Nordic ingredients in the simplest form: fresh fish, pickles, raw onion and bread. I had a herring sandwich and a shrimp sandwich. The flavors are very fresh and, for my palate, almost strangely summery, the kind of thing you could imagine eating on a warm beach in Italy. But here the experience is completely different: you’re there, on the Singel bridge, with the Dutch wind hitting your face, the canal in front of you, and that sense of calm that only certain places in Northern Europe can give me. I still remember the man with the walrus moustache who ordered just before me. He made me smile, and maybe he’s part of the reason why I have such a beautiful memory of this place.
This izakaya is the little sister of the other Ailimē in the Regio Parco neighbourhood. Here, the offer is definitely simpler. The kitchen is very small and rudimental, so most of the dishes are raw and small. The fun part is that you can order almost the entire menu and share everything, so you get to taste a bit of everything. Like its big sister, you won’t find fusion food here, but you can order Italian, especially Emilian, and Japanese dishes at the same time. A core part of the experience is the drink list. Last time I came here, I drank several Bloody Marys with Francesca because they were pretty well done. Of course, the wine and sake list is also really well thought out. Sake is not so common in Turin, and Chicca, the owner, is a sake sommelier. So, you do the math.
Berberè is my everyday pizza, and my favourite one too, even if sadly I don’t eat it every day. If we ever meet, this is probably one of the first places I’ll suggest to you. They were among the first in Italy to experiment with a lighter version of pizza made with sourdough. Now they’re at their best, crafting high-quality, distinctive pizzas from Bologna to London. They rethought the pizza experience by cutting each pizza into eight slices and placing the toppings evenly on each slice. What does that mean? It means the experience feels totally different from other pizzerias. Instead of scrolling through the menu alone, choosing which pizzas to order becomes a shared moment, because sharing is so easy. You’ll probably find yourself suggesting pizzas to others because they pair perfectly with what you chose. A special place made by passionate people.
What you’ll find here is simple: incredibly good falafel, followed by shawarma that’s definitely worth trying. The place isn’t fancy, but honestly, that’s not the point. Just sit down and order your fucking satisfying lunch.
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They don't function without the amount of coffee that a normal person drinks in an entire week. Their eyelids, every now and then, take on a life of their own and do a little dance. Coffee at the café is a sacred ritual, and any delay in the delivery of the drink is an unforgivable crime. They're constantly on edge, but no one dares to tell them. The last person who tried... well, they’re no longer with us to tell the tale.
Their goal isn’t to eat, but to review. They wear glasses to look the part, but their vision is perfect. If you don’t find their review under a restaurant, it’s probably just because they haven’t been there yet. "We thrive on negative reviews, they’re a blast to write and to read."
Their latest creation? Chocolate and pickled shrimp cake. They love experimenting, and their house is full of jars and test tubes. More than once, they've come close to blowing everything up. Their favorite guinea pig? The fearless explorer. At home, they have a little shrine with a picture of David Zilber.
They always order the spiciest dish on the menu, and everyone thinks their tongue must have lost all sense of taste by now. Their necklace is made of real habaneros, their lifeline in case the dish isn't spicy enough. All sweaty and red-faced with a fiery tongue, they declare: "It's not that spicy!"
For them, veggies aren’t side dishes, they’re the main characters. They always go around with their tote bag, from which inevitably sticks out some rare veggie, the kind you didn’t even know existed, but they know better than their own name. They know their farmers by name and will travel miles just to get “the good kale.” Their gut microbiome probably sees them as a god.
Before eating out, they always call the restaurant, just to find out what kind of death awaits them. Traces of peanuts, cereals, crustaceans, or maybe just a pinch of lactose for a rough night. While everyone else gets a long list of delicious options, they’re left with two bland and tasteless choices. They watch their friends' plates with envy, wondering if maybe they should’ve just stayed home. “By the time you realize our suffering, it’ll be too late.”
They don’t travel for places, they travel for food. They don’t need a map, their instinct leads them to the nearest ferment, street stall, or grumpy-chef trattoria with no website. They’ll happily spend 12 hours on a bus just to eat a pizza in Naples and head straight back. Crappy hotels and uncomfortable journeys? Always worth it, if there’s something unforgettable on the plate at the end.
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