If you love good food and you’re visiting Turin than this post is for you. Here is the my top-two high-end restaurants in Turin: Gotha and Cannavacciuolo Bistrot. Here you’ll see pictures & videos displaying the beautiful & tasty platters you will be offered and the prices you’ll pay.

To discover the best typical local food of Turin, you may read my post on Top 15 Famous Turin Food.

1. Gotha Restaurant

Gotha is a very new restaurant in Turin’s restaurant Panorama. As a matter of fact, to the date in which I’m writing this post it has only 36 reviews on Trip Advisor.

Quick Summary of Gotha

• Location: In the heart of Turin city-center, Via Fratelli Calandra 16. Modern & hip look.
• Food: fresh ingredients, very tasty, colorful & well presented
• Menu: Seasonal menu, few dishes stay on the menu all year long.
• Wine list: not huge, but with good selections.
• Staff: The staff was accommodating, friendly and well prepared
• Price range 40-70€: Starters 15-20€, First course 16-18€, Second course 22-24€, Dessert 8-10€

The Dinner journey at Gotha

1. Amouse Bouche:

Dinner started with four tiny “amuse bouche” offered by the restaurant. It was a pleasant surprise, well presented and a great start to the meal.

2. Starters:

As a starter, I took the platter of raw fish. My wife took cuttle-fish with its ink sauce. Both out-standing!

3. Main Course

As a main course, I took filled-pasta called “bottoni” in brooth of fresh fish. Very rich in taste, highly recommended.

My wife, took the classic taglioni “ai 40 tuorli” with black truffle. You can really tell it was fresh pasta hand made pasta and that they used 40 yolks, due to the intense yellow color. Great choice.

4. Dessert

To finish off, we took the Barolo chinato dessert. It was as tasty as gorgeous.

Gotha was a fantastic dining experience. We don’t regret that for a second. A must try if in Turin!

2. Cannavacciuolo Bistrot

In Italy, everyone knows who Cannavacciuolo is. But I appreciate that people from abroad may not, so let me just say a few things about him:

• He is a Michelin-star chef, who now owns several restaurants
• He is one of the judges of the famous “Masterchef” program on Sky
• Born and raised in Naples, his specialty is definitely fish
• He recently one 3 Michelin-stars at his signature restaurant “Villa Crespi”- 1:30h from Turin
• Cannavacciuolo “Bistrot” is a more affordable restaurant, it recently won 1 Michelin-star

Quick Summary of Cannavacciuolo Bistrot

• Location: It is located in Turin city centre, in Via Umberto Cosmo 6. Near the “Gran Madre”
• Food: fresh ingredients,very tasty, well presented. No surprise it one a Michelin star.
• Menu: Typical local food from Turin, revisited in a modern & “innovative” way
• Wine list: Great selection
• Staff: The staff was extremely professional. Service was spotless.
• Price range: a) Seven-course Menu: 120-130€ b) A la carte, typically ~ 70-100€:
• A la carte prices: Starters 28-40€, Main  course 28-40€, Dessert 20€

The Dinner journey at Cannavacciuolo Bistrot

1. Amouse Bouche:

Dinner started with four tiny “amuse bouche”. We had the famous “carne cruda” of Turin, marinated anchovies, Parma ham on home-made bun and a savory cannolo.

2. Starters:

Wow. As a starter, we had the famous signature dish “Tonno Vitellato”. This was raw tuna tartare with a mayonnaise made of “bottarga” (delicacy of salted cured fish roe) and a “beef” sauce in the middle.

Here is where you see the creativity of the now 3 Michelin-star chef. The idea comes from the typical local dish of Turin called “Vitello Tonnato”, which is basically sliced veal covered in a sauce made out of tuna. Cannavacciuolo did the exact opposite, he made Tuna served with a veal sauce. That was Brilliant.

3. First Course:

In the 7 course menu you’ll be served two first courses. The first one, is a Ravioli pasta filled with duck, buffalo milk, raspberry and radish.

The second is a Risotto made of garlic, olive oil, “bottarga” and lemon. The dish looked stunning, it reminded me of a Kandinsky painting.

4. Second course

Was a Veal cheek, served with celery, hazelnut, turmeric and porcini mushrooms. This is a typical local dish of Turin. The chef here did not recreate the dish but definitely gave it a modern touch.

5. Pre-Dessert
This was absolutely stunning. It was a home-made cream with raspberry sauce inside and raspberry crust.

6. Dessert
The true capital sin, the Italian Dark chocolate & hazelnut brownie.

7. After-dessert
This was called les petits-four, a selection of four tiny but tasty pastries.

This finished our 7 course meal at Cannavacciuolo bistrot in Turin. It is a bit pricy, but it worth a try for a special occasion. You will not regret it!