Antico Forno del PaschèSince 2016 the young Avitabile brother and sister partnership of Eleonora, behind the counter, and Daniele, in the bakery, have run this small bread shop a short distance from the historic centre of Avigliana in the Valsangone. Self-taught but with huge passion and a mission, to satisfy all their customers, they bake bread, some with sourdough, and more besides. Here it is possible to find loaves made with special stone-ground flours, buckwheat, remilled durum wheat semolina and rye, mountain bread with rye and dried fruit, and, in winter, chocolate. Plus hand-pulled grissini, traditional fresh and dry cakes from the Langhe area, petite patissserie, dry biscuits and viennoiserie. On the first floor a gastronomia, or deli, prepares delicacies for receptions and ceremonies.
On Saturday nights in summer it is possible to enyoy “cornetteria notturna”, pastries by night, with chocolate chip bread buns, bomboloni, circular fritters, cornetti in more than 12 flavours, pizza and focaccia. Worthy of mention, finally, is the panettone with Drubiaglio onion (a Slow Food Presidium).
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