Angolo del Buongustaio di Messaglia & C.

This “taste institution” established by Maria Margherita Messaglia and her husband Paolo Garigliet is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Here they attach the utmost attention to the quality of the ingredients they use to make their excellent traditional Piedmontese dishes and of the products they sell in the shop, such as wines, pastas, extra virgin olive oils, cheeses and craft charcuterie (from salami to  culatello with Barolo to Sardinian shepherds’ pecorinos). It is possible to find fresh, wholesome first and second courses here every day: from lasagne with ragù cooked for three hours to agnolotti prepared according to the traditional Piedmontese recipe, from insalata russa to boned rabbit with balsamic vinegar, to gnocchi alla parigina or with nettles. Then come tofeja (pork rind and bean soup), stuffed capon (at Christmas), finanziera (chicken offal stew) and rabbit Ligurian-style. The confectionery and desserts are also a feast of flavour with cornmeal biscuits, krumiri, bonet, bicerin (a hot blend of coffee and cocoa), hazelnut tart, baci di dama, amaretti and canestrelli.

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