Latteria BeraLatteria Bera is an historic shop that adds a touch of extra life to one of the prettiest corners of Turin, where the Art Nouveau of Via Pietro Micca meets the Roman Quadrilateral, the ancient core of the city. Chiara Franzoso took over the reins of the business in 2017, carrying on an all-female tradition begun by her grandfather Romola, who bought the dairy in 1958 with her sisters Marta and Bruna.
Chiara has maintained the shop’s habits – in winter it’s possible to find up to 100 typologies of cheese – while at the same time modernising consumption of all the many products available. Hence its famous mountain cream, produced daily with a historic Steno machine, has now become a takeaway, served in winter with warm zabaglione, in summer with cold. Partly thanks to social media reactions, this successful initiative has been repeated with personalised boards of mixed cheeses, charcuterie and grissini, fondue, gorgonzola, and Puglia buffalo mozzarella with ham. The latest novelty is the picnic basket complete with serviette, half-bottle of wine, and the customer’s choice of Piedmontese and other delicacies.
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