Testa dal 1916

Walking into this shop, you realise straightaway that you are in a very special place. You can tell from the service, the kindness, the quality of the products, and from the care with which they are displayed. The Testa family has worked to be the best in the business for four generations now, after all: a veritable temple of meat in Turin. Cuts come from select livestock breeders in Canale d’Alba and Rivoli: hence ribs, fillets, best end and hand-chopped veal solely from purebred Piedmontese fassone calves. Not that the product range of this “boutique of taste” is confined to fresh meat alone. The cheese and typical Italian charcuterie are also the fruit of careful research: hence Arnad lardo, Piedmontese bresaola, sliced guanciale, or cheek bacon, PGI speck from the Alto Adige Igp, “blu del Moncenisio” cheese, burrata, crottin de chevre, PDO castelmagno Dop, fontina d’Aosta, and the legendary robiola of Cocconato. There are also delicious deli products such as vegetable flan, tomini with parsley and garlic sauce, vitello tonnato, Testa agnolotti filled with fassone, gnocchi alla romana, insalata russa, or Russian salad, and splendid bunet, set chocolate and amaretti custard.

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