Pfatisch

Pfatisch

www.pfatisch.com

Named one of the Historical Places of Italy, Pfatisch has been an important confectionery business since 1915. With its Art Deco-style shop and massive basement workshop, it is a veritable chocolate museum, one that has left a mark in the history of Turin itself. Today it’s run by Claudia Berutti, who is careful to strike the right balance between tradition and innovation. Standing out in addition to fresh confectionery and biscuits, delicious baked goods, giandujotti and cream spreads, are specialties that have gone down in history: more specifically, Il festivo, a cocoa-flavoured meringue cake with Chantilly cream with its characteristic chocolate tuff (the symbol of the house), and La fenice (hazelnut meringue cake with pineapple). The marrons glacés are still boiled for over five hours, hand-peeled and candied with fine sugars for eight days. Plus, there’s a vast assortment of savoury bites and assorted ‘canapé cakes’. A novelty for 2018, in collaboration with Gelateria Testa, is artisan ice cream. Closed on Sunday afternoon and Monday.