Torino Travel Forum

Dear VT friends,
I am Amit, planning to travel to Torino in Jan 08. It will be great help to me if anybody can help me to find out: Veg restaurants, Pubs, in Torino. Please also advice me for the short trips in and around Torino, where I can look around for sightseeing. I will more then happy if any member of VT can meet there during my stay. I will be in Torino for one month. Thanks.

There is only one officially vegetarian restaurant in Turin, and it's pretty... unappealing. It's called Il Punto Verde on Via San Massimo 17. They do a lot of dishes with "fake meats" like seitan and tempeh at the center. However, I lived in the city for just shy of two years, and never had a problem getting vegetarian food at restaurants. For a nice dinner out, Savoia does traditional Piemontese cuisine and can whip up a three-course vegetarian menu for you if you call a few days in advance and make reservations (let them know you want the vegetarian menu when you reserve). There are infinite vegetarian pizzas, pastas and salads at any restaurant. Brek is an upscale self-serve cafeteria in Pizza Carlo Felice and Piazza Solferino; they have Italy's best salad bar, as well as vegetarian pastas and usually a vegetarian soup.

For drinking, I liked a lot of the aperitivo bars where you get free munchies with your drinks. Caffe Roberto on Via Po is quite nice, but for a younger, funkier atmosphere try Zonk (Via Bellezia), La Drogeuria (Piazza Vittorio Veneto) or Lobelix (Piazza Savoia). Caffe Gabetti is a ten-minute tram ride from downtown but has the biggest selection of free munchies (it's not unusual to see whole roast chickens, big dishes of mussels, etc.).

Hi Carly, I have to inform you that Restaurant Savoia has changed management few months ago. I didn't tryed it yet, so I can't say what has changed. (It was also one of my favourite).

The aperitivo with a lot of finger food and alike is called here "happy hour": no discount on the drinks (the range is 7-10 euro) but there is a buffet all-you-can-eat (the overall quality may be not like the usual italian standard). There are many bars doing the happy hour, usually from 7pm. The most in the
"Quadrilatero" zone and also in square/piazza Vittorio.

For other hints take a look at the Torino pages on VTers.
Ciao.
marco

Thanks for your time and reply.

I will definetly follow your advice.

Best Regards

Amit.