Where to buy bread cakes chocolates ice cream Piedmont

Grom's gelato is made using only fresh, natural ingredients, sourced directly from producers. Founded in 2003 by Guido Martinetti and Federico Grom, the company was an instant success, opening stores all over Italy and abroad, in Paris for example. In Turin, there are three gelaterias in the city center. The range changes with the seasons, but in winter the thick, creamy hot chocolates, with or without panna, are extraordinary!

A historic Turin patisserie, opened in the early ^20th century by pastry chef Gustavo Pfatsich, who brought his love of gourmet pastry-making with him from the mountains. Housed in a superb Liberty building, under the arcades, it's a veritable kingdom of gourmet delights. Try the cream spreads and the Fenice cake with meringue and fruit. People come from far and wide to try diamanti arriba, filled chocolates in the shape of precious stones, and marrons glacés, some of the best in town. And at the end of 2024, the patisserie will open a museum dedicated to chocolate!

Directly from Sicily, the best granita in the city.

Try fior di panna, sabaion and amaretto scents, Noisettes hazelnuts and mandarin sherbet.

The oldest bakery in Turin where you can find special breads and famous grissini whose stirati are 1,60 m long.

At Gobino, chocolate isn't just a quality treat, it's a sensory experience where every bite represents hours of work and research. Excellence begins with the raw materials: cocoa, selected from the finest vintages, hazelnuts, essential to the famous gianduiotto, typical of the Turin tradition, and the best flavours to make each chocolate a unique piece. Add to this the trendy design, and the packaging that would be worthy of being displayed in a museum for its elegant simplicity.

Established in 1880, Gertosio is a historic pasticceria in the center of Turin. Here, you can stock up on quality spreads - a pure delight made with cocoa and Piedmont hazelnuts, guaranteed palm-oil free - and, of course, exceptional homemade chocolates, including traditional Turin gianduiotti in their golden wrappers (there's even a giant version for aficionados!) and dark chocolate bars with whole hazelnuts that are more than appetizing! The perfect place to stock up...

A pastry shop renowned for its excellent chocolate since 1915, it is one of the Piedmont capital's institutions. Try all the wonderful specialties of Turin's great chocolate-making tradition, especially the alpini, chocolates filled with liqueur, and, of course, the famous hazelnut giandujotti. All treats are made from cocoa beans roasted right here in the nearly 1,000^m2 laboratory. Everything is absolutely delicious, whatever you choose... A benchmark!

Renowned for its many melting chocolates and marrons glacés (a marvel, arguably the best in the city!) since 1836, this is where Cavour used to order for his receptions as a minister. The glorious patisserie now has a chic little counter where you can sip a good coffee or cappuccino in the morning. From April to November, if you take a seat on the lovely terrace overlooking the Piazza San Carlo, you'll be served a number of dishes as light as they are refined, ranging from club sandwiches to smoked salmon with salad.

This small family pastry shop (also caterer), well known since its creation in 1958, is full of very appetizing sweets, all handmade. Well located under the arcades, in a wooded setting, it allows you to take a comforting break. Fruit pastes with orange, melon, peach or banana flavour. It is the ideal place to discover Italian and especially Piedmontese pastries, including Pan della Marchesa, the house specialty with hazelnuts, and Lose golose, Susa cakes with almond, cocoa and peach flavor.

For more than 40 years, this artisanal pastry shop has excelled in its house specialty, margheritine, small light and melting cookies first made in 1868 for the Queen of Italy, Margherita. They are now the pride of the city. You can't leave Stresa without tasting them. The cookies can be bought by the gram. To make a gift, they are packed in a pretty cardboard box with the representation of the city in engraving. Other tempting sweets: panettone, filled mini-croissants, tarts...

It's a must for gourmets from Alessandria and beyond, right in the heart of the city. The evocative setting of the former Guerci gallery, built in Liberty style in 1895, makes Bonadeo's delicate pastries even more exquisite, in particular the petit fours, the wide variety of brioches and the famous Polenta di Marengo cake (a soft pastry made from corn flour, starch and raisins, covered with a maraschino glaze) that pay homage to the city's great pastry-making tradition.

Since the 1970s, the Rolando family has run this beautiful pastry shop in the centre of Tortona, an unmissable haunt for gourmets and gourmands. Although its specialities are numerous, it is especially known for its Baci di Dama (lady's kisses). Small oval biscuits united by a thin veil of chocolate, the Baci di Dama are the jewel of the city. Their reputation has long since spread beyond the Piedmontese and even national borders, but it is here that the best are to be found. A visit is mandatory!

A true Ivrea institution, this glorious pastry owes its fame to Torta 900, patented by Umberto Balla in 1972. Its gourmet recipe, however, dates back to the ^19th century, created by Ottavio Bertinotti, and the secret of its manufacture has been jealously guarded ever since. It's made up of two discs of sponge-like, but lighter, cocoa dough, topped at the last minute with chocolate cream and dusted with powdered sugar. The result is really delicate and melts in the mouth.

Simply delicious! What more can be said about the products of this laboratory, which makes artisan pasta whose recipe has not changed over time? Agnolotti, raviolini, cappelletti, gnocchi: all Piedmontese specialties prepared with the freshest ingredients, from flour and eggs to fillings (meat, cheese or vegetable) and accompanied by 100% natural sauces. Enough to fill up your shopping basket before you leave - the pasta in question will last a few days!

For a gourmet stopover during your day of sightseeing, don't miss the Almonte café-pâtisserie, which makes some of the best rum saluzzesi in the region. These delicious sweets are indeed the local specialty: pralines in a heart of rum-flavored cream, wrapped in meringue and dark chocolate... Pure pleasure! But the other patisseries are also worth a detour, each as pretty and tasty as the next. Everything is very fresh and the staff are really friendly. An excellent address!

MaCam is a gelateria like no other. The flavors of the moment are marked on a slate, and, surprise, alongside the classics, you can find some truly surprising tastes, such as carrot ice cream or basil and pine nuts! The ingredients used in our ice creams, smoothies and soups of the day are of the freshest quality, and you'll soon notice the difference when you taste them. And as the ingredients are only seasonal, there's no question of finding a melon or fig sorbet here during the winter!

Since 1881, the specialty of this chocolate factory, now run by the passionate Giancarlo Torta and his children, has been Baci di Cherasco, a blend of Piedmont hazelnuts and dark chocolate. They're a sure-fire hit to pack in your suitcases! But the other sweets are just as delicious... The setting of the patisserie, under the arcades, has not changed and has kept its wooden shelves, marble tables and paved floor from over a century ago. A true temple to gourmet delights!