Ken W.
Yelp
A great find, tucked away below a few stairs in a sloping arcade below the main buildings of the street, a signboard menu (in Italian) on the main thoroughfare the only sign that, beyond its dark door beside a very small garden, lies a salute to the great tradition of Piedmontese cuisine. The hosts were very courteous even though we rang the doorbell before opening time, and graciously accepted our last-minute reservation for 45 minutes later.
Like many restaurants in this area, we dined under sloping arched ceilings supporting floors above, and the restaurant, while busy, was never noisy. The menu offered several ideas and deals for multi-course meals, but we decided to go our own way, and chose starters of "trout of the valley three ways", and knife-chopped fassone, which is a local veal tartare, with truffle 'caviar' and local botargo (cured fish eggs), then a gnocchi of nettles with smoked mozzarella cream, and then for secondi, a suckling pig and a rack of lamb. The food was extremely good, to say the least. For me, this was lamb...that tasted like lamb. That was the first thing we exclaimed. Not gamy, but simply a perfect expression of lamb. The suckling pig had a perfectly crispy crust of skin over the softest, melt-in-the-mouth pork that I have eaten outside the best barbeque joints in the US. Amazing stuff.
