BeC Birroteca Piemontese & Cucina Popolana — Restaurant in Turin

If you like offal and street food, BeC Birroteca Piemontese & Cucina Popolana is a fantastic place. The beer focus is exclusively on local breweries, while the different dishes are from all over Italy and beyond. Here you can find Sicilian "pani ca' meusa" (sandwich with spleen) alongside Tuscan lampredotto sandwiches, plus a variety of spezzatini/ stews with whatever meat is available that day, be it donkey, sheep, or something else. They also make their own porchetta.

The inside is very spartan, as this is not a restaurant but more properly a take-away delicatessen where, thanks to the presence of some tables, it is also possible to eat food and drink beers on site. Because they don't really have a restaurant license, the owner explained to me, they cannot have real glasses/plates. Beers are served in plastic cups, food in paper plates with plastic utensils.

The offer of the day is written on some blackboards and on paper placemats. Most dishes are decidedly meat-centric, and while I would not necessarily recommend BeC if you're vegetarian, there are several side dishes to chose from, all vegetarian (broccoli rabe, krauts, peas, zucchini, peppers, eggplant).

For pasta dishes you can do a mix-and-match where you pick the pasta (beef agnolotti, borage ravioli, plin, gnocchi, tajarin, rigatoni) and match it with the sauce (duck, nuts and gorgonzola, amatriciana, langarolo, and more).

On a recent visit I had the pleasure to try zighini', an Eritrean chicken and beef stew with spices that was rich and flavorful.

Come hungry, come often, and try as many dishes...

This place was a hidden jem of it's kind.You pass outside and as a tourist you might pass. But we had read good critica. It reminds me of little shops we have in the vilages in Greece where you enter thinking you might not find something and then you are surprised by simple things. This was a clean place.The food was prepared that time and was good. The portion not big and the cutlery plastic, but the taste was good and the price excellent. What we liked the most was the beer. We hadn't tasted local beer, and it was good. Mondin was the brand. The next table had some panini's that seemed delicius. So if you like simple things and are on...

Don't walk past! We might have. But a friend told us just how good the food is here. It's simple. But it's special. If you want a tasty sandwich of a choice of perfectly prepared meats with or without vegetables this place is for you. And if you can't speak Italian, the host will help you out. Don't walk by. 😉

Edit....... and the ciabatta is something you don't...