Bistrot Turin — Restaurant in Turin

After initially wanting just to freshen up with an Aperol Spritz, we decided to have a meal. There was one table inside, only after we sat, that I noticed another floor was up. We had an hour and a half, before the next reservation. The menu was in Italian, they did show us a QR code for the English menu, but the names of the dishes were also in their Italian variant, and one of the waiters had to translate. There was a miscommunication, so two of us received raw meat (carne cruda) which is in fact a Piemontese dish. The pickled onions in red wine and the toasted bread were a very nice companion to the meat, but our friend didn't finish her meal. The lasagna and spaghetti were good. Also the meat and cheese plate was very good as an addition. Have in mind that in the bill the restaurant ads an extra fee, coperto which is a per-person fee due in all kinds of restaurants in Italy and it means cover charge. It covers the costs for tableware, table linen, and bread. So only trattorie, pizzerie, and restaurants charge you with it. Or places where you sit and have a meal (or at least a course). Some dishes were a bit pricey for us, maybe those were standard prices for the locals, or Italians. The staff was overall polite, one of them was a bit loud in his addressing. The ambient was cosy, one can say, yet nothing much spectacular. The bistrot is located on a corner, in the passages on Via Po. The Aperol Spritz was very good but not served in the...

TOURIST TRAP! This is a cheap a.s place for bus tourists and similiar tourists who don’t differentiate from food and dog food. I am really in doubt if the dogs would eat this “food”..maybe they would but it would be their last meal on planet Earth. What they call food here should be forbidden to serve by law. Like if you serve this and call it food for humans you should get shot immediately by a firing squad or by Kim Jong Uns space rocket. THIS IS SH*T! First of all we wanted to enter and the entrance was closed while there were people inside..we knocked and a person came and opened and also immediately closed after us. Took us to the upper floor where we were alone and ordered two dishes - Vitello tonato and Spaghetti bolognese. I will post the pictures below of the corpse which they call “food” :) Vitello tonnato was made with almost only mayonaisse and the meat was disgusting! Beef in Bolognese was pastured by Napoleon itself…the stench of the old beef overtook the whole restaurant. I think they dry aged it a bit too long. Probably a century too long. DO NOT GO, DO NOT ORDER, STAY AWAY AS FAR...

We came to this restaurant after the good reviews but unfortunately was a total fail for me. It's small, noisy, on the street (at least now in september). The list with food contained just few plates and not all you can see in the other reviews. Ladies from inside were very nice and offered to cook me some carbonara because I wanted to eat pasta. But the carbonara was way to salty, I could not eat it. My husband finished it because of hunger... I had to go to eat something else...