Best Restaurants in Turin: Six Meals to Choose From

A pasta lunch on Via Lagrange and a long meal on Piazza Vittorio Veneto ask for different budgets and appetites. Choose Pastificio Defilippis for plin at lunch, or choose Del Cambio when the meal itself is the occasion. The six restaurants below cover those ends of the spectrum and the dinners between them, with a dish to seek at each.

Which restaurant fits your meal?

Restaurant	Area	What to order	Meal per person	Weekly closure
Pastificio Defilippis	Via Lagrange	Meat-and-vegetable plin	€20–35	None (restaurant)
Porto di Savona	Piazza Vittorio Veneto	Vitello tonnato	€35–55	None
Tre Galline	Quadrilatero Romano	—	€40–65	Sunday dinner; Sunday lunch Jun–Sep
Consorzio	Quadrilatero Romano	Finanziera ravioli, if offered	€40–65	Sunday and Monday
Scannabue	San Salvario	Tajarin with sausage and leek	€35–55	—
Del Cambio	Piazza Carignano	Three-part Piedmontese agnolotti	€120–200	Monday

For a generous piazza meal choose Porto di Savona. Tre Galline makes sense for a traditional dinner, while Consorzio invites a more exploratory one. Scannabue pairs pasta with Piedmontese wine in San Salvario. Reserve a table for a planned dinner, especially at Del Cambio, rather than relying on a walk-in. These are restaurant meals: for a shorter seated stop, consider historic cafés for coffee in Turin instead.

Pastificio Defilippis: a pasta lunch

Pastificio Defilippis makes pasta on Via Lagrange and serves it at tables alongside the shop. Its pasta-making dates to 1872. For lunch, try ravioli del plin, small pinched ravioli: the menu lists a meat-and-vegetable filling with melted butter and sage. It is a particularly direct way to make pasta the focus of a meal, rather than ordering several courses around it.

The restaurant serves lunch and dinner every day, but the pasta shop closes on Mondays and throughout July and August. You can still have a restaurant lunch when the shop is shut. On Sundays, dinner service ends at 22:00 rather than 22:30, so arrive earlier if you want an evening meal.

Porto di Savona: a classic piazza meal

Porto di Savona faces the broad Piazza Vittorio Veneto, giving you a place to settle in for a Piedmontese meal rather than a quick plate of pasta. Order vitello tonnato, veal served with tuna sauce, which appears on its menu. This is the choice when you want a classic dish and time for a longer lunch or dinner near the Po end of the city centre.

Lunch and dinner are served daily, with a longer lunch window at weekends. That makes a Saturday or Sunday piazza lunch easier to arrange if your morning runs on. Allow room in the budget for a second course or wine if you plan to linger.

Tre Galline: old-school Piedmontese cooking

Tre Galline occupies a Via Bellezia inn in the Quadrilatero Romano. Its account of its past points to an inn of the same name mentioned in 18th-century novels, a distinctive setting for a traditional Piedmontese dinner. Choose a Piedmontese dish from the menu rather than planning on bollito misto: the mixed-boiled-meat dish pictured here is not on the current menu.

Weekday service is for dinner, with lunch added on Saturdays. Sunday lunch is served from October to May, 12:30–14:30, so for a summer Sunday meal, pick another restaurant. You can still choose Tre Galline for Saturday lunch or dinner, or for a weekday dinner in the old centre.

Consorzio: adventurous regional cooking

Ristorante Consorzio, on Via Monte di Pietà, is for a diner happy to encounter less familiar Piedmontese cooking. It participates in the Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance, which connects cooks working with regional food traditions and producers. If finanziera ravioli appear on the menu, try them for their filling inspired by the Piedmontese offal dish. Otherwise choose another regional dish from the day’s menu.

The restaurant sits close to the Quadrilatero Romano, so a meal here can follow time spent in the old-centre streets without a separate cross-town trip. It is a more curious choice for someone who wants the cooking to be the discovery rather than to repeat a familiar pasta order. Sunday and Monday closures rule out the start of the week for this dinner.

Scannabue: a San Salvario bistrot

Scannabue sits on Largo Saluzzo in San Salvario, a useful choice when dinner calls for pasta and a glass of regional red wine. Its listed tajarin, thin Piedmontese egg noodles, are cut by knife and served with a sausage and leek ragù. Pick a Dolcetto or Barbera from the Piedmontese wines on the list to make the meal about this region without committing to a formal tasting menu.

Scannabue holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, a recognition for good cooking at relatively moderate prices, rather than a star. Come for a neighbourhood bistrot dinner with a clearly identifiable pasta order. The Largo Saluzzo location also puts you in a different part of Turin from the old-centre restaurants, so it suits an evening already spent around San Salvario.

Del Cambio: a historic occasion meal

Ristorante Del Cambio makes a meal on Piazza Carignano an occasion in its own right. The dining room began as Caffè del Cambio in 1757, and Count Camillo Benso di Cavour later dined here as prime minister. Today the main restaurant has one Michelin star. Its menu’s three-part Piedmontese agnolotti dish includes a del plin version, giving you a regional point of reference within a formal meal.

Budget for the main restaurant, not the other rooms under the Del Cambio name. This is the place to linger over a celebration rather than fit a quick lunch between sights. Lunch is a Friday-to-Sunday option. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday, and Monday is closed. Choose the sitting before you plan the rest of your day around Piazza Carignano.

Sources & fact-checking

Checks against the sources below cover: opening hours, key figures, and closures.

• Food and Company — opening hours
• Food & Company — key figures
• Fondazione Slow Food — key figures
• Menu – Scannabue Ristorante
• I Vini — Scannabue
• MICHELIN Guide — key figures
• Pastificio Defilippis — key figures
• Del Cambio — opening hours
• Ristorante Del Cambio — key figures
• The MICHELIN Guide — key figures
• Ristorante Tre Galline — opening hours
• Tre Galline — closures
• Tre Galline — key figures