Eating at Mercato Centrale Turin

Mercato Centrale Turin suits an informal meal when your companions want different dishes but still want to eat together. Inside the Porta Palazzo market complex, you can choose a bakery snack, pizza by the slice, a bowl of ramen or gelato without committing everyone to the same menu.

Raffaele D’Errico, Carlo Maritano, Akira Yoshida and Rea Silvia Gullì offer four distinct reasons to stop. Choose according to your appetite: something small to take away, a savoury counter meal or a sweet finish.

Choosing a counter meal

Counter	Area	Order	Typical spend per person
Raffaele D’Errico	Indoor food hall	Steamed bombolone	€3–€5
Carlo Maritano	Indoor food hall	Margherita slices	€5–€10
Ramen Bar Akira	Indoor food hall	Black Shoyu ramen	€13–€18
Moou	Indoor food hall	Gelato in a house-made wafer cone	€4–€6

Mercato Centrale Torino occupies the former Tettoia dell’Orologio, the covered clock hall in Piazza della Repubblica. This is an indoor food hall, distinct from the surrounding Porta Palazzo market stalls. It is worth a stop if you want to combine exploring the market area with a flexible meal, rather than choose one restaurant menu.

The estimates above cover the stated food order, not drinks or sides. A larger helping of pizza, dumplings alongside ramen or a drink raises the bill. A small snack is the least expensive way to eat here, while a noodle bowl is a fuller meal with a higher spend.

Order and pay at each food counter, then carry your meal to the communal Piazza tables. This also applies at Akira: food is not brought to your table. Companions can buy from different stalls and sit together. Choose your food and find shared seating rather than expect a reserved restaurant table.

Order drinks separately from staff at your table, paying immediately, or through the table QR code. The restaurant, pizzeria dining room and fish-shop dining room instead have table service. For a planned lunch or dinner beyond the hall, sit-down restaurants in Turin offer a different kind of meal.

Raffaele D’Errico’s bakery

At Il Pane di Raffaele D’Errico, choose a steamed bombolone for a small bakery snack. A bombolone is an Italian doughnut, and bomboloni is the plural. The steamed version makes this a more specific stop than simply picking up any sweet pastry.

Bread is baked in view of customers, so the counter also gives you something to watch while choosing. D’Errico shops daily at the Porta Palazzo stalls, finding fresh ingredients and inspiration for his bread and pizza. His baking is closely connected to the market outside the hall.

Eat your snack in the hall if you want a seated pause, or carry it away to continue exploring the area. It suits a light appetite without turning the stop into a full meal.

Carlo Maritano’s pizza

Carlo Maritano’s La Pizza is a savoury choice you can size to your appetite. Start with Margherita, the classic tomato, mozzarella and basil pizza. The counter serves pizza al taglio, meaning pizza by the slice, so the amount you order determines whether this is a snack or your main meal.

Choose a smaller portion if you want to leave room for dessert, or order more if pizza is the meal itself. The format lets you decide at the counter rather than commit to a whole pizza before you have seen the selection.

At weekends, fried pizza gives you a different order to try. It is a reason to choose La Pizza for something other than the familiar Margherita, while keeping the same informal counter-meal occasion.

Akira Yoshida’s ramen

Ramen Bar Akira, Akira Yoshida’s counter, suits a substantial noodle meal rather than a bite between market stalls. Choose Black Shoyu ramen as your main order. Shoyu means soy sauce, a useful distinction when choosing among the ramen styles.

Vegetarian ramen is another menu choice. If you want an accompanying dish, add gyōza, Japanese dumplings, rather than treating them as part of the bowl order. Choosing just the ramen keeps both the meal and the spending simple, while sides make it a larger lunch or dinner.

The counter opens every day, so it is an option throughout the week. A bowl suits a seated pause when you want to make lunch the focus of your market visit.

Moou: Rea Silvia Gullì’s gelato

At Rea Silvia Gullì’s Moou, choose gelato in a house-made wafer cone for dessert or a separate sweet stop. The cone is part of the attraction here, not merely something to hold the ice cream: the wafers are made on the spot.

Choose between cinnamon and Madagascar vanilla cones. That choice lets you decide what accompanies the gelato as well as which gelato variety to order. If the wafer is what drew you to Moou, ask for your preferred cone before settling the rest of the order.

Moou offers both milk-based and water-based gelato varieties, so you can choose the kind of dessert you fancy. If you have an allergy, tell the counter staff before choosing both your gelato and your cone. Treat the two parts of the order together when explaining what you need.

Food hall opening hours

Weekly opening

Every day

Tuesday–Thursday and Sunday

08:00–22:30

Friday

08:00–23:30

Saturday

08:00–24:00

Mercato Centrale is at Piazza della Repubblica 25, within Porta Palazzo. These are the building’s public hours, but individual food counters have their own service windows. Time your meal around your chosen counter’s hours, not just the hall’s opening.

Combine a meal with exploring the surrounding market area, leaving yourself time outside as well as at the tables. For a visit centred on food, decide whether you want a snack during your market wander or a fuller meal afterwards.

Sources & fact-checking

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

• Come funziona | Mercato Centrale Torino
• Ramen Bar Akira — opening hours
• il Ramen e i Gyōza – Akira Yoshida | Mercato Centrale
• Rea Silvia Gullì’s Gelato | Mercato Centrale Turin
• Mercato Centrale Torino — opening hours
• La Pizza – Carlo Maritano | Mercato Centrale
• Carlo Maritano’s Pizza | Mercato Centrale Turin
• Our Turin Market: How it Works | Mercato Centrale Turin