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Baratti & Milano
One of the historic cafés in which you can taste chocolate in all its guises is Baratti & Milano, with a stunning interior dating back to 1858.
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Caffè Elena
Wood-panelled café once patronised by Nietzsche, these days with Starck-designed chairs.
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Caffè Mulassano
Art Nouveau jewel, with a marble floor, mirrored walls, a coffered ceiling - and just four tables.
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Caffè Torino
Chandelier-lit showpiece opened in 1903. A brass plaque of the city's emblem, a bull (Torino in Italian means 'little bull'), is embedded in the pavement out front; rub your shoe across it for good luck.
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Combal Zero
Combine the trip out to Castello di Rivoli with a meal at its outstanding Michelin-starred restaurant, which features innovative creations such as a 'cyberegg' (caviar, vodka, egg yolk, shallots and pepper wrapped in cellophane) and Piedmontese classics such as truffle risotto. Bookings essential.
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Fiorio
Wonderfully formal 1780 café with creaking wooden floors and faded crimson wall coverings, best known for its creamy, classic ice creams.
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Grom
The first-ever outlet of this Slow Food-affiliated ice cream, renowned for organic flavours such as green tea, was started here in Turin. There's another branch at Via Accademia delle Scienze 4, which keeps the same hours.
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Kuoki
Head around the corner from the Mole Antonelliana to this intriguing spot run by Giorgio Armani's former personal chef, Toni Vitiello. At high communal tables, you can dine on Italian blackboard specials, or sushi bar twists such as a Kuoki roll (salmon or tuna with ricotta, olive oil and basil). Toni's other fusion creations include chicken in Coca-Cola with orange peel.
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Lobelix
Beneath the trees on Piazza Savoia, the terrace here is a favourite place for an aperitivo - its buffet banquet is one of Turin's most extravagant.
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Mare Nostrum
Appropriately enough, Turin's top fish restaurant sits on a street meaning 'fisherman'. Mare Nostrum is an upmarket, lip-smacking choice which uses only the freshest of ingredients in its carefully thought-out menu.
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Peyrano
The city's most famous chocolate house is Peyrano, creator of Dolci Momenti a Torino (Sweet Moments in Turin) and grappini (chocolates filled with grappa).
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Pizzeria Stars & Roses
The list of pizzas on offer at this stylish place is lengthy and adventurous, with toppings including salmon and whisky or caviar and vodka. Each of its rooms is themed according to colour (red, white, silver, pink, blue and black), so you can choose to suit the occasion.
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Restaurant del Cambio
Crimson velvet, glittering chandeliers, baroque mirrors and an air of timeless elegance greet you at this grand dame of the Turin dining scene, once patronised by Count Cavour and other leading lights. It first opening its doors in 1757, and classic Piedmont cuisine still dominates the menu. Bookings and smart dress are advised.
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San Tommaso 10
Coffee aficionados should make a beeline for this little place, the original Lavazza coffee house. It offers a staggering assortment of inventive flavoured and spiced coffees, plus the regular stuff. If in doubt over what to choose, try the house speciality, the espresso, a curiously thick drink that you eat yoghurt-like with a spoon. The Lavazza family started roasting coffee here in 1900. Now modernised, the café offers a staggering variety of flavours as well as an excellent restaurant.
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Sfashion
Turinese comic TV presenter Piero Chiamretti's latest culinary offering is this funky postmodern set-up with retro toys adorning its outlandish interior, and dishes such as mussels in tomato sauce or penne with zucchini.
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