Wonderful drive up to this charming village cafe. So far our best espresso experience yet!read more

Great local sourced fare. Beautiful presentation and a good selection of local wines by the glass…read more Friendly staff, very helpful despite our language differences.

While walking around the beautiful little city of Alba waiting for Siesta to end and restaurants to…read moreopen, we stumbled upon Risie for a bottle of wine and some appetizers. They have a nice selection of wines to choose from. We chose a nice barolo - be aware that the dining in price is more than the take home price! Service was great (Northern Italians were so friendly!) and we ordered a small charcuterie of meats and cheese & cheese fondue with grilled veggies. Not the best food ever, but it definitely helped to fill our bellies as we waited for dinner! Definitely recommend Risie if you want to sit outdoors, relax, and drink some nice wine during Siesta time!

It is one of the best places to serve breakfast in Turin. There is not much variety. A simple…read moreplace in terms of furniture, but the food and coffee are worth trying.

Great spot for a quiet ready or a tasty breakfast. I needed to do some writing and the owner let…read moreme sit in a nice table by the corner with good lighting and I had a nice (not-Italian, mind you, but was still very happy with it) breakfast of ham and eggs and toast. Also had a nice cappucino and some mate as well. The owner's English is quite good and he's very friendly. Just keep in mind this is not a "hangout" spot during mealtimes. There's not enough seats for that. Buy some food - you'll love it.

This place is where all the local go! I got a delicious cup of Bicerin, the drink of Turin! It is a…read moremixture of coffee, hot chocolate, and cream. We got the Bicerin a couple of times in the city and this one you could taste the coffee the best. It was not overly sweet but special. While we were sitting down at a table we saw 3 different groups of people come in and have their shot of espresso. It definitely is a different kind of atmosphere in a Italy coffee shop. If you want to do as the Italian do, GO HERE!

This sweet little cafe is only slightly out of the way behind some stores on the Via Garibaldi…read more But the service is great and the Bicerin is really good. They have some good pastries too.

For our first morning in Genoa, hubby was hoping for what he's used to...eggs, potatoes, and bacon…read moreor sausage. What we soon realized is that breakfast in Italy primarily consists of pastries and coffee. They definitely don't eat heavy breakfast foods like Americans do which is why we had a hard time, at least in a smaller city like Genoa, to find what we were looking for. Pastries it is. TripAdvisor seems to be king in Europe...Yelp is rarely used. Caffetteria Orefici was not listed on Yelp but hubby found them on TripAdvisor. This little cafe is a one-man operated shop with only a few small tables as well as a narrow counter. English is not spoken or understood here so we had to point to what we wanted. Behind the counter were about 5-6 different kinds of pastries, about 2 of each. They looked old and dry so we thought they were just for display. After picking a few items, we were surprised he pulled them out from behind the counter. There was a menu on the wall for drinks. Hubby ordered a cappuccino and being that I'm pregnant, I selected a decaf option, the cappuccino decaffeinato-d'orzo-ginseng-soia. The cappuccinos were delicious and pastries were good. The strawberry croissant with cream is what I ordered for myself and it was the best of all pastries we got. The cream was so good! I believe it may be freshly made. Our 3 pastries and 2 drinks cost €6 which is about $6.50. Such a great deal!

it is a great little restaurant on the slopes Staff is…read moreextraordinary professional and friendly for such a restaurant. Prices are high but thats normal on the slopes - food is great Honestly - this restaurant is the best thing in Vars - a station I am not very convinced of.

Il ristorante MadamaDoré di Imperia è un vero gioiello per gli amanti della cucina ligure…read more L'atmosfera è calda e accogliente, ideale per una cena romantica o un pranzo in famiglia. Il menu offre piatti freschi e gustosi, con un'ottima selezione di specialità di pesce e ingredienti locali. Il servizio è attento e cordiale, rendendo l'esperienza ancora più piacevole. In sintesi, MadamaDoré è una scelta eccellente per chi cerca autenticità e qualità nella cucina ligure. Assolutamente da provare!

Stumbled across this cafe and what a gem! Lovely and welcoming service, excellent coffee and sliced…read moremelon and focaccia was served with our order of pear juice, coffee and beer. My only complaint is that we just found this place - and we are leaving in 2 days... We would have become regulars here - do stop by this cafe!!

Fabulous folks! Found them right after I landed at my hotel across the street. We beat the language…read morebarrier and successfully was able to order a slice of margarita pizza even though they were all sold out. They made a Piece special for me. Excellent!

This place had excellent service and the food was great. We've been traveling Europe for the past…read more6 weeks and have been eating out every day. This was easily our top 3 best meals. Thanks for the great service.

I depend on Yelp reviews to help me make a better decision. I realize there were only eight and…read moresome from a long time ago, Sadly, I found the food to be very disappointing. Perhaps it was just the kind of food and other people would like it. We had the vegetable salad, which was apparently grilled vegetables in a mayonnaise base. It reminded me of egg salad. We had the mushroom risotto, which was actually pretty good, but I had it a few nights earlier, at another restaurant where I thought it was exceptional. Finally, we had the braised beef in a Barolo wine sauce. Sorry, not good at all. We had the cheese tray, which was delightful. We had the best bottle of wine I've ever had. The service was fabulous. Our server was so kind and had everything split for us. I really wanted to like the food and maybe it was just a bad night. I thought the ambience in the front of the restaurant was more Italian authentic. The back was a little more eclectic but still nice. My favorite part was a bottle of wine that our server recommended and the complementary appetizer they gave us. The cheese selection was great. If I lived in the area, I would definitely come back and try them again because I think they just had a bad night.

Okay we have not been here since 2009, well before I was Yelping! Here is what I wrote on my blog…read moreback then: A few weeks ago we were in Barolo, Italy and enjoyed a fabulous meal at a restaurant called La Cantinetta. The food was great and the service fun and relaxed. Here are a few photos from that evening. We ordered the antipasti tasting which happened to be five courses of starters. We expected a lot of local cured meats and pickled veggies - we were very pleasantly surprised that was not the case! The first course or amuse bouche was a very thin slice of local salami and small blini sized frittata of greens - crispy on the outside yet tender and with great flavor. We didn't think to photograph the dishes until the next course arrived - a rabbit mousse with caramelized red onions and toasted brioche. OMG! Heavenly, and for those of you squeemish about rabbit just think of it as a chicken with fur. It was amazing - creamy, savory, sweet and crunchy! he next course was delicious vitello tonnato. Have always shied away from this dish thinking it was too strange a pairing. Well I was wrong. A tender, perfectly roasted slice of veal with a tuna and caper sauce. We had to have seconds, hence the dirty plate in the picture! That was followed by a famous raviolo filled with verdura (chopped mixed greens), a soft egg yolk and topped with Parmigiano Reggiano and browned butter. Amazing that such simple and pure flavors could be so response provoking. The mmm's and oh my's kept flying out of our mouths as we devoured this delicacy. To bring it to the next level they offered a crispy asparagus tart with a fonduta sauce. It's hard to describe how perfectly crisp and yet light the pastry shell was on this dish. The cheesy sauce was a perfect smooth and silky accompaniment to the crisp and tender asparagus in the tart. To amaze one even further a dish of spinach gnocci with gorgonzola sauce was beyond description. Surely we will never have gnocci this light and tender without it being at all wet as most gnocci tend to be. We had braced ourselves for knock your head off gorgonzola flavor only to find that the chef used a slight hand with such a potentially overwhelming cheese. A dish / the local classic - ravioli al plin - were tasty but woefully inadequte next to that masterpiece of spinach gnocci. Regardless of the tastier dish on the table, all the ravioli al plin were consumed! We had no room for dessert and missed what appeared to be a delicious mixed berry tart that we saw them shaping in the pan just as we were arriving. We can't wait to return to the area in the future and experience another wonderful meal here.