Bice - BAGOLINO

Very tasty panini and a very friendly service. Again any time ...

Passing along the main road I stop to drink a latte, what can I say, not particularly good but it often happens that you don't drink a memorable coffee, furthermore the milk foam was put in a rough way to say the least, but paying 1.50 euros at the counter made me feel seemed absolutely excessive, for no other reason, Lodrone is certainly not comparable to the center of Venice, Florence or Milan where I usually pay less at the counter anyway. I would have also happily eaten a shortcrust pastry but only one tart was available at the price of 5 euros a slice.

Very characteristic for the furnishings and air that you breathe. Looks like it's 700. although very expensive the location remains a very recommended destination for a break during a walk in the center.

The local owes its name to the famous and homonymous drink, become a real institution for tourists and torino. the smallest and oldest coffee in Italy, of 1763, overlooks a beautiful square and its floor has been trampled by illustrious names such as the patriot leather silvio, the composer giacomo puccini, the philosopher nietzsche, the minister cavour, the poet gozzano, the writers dumas, calvino and soldiers and the queen of the theater of the magazine wanda osiris. Although in the past it was inconvenience for women to attend public places, the goodness of bicerin has led them to win every social resistance. Moreover, from the middle of the xix century the local homonym is owned and is managed by women, who were able to preserve the original appearance, consecrating it as a reference point of the torineness. entering is equivalent to immersing in the past, since little has changed in the boiserie, the solid wood bench is always the same and also the mirrors show signs of oxidation typical of the time. the size of the room is as small: Eight marble tables with padded benches are flanked along the walls, with a soft light radiated by the showcase. the famous drink is still served in a transparent glass and without handles, so as to show the layers from which it is composed: the dense upper part of white cream floats on the hot coffee liquid, in turn lying on a chocolate base. do not wait, when you bring it to the lips, that the first layer is cold and refresh the mouth before the hot mixture enters. recommendation: never mix the ingredients of bicerine: they must amalgam in the mouth!

Ernest hemingway loved him so much that he put him among the one hundred things of the world he would save, alexandre dumas father speaks of it as one of the details not to lose of torino and also friedrich nietzsche appreciated it describing it as rovent, but delicious: I am talking about bicerina (in a blend of Piedmontese espresso coffee just made, chocolate and fresh cream of milk (but the top secret dosage served in high glasses or glass glasses, has become over the years (in the centuries) along with vermouth, the typical torino drink. where to get the best bicerin in the city? of course in the homonymous location in the district of the Roman quadrilateral of torino, in front of the entrance of the sanctuary of the consulate. small, low ceiling, creaking floor, old chairs in liberty style, counter and marble tables, dozens of glass vials with candy, the old staircase...if you want to see a historic place as they would have seen cauliur, films, pretty and embossed (all the former coffee habit without having changed almost anything, then the legendary bicernella place for you. authentic to 100,% if you get tone you can not miss.