Food and drink
A short walk away in the village you’ll find the pastry shop for breakfast, the bakery, the delicatessen, two restaurants and two pizzerias; by car, the restaurants of the villages around us and the Erbaluce wineries. On Fridays and Saturdays it is best to book everywhere, and many restaurants are closed on Mondays: the up-to-date opening hours are on each place’s Google Maps page.
On foot
You’ll find breakfast, bread, a delicatessen and dinner within a 12-minute walk of the house.
3 minutes on foot
Pastry shop and café · San Giorgio Canavese · inexpensive
This is the village’s historic pastry shop, opened in 1896, and it serves breakfast in the morning. It makes biscotti della Duchessa, torcetti sangiorgesi and paste di meliga.
Worth trying: the torcetti sangiorgesi.
3 minutes on foot
Bakery · San Giorgio Canavese · inexpensive
The bakery has belonged to the Atzeni family since 1977. The bread to ask for is the Gran Forno, a loaf sixty centimetres long.
3 minutes on foot
Delicatessen and cured meats · San Giorgio Canavese · mid-range
It sells cured meats, cheeses, ready-cooked dishes from the hot counter and wines from the Canavese, all to take away.
3 minutes on foot
Piedmontese trattoria · San Giorgio Canavese · mid-range
This is the trattoria on the square, in the same family for more than eighty years. On the menu: carne cruda, vitello tonnato, agnolotti in the juices from the roast and fritto misto.
5 minutes on foot
Takeaway pizzeria · San Giorgio Canavese · inexpensive
It makes Neapolitan pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, to take away or delivered to your door.
8 minutes on foot
Pizzeria · San Giorgio Canavese · inexpensive
It is mainly a takeaway: it has only a few seats and it delivers.
11 minutes on foot
Fish restaurant · San Giorgio Canavese · upper mid-range
The village’s fish restaurant is on the bypass.
12 minutes on foot
Pastry shop, gelateria and restaurant · San Giorgio Canavese · mid-range
It has been making pastries since 1970 and also has a gelateria and a restaurant. There is table service from breakfast through to the evening gelato, and it is also a place for a drink before dinner.
By car
You’ll find the trattorias of Agliè, 6 minutes away, and further afield the restaurants in the Michelin Guide.
6 minutes by car
Piedmontese trattoria · Agliè · mid-range
In the centre of Agliè, near the castle, it serves traditional Piedmontese food.
10 minutes by car
Restaurant, wine bar and records · Rivarolo Canavese · mid-range
It is a restaurant, wine bar and record shop in one, open in the evening: you have dinner among the vinyl.
11 minutes by car
Contemporary cuisine · Rivarolo Canavese · upper mid-range
The Bronzino brothers opened it in 2023: Stefano is in the kitchen, Andrea front of house.
12 minutes by car
Restaurant · Rivarolo Canavese · mid-range
It is on the road between Rivarolo and Ivrea, and the chef is Giuseppe Randisi.
12 minutes by car
Traditional restaurant · Castellamonte · upper mid-range
It has been on the square in Castellamonte since 1916, serving its Tre Re agnolotti in the juices from the roast, finanziera and flambéed zabaglione with torcetti. Since 2024 there has also been the Bottega dei Tre Re, next to the restaurant.
13 minutes by car
Restaurant · Caluso · upper mid-range
Mariangela Susigan leads the kitchen of this restaurant, in Caluso since 1977: the Michelin Green Star recognises her work on sustainability.
You can book on the website.
15 minutes by car
Restaurant · Mercenasco · mid-range
It is in a villa standing on its own in the countryside and has a wine list of more than 350 wines. The dishes include fritto misto alla piemontese and, on winter weekends, bagna caoda.
18 minutes by car
Restaurant and antiques · Cuorgnè · inexpensive
It is a restaurant inside an antiques shop, with seats for thirty. It is open for lunch only.
With so few tables, book ahead.
24 minutes by car
Restaurant · Ivrea · mid-range
It has been in Via Arduino, in the centre of Ivrea, since 2011. At lunch there is a set menu.
32 minutes by car
Michelin-starred restaurant · San Maurizio Canavese · upper mid-range
In 2026 the Michelin Guide confirmed its star for the twentieth year running. Igor Macchia is in the kitchen.
32 minutes by car
Pizzeria · San Maurizio Canavese · mid-range
Open in the evening only. The pizza dough, made with stone-ground type 1 flours, rises for 24 hours and bakes in an oven fired with beech wood.
37 minutes by car
Osteria · Cavaglià · mid-range
It is an osteria in the province of Biella, with a large wine list. In the kitchen Paolo Mazzia works mainly with goose, and Monica Grillo is front of house.
40 minutes by car
Hotel and restaurant · Traversella · inexpensive
This is the Arsini family’s hotel and restaurant, in the Valchiusella, in the village whose iron mines closed in 1971.
7 minutes by car
Wine bar and kitchen · Agliè · mid-range
In the centre of Agliè, this wine bar serves seasonal, local dishes with wines from the Canavese and Piedmont.
Pastries, gelato and bread
Every town has its own sweet speciality: in Agliè the torcetti, in Ivrea the Torta 900.
6 minutes by car
Pastry shop · Agliè · inexpensive
This is the pastry shop of the torcetti di Agliè, invented here in the 1930s by Francesco Pana, who was granted the Savoy coat of arms. The Alfonsi family took it over in the 1960s, and in 2006 their torcetti made it to the Turin Winter Olympics.
11 minutes by car
Gelateria · Rivarolo Canavese · inexpensive
It makes artisan gelato in Corso Torino, in Rivarolo.
Worth trying: the Regina delle Langhe flavour.
25 minutes by car
Pastry shop · Ivrea · inexpensive
This is the home of the Torta 900, created in Ivrea at the end of the 19th century, with its trademark registered in 1964: cocoa sponge and chocolate cream, filled to order.
25 minutes by car
Bakery · Pont Canavese · inexpensive
Bakers since 1965, they make the products that carry the De.C.O. of Pont Canavese, its municipal designation of origin: mica, biciulan and hand-stretched grissini.
11 minutes by car
Farmers’ market · Rivarolo Canavese
On Friday afternoons, at the Spazio Elementare, local producers sell their own produce direct.
12 minutes by car
Stone mill · Candia Canavese
Since 1961 the Roccati family has been stone-grinding maize from the Canavese, including Pignoletto rosso, and other cereals.
19 minutes by car
Goat’s cheeses · Pavone Canavese
The farm has a dairy making raw-milk goat’s cheese, and its farm shop sells tomini, ricotta, toma and a blue goat’s cheese.
The wineries
San Giorgio lies inside the Erbaluce di Caluso area and has 3 wineries; further north, just below the Aosta Valley, the Nebbiolo of Carema grows on pergolas held up by stone columns. The wineries welcome visitors by appointment, and for a glass of wine in the evening there are Vinileria in Rivarolo and Giovetti in the village.
Erbaluce di Caluso spumante
at least 15 months, on the lees
Carema
at least 2 years, including 12 months in wood
Caluso passito
at least 3 years
Carema riserva
at least 3 years, including 12 months in wood
Caluso passito riserva
at least 4 years
10 minutes on foot
Winery · San Giorgio Canavese
The Orsolani family has been making wine in the village since 1894. The Gambero Rosso guide gave its Tre Bicchieri award to their Caluso Vintàge 2020.
It is best to book for a visit and tasting.
3 minutes by car
Winery · San Giorgio Canavese
It produces Erbaluce, passito, Chatus, which is a rare red grape variety, and a sparkling wine that spends more than 60 months on the lees. It also welcomes educational visits, as a teaching farm.
3 minutes by car
Winery · San Giorgio Canavese
Since 1985 it has made Erbaluce in all its forms, and in that same year it produced its first traditional-method sparkling wine. Misobolo comes from the oldest vineyard; Calliope is a sparkling wine that spends 48 months on the lees.
Guided visits by appointment only.
4 minutes by car
Winery and farm stay · Cuceglio
As well as cellar visits and tastings, the estate has the Cascina Guie farm stay, with twelve rooms.
Book ahead for tastings.
13 minutes by car
Regional wine centre · Caluso
In the 17th-century cellars of Palazzo Valperga di Masino you’ll find the wines of more than forty producers from the Turin area.
Tastings with the sommelier are by booking only, at weekends.
21 minutes by car
Winery · Ivrea
It is a historic name in Carema wine: its Etichetta Nera is released only in the best vintages.
26 minutes by car
Cooperative winery · Carema
The cooperative, founded in 1960 and now with 101 members, is one of the three producers in the Slow Food Presidium for Carema. The Etichetta Bianca is its riserva.
31 minutes by car
Winery · Piverone
This small winery on the Serra was founded in 1992 and makes Le Chiusure, Tredicimesi and the passito Sole d’Inverno.
12 minutes by car
Winery · Candia Canavese
This is Roberto Crosio’s winery, in Candia, and in 2025 Gambero Rosso placed his Erbalus 2023 among the ten best Erbaluce wines.
In Turin
For a day in Turin we recommend 5 places in the centre, from bicerin to the market.
35 minutes by car
Markets · Turin
The city council calls it the largest open-air market in Europe: more than 750 stalls around Piazza della Repubblica, and on Saturdays the Balôn flea market as well. Next door, the Mercato Centrale has shops and kitchens on three floors.
39 minutes by car
Historic café · Turin · inexpensive
Opposite the Consolata sanctuary since 1763, it serves bicerin: coffee, chocolate and cream, layered in the glass, to a recipe that the house keeps secret.
45 minutes by car
Michelin-starred restaurant · Turin · expensive
Opened in 1757 opposite Palazzo Carignano, it now has Matteo Baronetto in the kitchen. On the menu are vitello tonnato, agnolotti alla piemontese and pigeon Marengo.
48 minutes by car
Historic café · Turin · inexpensive
It is a small Art Nouveau café under the arcades of Piazza Castello, where the tramezzino sandwich was born in the 1920s.
49 minutes by car
Café and confectioner’s · Turin · mid-range
They have been confectioners since 1858, and since 1875 they have had their café in the Galleria Subalpina, where you’ll find gianduiotti, cremini and hot chocolate.
The specialities
The white wine of these hills, made from Erbaluce grapes only, in four styles: still, traditional-method sparkling (at least 15 months on the lees), passito (at least 36 months of ageing) and passito riserva (48). The DOCG area includes San Giorgio too.
A mountain wine, 85 to 100% Nebbiolo, grown only in the municipality of Carema, between 300 and 600 metres: the vines grow on ‘topie’, pergolas held up by ‘pilun’, stone columns. It ages for at least two years, the riserva for three.
Piedmont’s filled pasta, served in the juices from the roast: the trattoria in the village makes them, and so does the Tre Re in Castellamonte.
The dish of the cold months: garlic, anchovies and oil, kept hot in a fujot, the pot you dip the vegetables into.
Teardrop-shaped biscuits of flour, butter and sugar, created in Agliè in the 1930s; in April the town holds a festival in their honour.
This is Ivrea’s cake, made by Pasticceria Balla with cocoa sponge and chocolate cream, and the recipe remains a secret.
A salami of potatoes and pork, a traditional product of Piedmont, made from October to March. Pavone Canavese has registered it among its De.C.O. products, its municipal designation of origin.
Biscuits of maize flour and butter, a traditional product of Piedmont: in San Giorgio, Roletti makes them.
Coffee, chocolate and cream sit in layers in the glass: in Turin it has been served since 1763 by the café that bears its name.
Through the year
When each speciality is around, and when it’s worth ringing ahead. The whole year in the Canavese is on the page about the area.
The torcetto festival
April
Every spring Agliè celebrates the town’s own biscuit.
The Mercato della Terra in San Giorgio
May
Once a year the village hosts the Slow Food producers’ market.
Fresh piattella beans
July to September
The Cortereggio bean is harvested from late July to late September; you’ll find it dried all year round.
The Erbaluce harvest
August to October
It begins in late August with the grapes for the sparkling wine and goes on until October.
The grape festivals of Caluso and Carema
September
They are held in the second half of September, with parades through the streets of the two towns.
White truffle
October to January
In Piedmont the truffle season runs from 1 October to 31 January.
Salam ’d patata
October to March
This potato and pork salami is made in the cold months, and in January Settimo Rottaro holds a festival in its honour.
Bagna caoda
November to February
In winter you’ll find it in the trattorias.
One last thing
To book a table or visit a winery, send us a message: we’ll tell you how to go about it.
Dimora Berchiatti can be hired for weddings and celebrations, and on the first floor it has an apartment for anyone who comes to explore the Canavese. The venue · The apartment