Turin offers characteristic proposals: different cuisines of the world meet in unusual and unexpected marriages in order to satisfy any palate and also any budget.

The different proposals offered and the great number of restaurants in the city, can disorientating tourist. An advise that we want give you, is to start taste some dishes of Piedmont tradition in the various typical inns, such as, "cold veal with tuna sauce", or "agnolotti del plin with roast meat sauce", or "bagna caöda", or "risotto with barolo wine sauce", or "mixed boiled", or "braised meat in barolo wine sauce" followed by desserts like "bounet", "baci di dama" and "gianduia cake".
Very good references are the following books: "Piedmont: Traditional Cuisine from the Piedmontese Provinces" (edition by Time-Life Books - price $2.45) and "Italian Cuisine: An Essential Reference with More than 300 Recipes" (edited by Tony May - price $20.37), or you can consult the http://www.cookaround.com website.

For those who like home-made cooking, there are many different regional alternatives: from venetian to sicilian cuisine passing through Umbria, Tuscany, Sardinia and Campania.

Do not forget ethnic cuisine, that in the last years has had a strong growth, and that suggests gastronomic flavours from different worldwide countries such as Morocco, Greece, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

In the list below we have quoted some of the best locals in the city, showing addresses, phone numbers, kind of cuisine, websites etc.
We don't have had the pretence to be esaustive listing all the restaurants or inns in the city, but we have wanted give you a panoramic of more famous locals to orientating tourist.

We want to remember that some restaurants are considered luxury establishments and with prices higher thah other, like the famous Ristorante del Cambio, where had dinner Cavour, Rattazzi and Lamarmora, and declared historical establishment by the Associazione Locali Storici d'Italia.
Also famous and of high quality are: "Al Gatto Nero", "Mare Nostrum", "Caval d'Brons", "Montecarlo", "La Porta Rossa" and "Vintage".

For those who love good cooking, we suggest this guide: "Gambero Rosso Rome: Restaurants, Trattorias, Pizzerias, Wine Bars, Snacks, Wine Shops, Gourmet Foods, Home & Table, Hotels", edited by Clara Barra, Stefano Bonilli, and Giancarlo Perrotta - price $165.15.

A few restaurants have a link called "Go to details" that leads to a customized page with detailed information about them.