from the guide IL GOLOSARIO the archives of ALEXALA
Agliano Terme
Panetteria Alciati
The Bread of Carlo Alberto, so called because it was offered to the Savoy troops as a one-course meal, is prepared with flour, anchovies and walnuts. There is no shortage of typical grissie, hand-stretched grissini and the …
Tortona
PANETTERIA BARABINO
It is said that the Brassadè were the favourite desserts of altar boys: thanks to their shape, they were hidden under the tunic, during very long processions, to be devoured at the first pangs of hunger. These doughnuts, …
Cabella Ligure
PANETTERIA BOGGERI FABIO
The closeness to Liguria can be perceived in the excellent focaccia: high and soft with inevitable oil eyes. Do not miss the bread (available in different types), which is fragrant and good even the day after, and the pizza. …
Nizza Monferrato
PANETTERIA CAREGLIO
Tradition and craft skills are at home here in Careglio: hazelnut cake, baci di dama and delicate amaretti. The specialities to try are the tasty grissini (classic or water-based), Grissia and Monferrina, typical and fragrant …
Canelli
PANETTERIA CORINO
Corino means above all hand-stretched grissini. Cooked in the wood-burning oven, they are made respecting the ancient recipe and represent the flagship product along with excellent bread, good enough to make the trip worthwhile.
Castellazzo Bormida
PANETTERIA FERRARIS
The oldest bakery in Castellazzo Bormida has been handcrafting these extraordinary, fragrant, crumbly, hand-stretched grissini (also available in stay-fresh packaging) for three generations. The Genoese focaccia, pizza and …
Casorzo Monferrato
PANETTERIA FRATELLI VILLA
Here, the Monferrina, classic bread from Asti, is fragrant and delicious: Franco and Pierpaolo prepare it by hand with flour, yeast and very little water, after two hours of rest it is cut and baked. They also sell hazelnut …
Asti
PANETTERIA GHERLONE GIORGIO
Paola and Giorgio Gherlone's bakery has a gem in those delicious crackers to eat as a snack or to accompany cured meat or cheese: in the classic version and then with olives, with chilli pepper, with rosemary, with onion, …
PANETTERIA PASTICCERIA F.LLI FERRARI
GAVI WINE CANESTRELLI. The careful management of the wood-burning oven is one of the secrets to propose good bread and crispy grissini. Ferrari also makes excellent biscuits, dry pastries and sweets of the local tradition: …
Alessandria
PANETTERIA PASTICCERIA SANDRONI
Highly recommended ‘lingue’, croissants, focacce (unmissable the one with onions and tomatoes) and bread made here from a mixture of flour which gives it a unique fragrance. Thus Altamura bread, but above all the Grissia …
Moncalvo
Panetteria Pasticceria Tappa
The pastries here are good with the very particular Finocchini, the ceremony cakes and hazelnut cakes, the brutti e buoni and the savoiardi. The hand-stretched grissini are excellent.
Camagna Monferrato
PANETTERIA REALE MASSIMILIANO
In a street in the centre of the village, Massimiliano Reale’s shop can be recognised for the lovely fragrance of bygone days. A stop is recommended for the Monferrine, the hard bread typical of the Monferrato area, the …
Rosignano Monferrato
PANIFICIO BISELLO
The gastronomic richness of Monferrato would not be complete without a great bread: it is the extraordinary Grissia, with its fragrant crust, prepared with soft wheat flour, oil, lard and yeast, a worthy match for the local …