LA CLOCHE 1967

Pinuccia Bello is known in the city as the last great lady of Turin's restaurant scene, because she has restored the family restaurant to its original lustre, while at the same time looking after Circolo, a Unione Industriale restaurant. At her side is a grown-up son: Riccardo, the creative young man of the family, who is transforming the restaurant into an interesting "Food System", with whom he shares all entrepreneurial activities as well as a passion for food. A passion inherited from his father Nino and mother Rosa, who opened La Cloche in 1967 with the desire to create a small restaurant seating around 20 where customers would feel at home, unaware of the praise they would soon receive. The choice of name was a suggestion from my friend Armando Testa: success and topicality. A meeting place for generations of Torinese, La Cloche, located on the Strada Nuova del Pino, is one of the best restaurants on our hill, the same one that has seen many sports and show-business personalities pass through its doors. The brigade was formed with Walter Eynard who, for a year, assisted the Bello family in the reopening of the restaurant, guiding it towards a more organic professional perspective, which continues to this day with satisfaction. The fusion of experience and the desire to astonish are the key to La Cloche's success. Nerone furniture, a Bluthner piano and a vintage atmosphere give La Cloche the ideal charm for relaxing over carefully prepared dishes and highly selected wines.