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  • Chocolatier Guido Gobino is housed in a listed building with the signage of a previous owner still in place

    01Chocolatier Guido Gobino is housed in a listed building with the signage of a previous owner still in place

  • Cannoli pastries

    02Cannoli pastries

  • Guido Martinetti

    03Guido Martinetti

  • Baudracco deli

    04Baudracco deli

  • Preparing a Grom cone

    05Preparing a Grom cone

  • Antipasti at Tre Galline

    06Antipasti at Tre Galline

  • Casa del Barrolo

    07Casa del Barrolo

  • Gertosio

    08Gertosio

  • Gianduja chocolate at Guido Gobino

    09Gianduja chocolate at Guido Gobino

  • Cheese trolley at Tre Galline

    10Cheese trolley at Tre Galline

  • Exterior of Gertosio

    11Exterior of Gertosio

  • Tre Galline

    12Tre Galline

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Turin, shrewd— Turin

Preface

Guido Martinetti is one half of the chilled duo behind Grom ice cream (and one of our ‘new heroes’ featured in issue 29). When he is not on the road checking on suppliers, he can be found around Piazza Carlo Felice in his native Turin, where he eats, drinks and shops for fresh pasta and wine.

Guido Martinetti, Piazza Carlo Felice

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Best in show – Belgian beer

Secret tipple

Belgium

A Belgian beer held in the highest regard hails from the monks of the Sint-Sixtus brewery in the hamlet of Westvleteren. “We brew to be able to live, we don’t live to brew, and we keep production very small-scale,” says monk Manu.

The abbey produces three Trappist beers, of which the 12˚ is the most popular – it should be drunk, like red wine, at room temperature. Only for sale at the abbey at certain times of the year (whenever the monks need to raise some money), sales are limited to one case per registered car and have to be ordered in advance.

The only official bar in the world where you can drink Sint-Sixtus beer is In De Vrede (translation: In Peace), the unfussy tavern next to the Abbey. Score a seat outside and also try some bread with hennepot – a local speciality of cold chicken, veal and rabbit – or the ice cream made with Trappist beer.

sintsixtus.be; indevrede.be

Three famous Belgians:

01: Westmalle Triple: A golden, spicy Trappist ale from the Westmalle brewery.
trappistwestmalle.be

02: 3 Fonteinen Millennium Geuze: A true lambic beer with a cidery taste.
3fonteinen.be

03: Sint-Bernardus Witbier: A hazy, wheaty white beer voted by Belgian beer connoisseurs as No 1.
sintbernardus.be

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