Piazza Duomo

This restaurant housed in a beautiful palazzo with an Art Nouveau-style façade stands in Alba’s main piazza, although its discreet entrance is from a small alleyway just off the square. The first-floor dining room is as simple as it is iconic, featuring pink walls and ceiling decorated with a fresco that seems to herald the chef’s love for the world of plants. His dishes feature an array of vegetables, flowers and aromatic herbs, many of which are grown especially for him in a large kitchen garden with a greenhouse. Enrico Crippa offers a long tasting menu influenced by a whole host of ingredients and recipes. Although Piedmontese ingredients are to the fore here (including the region’s famous hazelnuts), the chef also shows himself to be an indefatigable seeker of produce and culinary styles from across the globe. Last but not least, his presentation is always meticulous, showing remarkable aesthetic taste that is reflected in dishes with artistic names, such as his “Matisse panna cotta” and the crunchy hazelnut and crème caramel dessert inspired by an Andy Warhol painting.