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Restaurants in Biella
Where to eat in Biella: polenta concia, ris an cagnun, paletta biellese, and the tome of the valleys.
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The catalogue currently covers Pistoia and Prato, and grows one province at a time. This town may also be listed under a different name: try searching for it.
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From the Bitebooker blog
We have not written about this town yet. In the meantime: how bookings, requests and reviews work.
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Instant confirmation or on request: what actually changes
On the same page, two restaurants can behave in two different ways. The difference isn’t cosmetic: it’s whether the table is yours or not.
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Where the listings come from, and why they’re sometimes wrong
No restaurateur asked to be here. That’s why the catalogue is broad, and it’s also why it goes stale.
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«All verified»: what it means, and what it doesn’t
Here a review is tied to a meal that took place. It is an inconvenient rule — it shuts a lot of people out — and everything that «all verified» can promise lives inside it.
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Eating in Biella
Biella lies below the Alps and above the rice plain: its cooking takes more from the mountains than from the town.
The dishes
- Polenta concia — polenta with butter and melted toma, beaten until it strings;
- Ris an cagnun — rice dressed with browned butter, garlic and toma: paddy rice cooked the mountain way;
- Paletta biellese — cured pork shoulder, boiled and sliced hot with potatoes;
- Supa mitunà, the bread and cheese soup of feast days.
The cheeses
The Biella tome and Maccagno from the upper Cervo valley, made in summer pastures.
The sweets and the glass
Canestrelli biellesi, two wafers with chocolate between them. The wine is Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG and Coste della Sesia, with Ratafià among the local liqueurs.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
Other towns in the province of Biella
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.