La Piola

Dining experiences here are extraordinary! Food is incredibly delicious, all people are nice , friendly and experts. Atmosphere is remarkable. Thanks for providing us with such wonderful hospitality and experience

The best food of the travel. Unfortunately, the service is terrible. The hostes was rude when we asked if we could take a table outside. She shouldn't be on the front office if she doesn't like people… The service on the table was super slow and not attentive. Waited for a considerable time for taking our order.

Great spot on the town square, you can either sit outside in the open, outside in a glass enclosure or inside in the restaurant. Food was tasty and well presented and they cook regional specialties- I had pasta with truffles hand grated onto my plate and a Bunet hazelnut dessert. Service was excellent and attentive.

Delicious food. Try Fassone di Razza Piemontese and anything with white truffle!

One of my favourite meals while travelling in Italy this past September was at La Piola. We were seated on the terrace at our request and had a beautiful view of the plaza. I ordered the Misto di Antipasti (tasting of appetizers, including veal and tuna) at the recommendation of a local shop owner and the homemade tajarin with black truffles. What a treat to have truffle shaved onto the pasta right at our table! The service was prompt and attentive, with our server often coming over to pour more wine. Overall, it was a highly enjoyable fine dining experience focused on regional cuisine. Note: I believe there were two seatings for dinner and reservations were required.

If you don't have the possibility of dining at Piazza Duomo, you won't be disappointed by their sister trattoria La Piola. Here you can find all of Piedmont's traditions such as tajarin, plin and wonderful cheeses and wine. I suggest eating outside as the restaurant inside is too brightly lit.

Fabulous restaurant with brilliant food, wine and service. There are 2 rooms - one inside and a glassed-in terrace room outside in the piazza. We were seated in the piazza - very comfortable and heated/air conditioned. An excellent dinner was enjoyed!

Reserved at 14:30 and didn’t get seated before 14:50. Upon arriving the excuse was « we are preparing your table ». We appreciate that many people are present at the restaurant, but a reservation is for a reason. The food is delicious, nothing to say about that. Sitting down, we got asked by 3 different waiters if we had been served water, when we had already ordered it. Food arrived before the wine and dessert arrived separately with 10 mins difference between the two. Food feels like it’s rushed at this time, maybe if you book a reservation before its different (entered and left the restaurant within an hour). Food great. Service had better and would only recommend for the food.

We came at lunch and even then you need a reservation. This place is highly desirable. The veal with the tuna sauce was exceptional!! The wine: I asked my waiter and he should be a somm from all his knowledge and passion . Desert was great too. This was a year ago I went there and looking this place for a friend I realized I didn't write a review. So weak as it is, trust me this IS a place to eat at

Perfectly situated in the center of town is the busy and chic: La Piola. It was by happenstance that we walked by, captured by the near full indoor and outdoor dining space filled with happy diners, and fortunately they had one table for us! This was hands down the best pasta with truffles we had.

Very good restaurant experience. The service and food were very good. The truffle pasta was top notch and the antipasto Misti was great. Very good wine list.

Great place! I visited the Ceretto winery in the morning and ate here for dinner. My server Francesco was fabulous! The table displays and setting of the restaurant was well oriented. All the staff was friendly and very comfortable speaking English. The food was AMAZING, well presented and timely. Can't recommend this place more if in the beautiful town of Alba.

This was solid Italian food. The sommelier was awesome and we had a very nice Barberesco with dinner. The agnolotti dal Plin was very good but I wanted more sauce. The Vitelli tonnato (veal sliced thinly with tuna mayonnaise sauce) was decent. The egg cocotte with cream and with white truffle was small, but delicious and I would definitely get again. The tajarin pasta with truffle was also delicious.

The dining spot was in a great location right in the square and next to the church. Cute modern interior. It's linked with Cerretto winery somehow. (Great winery to visit, by the way). By the time we got there, they were out of most of their entries. So, there was very little to choose from. I may have given them five stars, but the selection was poor. The pasta were fine, but frankly not as memorable as other meals on my trip. The appetizer was interesting - I liked trying an assortment of local tastes- I still have no idea what I ate! I would come back and give this place another shot. But they really should better manage their food so they don't run out of their core dishes before closing time!

What a great place! We were a group of 6 people and got seated on their ''outside'' area, which is covered and has a great view of the piazza. It turns out that area is better than eating inside. The decoration is great. Nice decorated plates and glasses made our table very welcoming. The service is friendly and on time. As an appetizer I ordered the mix. It comes with vitello tonnato, salade russe and beef tartare (you can choose to add white truffles on that, I did). Everything on the plate was delicious. As a main dish I got the tajarin with white truffles. DELICIOUS!! Breathtaking. Perfectly cooked. The rest of the table chose a second meat dish and they all look tasty. I got the gelato as a dessert and it was very good also. We ordered 3 bottles of wine, two coffees and 3 doses of grappa at the end. Regarding the truffles: they will serve you as much truffles as you want and charge by the gram. At the end our check added up to around 90euros/person. Not expensive for the amount of wine and truffles that we ate. I would very much recommend this place next time you're in Alba.

Very good restaurant in the middle of the city of Alba. Good food and excellent service, it is indeed worth to try.