Bar Saffi

A small, family-run bar. A good selection of freshly cooked dishes are available daily, with a variety of starters, main courses, and plenty of vegetables. The sandwich selection is a bit smaller. Helpful staff. Four-legged friends are welcome.

Kind and genuine staff

12.06.23 A CORNER OF HOME What about those places that are apparently so similar to so many others, but that stand out as soon as you sit at the table, making us feel immediately welcomed and cared for, wanting only to tease the senses and the palate? Those places that really make the difference? This is the case of Bar Saffi in via Saffi 27/A in Turin, a family-run home island, between Cenisia and Cit Turin. I go there regularly. It has become an essential ritual: my weekly green meal. Green not only for food choices, but for spirit and memories of a greener time, in which food tasted of freedom and serenity, when I spent the summer holidays with my grandmother, who cooked simple and tasty things, inspired by her past as a rice-field worker. Green like the stewed artichokes that almost melt in your mouth or like the fragrant omelettes, like the buttered green beans, the snow peas or the courgettes that taste of the flowery and generous countryside, green like the dishes of Signora Sonia, who puts so much heart into each of her creations. Green so convincing that it transforms every vegetable into a dish. But what about the land dishes? What about a rolata that is a marvel or a arrosticino prepared with infinite care, what about the legendary mozzarella in carrozza, so famous among friends that they compete to compete for it? In short, a true "corner of home", to be offered to lovers of that old-fashioned atmosphere that comes from the scents of genuine cuisine, placed in an exquisitely sober environment. A winning combination, therefore, embellished by one last ingredient, perhaps the most important: the kindness that only a grandmother is capable of offering.