Maurizio Rinaldi

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Ekin Sahin

Friday is fish dayy!!

Manuela Macrì

Issimo!

Stuart Mckay

Food was fantastic.. Where the locals eat

Gut, mit Potential nach oben. Was good, can increase the whole concept. Ciao buongustai, Io ho ordinato le Orecchiette, chiedendo se erano buone o dure... mi e` stato detto che erano buone e non dure. Ok. Mangiate, dure. Non al dente, ma quasi spaccadente. Le seppioline ripene le ho cercate in mezzo alle Orecchiette, senza successo, solo pezzetti di ripieno. Gli spaghetti allo scoglio dei miei commensali erano ottimi, nonostante loro sono molto critici!! Tiramisu, ok. Bunet, buono. Strudel, ma si, andava. Chardonnay, buono, ma un po` piu di scelta farebbe bene. Osteria, no? Espresso macchiato, top. Conto prego! Arriva un foglietto di carta dei compiti dell'anno scolatico passato, con l'importo da saldare... come si controlla se c'e` qualcosa di troppo o manca una voce li?? Fiducia ceca? Sicuro che si meritano la fiducia dei clienti, ma una svista puo` teoreticamente succedere. Eppure la cassa esiste. Mai visto. Pazienza. Il servizio potrebbe essere un pochetto piu` attento, verso i clienti ed eventuali desideri enogastronomici, magari addirittura letti dagl'occhi degl'ospiti. La decorazione/arredamento mi pareva un'opera incompiuta. Il soffitto, dove cade l'intonaco, va` messo a posto al piu` presto, chiaro. Anche la serratura del bagno. Comunque, da consigliare, ne. Ciao.

Posticino tipico nel cuore del balon , cucina piemontese e non solo , cortesia e disponibilità da parte dello staff ,rapporto qualità prezzo Ottimo, 👍 trovato un po' per caso ,di domenica a pranzo nonostante sprovvisti di prenotazione , ci hanno accontentati , consigliato 👏

Mindaye Rambaudi

Excellent osteria for a quick meal. The staff is welcoming and very helpful, and the atmosphere is informal and pleasant. Ideal for a good meal without wasting too much time.

+1

Raffaella Basilico

DECEMBER 28 24 - I went back on Saturday, always excellent value for money: €7 for first courses, €8 for second courses, €4 for side dishes, €3 for a quarter of wine. I had rabbit in Arneis with cauliflower. Warm and informal atmosphere, very busy, you feel at ease. Tried during the week: excellent solution for a weekday lunch! Complete lunch (first course, second course, side dish and water €10). Abundant and all very good, satisfactory value for money! Good atmosphere, just like an osteria. Quick service. I added a quarter of red wine on tap (good) €2 and coffee €1.20

+3

Alessandra Piccoli

A quaint, simple restaurant with tasteful details, friendly and welcoming staff, good food, and moderate prices. It's a shame the appetizer was too cold, especially the mussels and scallops au gratin.

Felice Pirovano

Osteria del Balon in Turin offers tasty dishes with authentic flavors, at reasonable prices that make it an attractive choice for a casual lunch. Service is extremely fast and organized, a sign of well-established efficiency. However, the atmosphere can be quite chaotic, especially at peak times, and the pace of service gives off a somewhat assembly-line feel. As soon as we finished our meal, we were asked to leave the table, which can detract from the pleasure of the experience. Overall, a good place for those looking for a quick, tasty meal, but less suitable for those seeking a relaxed lunch.

Claudia Zencovich

A nice little restaurant with decent food. The only flaw I found was that after we finished our coffee, they immediately asked us to get up and pay, so they could seat other customers. It's a shame we'd reserved two tables for the same group, and the other table was still finishing its dessert and coffee. So we had to wait outside for our other friends, where it was cold that day. Not very professional.

Camille Hamon

It seems they don’t have a fixed menu, maybe it depends on what they bought in the fish market that day! And they explained us what they have quite patiently. Food is very good, but no official bill in the end and they don’t accept card.

Piero Abrate

The only positive note was the service: fast (too fast, in fact) thanks to the smart, lively, and decidedly friendly waitress. The food was a bit disappointing. The first course (pasta and beans) was practically cold. I only had two side dishes: the ribs were passable, but the baked potatoes were practically inedible. The fruit salad was unspeakable, with peaches as hard as rocks. An experience worth repeating, but not on a Saturday when the Balon is open and the place is packed.

Antonella

Pesto pasta served less than 5 minutes after ordering 😂....the penne took 8 minutes to cook, and in fact the pasta wasn't al dente but raw. When we sent it back to the kitchen, they brought it back slightly overcooked but soaked in oil and pesto 😅😅😅. The poor waitress rushing to serve!!! It's a restaurant, not an athletic field. It's distressing to eat in such a rush; it felt like a factory cafeteria, not a relaxing Sunday lunch.

Natasha Escribano

The food is not good, my dish was cold (and I asked for soup, and it’s winter)!!!

La pasta era completamente cruda ho trovato una decina di capelli e un avanzo di hamburger nella pasta 3 ore di attesa per le posate fra poco chiudeva il locale ambiente disordinato servirebbe un grande cambiamento in più cercando su internet compare fra peggiori ristoranti di Torino in ogni caso voglio un rimborso

Cibo dozzinale, quantità ridicole: la mia polenta salsiccia e costine era composta da un unico pezzo di salsiccia e due pezzi di ossa di costine. Polenta e sugo senza sale. Caos totale all'interno. Unica nota positiva sono i camerieri. Fermatevi a mangiare qui solo se l'alternativa sarebbe il digiuno.

Rocio

Unthinkable. After a twenty-minute wait, the waiter cleaned the table WITH HIS HAND, the same hand he used to serve tables. When we sat down, literally none of the dishes listed on the menu were available. They brought us a pasta dish with sauce that contained four pieces of bone. The main courses were ridiculously tiny. We ordered bread and side dishes, but they never arrived. I recommend this restaurant reconsider its table size, because the food wasn't bad, but the service was truly appalling.

F B

I happened upon this restaurant at lunchtime. You have to rate it from 1 to 5 stars, but if there had been fewer than 1 star, I would have. The food was awful: I ordered boiled potatoes, but my 90-year-old grandmother with Alzheimer's cooks them better. Tasteless and without any flavor, I couldn't believe it!!! Luckily I didn't order the starters, because I could see that the dishes were arriving a little pale, it looked like they had been reheated. Yet the prices aren't joking. A dessert costs €6, the stuff of a high-end restaurant, and when we're just talking about scoops of ice cream. Service: I've never seen service like this, it was like watching the game "The Cage" live on TV. Everyone was in a rush, and when they left the dishes on the table, they almost threw them at you. PRICES: a first course €8, a second course €8, a side dish €4, coffee €1.50, a full €2. It's a shame to see an Italian restaurant like this when so many tourists see it, and besides, tourists seem used to everything in Italy these days. Anyway, I'll definitely never go back again. I see so many people coming back, unsuspecting tourists are better off arriving, so we all have to work.

Alessia Insabella

They made us wait relatively little and then made us sit at a table that still needed to be cleared, after several minutes they set the table in front of us throwing placemats and napkins at us without leaving us any menus, which were given to us when we ordered so we could choose very quickly. We took two first courses and two second courses. My first course arrived first, tagliolini with tomato and basil. Dishes literally thrown and slammed violently on the table in a hurry. Pasta so overcooked that it had already broken during cooking, tasteless, full of water with half a teaspoon of uncooked tomato sauce, without a hint of basil. Even though I had added a lot of parmesan, that pasta was unwatchable and inedible, we sent it back. When I finished my first course, my boyfriend's still hadn't arrived, 25 minutes had already passed, we asked and it arrived, mediocre. Let's move on to the second courses, the worst veal with tuna sauce I've ever eaten but by forcing myself with the bread I managed to finish it, even if it was a small portion. My boyfriend ordered a late sirloin, COLD, with a horrible appearance, full of fat, not cooked well, looking at it it looked like a hospital canteen dish, next to it there was an unidentified food, they looked like pieces of croissant, I attach a photo. At our second complaint made to the waiter and then at the cashier (because at that point we got up, we would have had dessert and coffee but the situation around us had also become unmanageable, waiters who were yelling because they couldn't find the table numbers between curses and swear words), both the waiter and the lady at the cashier asked us very rudely why we hadn't said it before, blaming us, instead of apologizing. The only positive note is that they removed those two dishes from the bill, for the rest it is the worst place to stop to eat in general, not just during the balloon. I also add that the alleged dishes you see online about this tavern are not at all true.