I had a few recommendation from a young Italian woman who works at the hotel I was staying in Turin. This was one of them: Berbere Pizza. I think this pizzeria (A pitza restaurant, in Italian, I don't know why pitza it's not written pitza when we're writing in English!) has different locations through the City of Turin but the one I tried is their " Central " (Centero) location, close to Piazza San Carlo.
I think the place has no tables inside due to the size but there're a few outside. This is the case with many food establishments in Italy due to limited space and the other thing is people like to be outside. I do not! Nevertheless I was given a menu which I found has English version as well and I ordered a sort of Pitza with Sausage on it. I probably have to wait only 10, maybe 15 minutes. The Pitza was not very hot but warm enough and the amount of so-called Sausage was too little. I then ordered a Margarita Pitza which is very popular in Italy but has the least amount of ingredients and probably the simplest. It was not bad but the same problem was there: The Pitza didn't come oven hot and generally these two Pitzas (Pizze in Italian as a plural for Pizza) failed to impress. I didn't order any desert and I think they offer that. Before leaving I had a little chat with a very pretty German-Italian young girl who spoke very good English. Very nice girl, polite and respectful. I'm always impressed with this type of young people whether a man or women because there're not many of them around in today's society.
Barbere failed to impressed for someone like me who was trying Italian food or to be specific Italian Pitza (Pizza Italiana) for the first time. I'm not a fan of sitting outside but as I said it's something very common in Italy and even here in Canada people like to sit outside when they got a chance to enjoy a meal or a beverage. An African drifter came and sat at one of the tables that belonged to the restaurant and I know unless it was very busy, no restaurant staff would tell them to f_ck off but you never know what people, particularly, refugees are up to these day. He sat and ate a sandwich, I think but there has been many stories that people got smacked for no reason on bright daylight. Turin, however, felt safe and I saw nothing the entire time I was there. There was this once demonstration which ended quickly but police and security is present at critical spots in the city. Do I go to Berbere they next time I'm in Turin? I'd rather to try something better. However if you're looking for something that is considered affordable and okay, I think that is the place. By the way why would someone call his restaurant Berbere?! This word is translated to Berber in English which means the indigenous people of North Africa??!! I'm not going to get into the whole history of Berbers!
(Photo: The only thing that has come from Italy to North America which somehow has resemblance to the actual Pizza Italiana or Italian Pitza is the word Pizza which is written in the same way that is written in Italian! The actual pitza in Italy is completely different from what we are offered here in North America. This was the first pitza that I ordered)

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