Restaurant in Turin, Italy
Fruit-forward creative dining, strong value case.
Opera occupies a nineteenth-century church refectory in central Turin and delivers creative Italian cooking with a distinctive fruit-led approach, earning Michelin Plate recognition in 2025 and a 4.7 Google rating across 258 reviews. Priced at €€€, it sits below the city's top-tier creative tables in cost but not in ambition. Book it for a special dinner or a strong-value return visit in a room with genuine architectural character.
If you're choosing between Opera and Turin's pricier creative dining options, Opera at €€€ sits one tier below the €€€€ rooms at Piano35 or Andrea Larossa — and for most diners, that gap in price does not translate into a gap in ambition. The Michelin Plate recognition for 2025 signals the kitchen is operating at a level worth your attention, and a Google rating of 4.7 across 258 reviews suggests Opera is consistently delivering rather than trading on a single memorable night. Book it if you want creative Italian cooking in a room with genuine character, without paying top-tier prices for the privilege.
The setting alone makes a case for the reservation. Opera occupies the former nineteenth-century refectory of an adjacent church on Via Sant'Antonio da Padova, and the exposed brickwork of that original structure still defines the dining room today. The visual effect is immediate: warm, aged masonry framing a kitchen that is, by contrast, entirely contemporary in its thinking. For a returning guest, the room never stops being the right backdrop for the food — there is a coherence between the historic architecture and the chef's considered, ingredient-led approach that feels earned rather than designed.
The kitchen's defining trait is a commitment to fruit as a structural element across the menu, not as a garnish or an occasional gesture. Acidity and brightness run through both meat and fish preparations, with fruit deployed to add flavour contrast and balance where a more conventional kitchen might reach for a heavy sauce. This is creative Italian cooking with a clear point of view, and that consistency of approach is what separates Opera from restaurants that do creative cuisine as a style rather than a conviction. The sommelier work, highlighted in the Michelin assessment, is a genuine asset: wine pairing here is active rather than decorative.
For the returning visitor, the lunch versus dinner question at a restaurant of this type has real practical weight. At the €€€ price tier, a lunch visit at Opera is likely to represent one of the stronger value propositions in central Turin , creative-kitchen restaurants in this category typically offer compressed menus at lunch that give access to the chef's cooking at a lower commitment level. If your first visit was dinner and the full experience, a return at lunch is a reasonable way to revisit the kitchen without repeating the same format. Conversely, if you haven't eaten here at dinner, the full evening in that brick-vaulted refectory is the experience the room was designed for: the atmosphere carries more weight after dark, and the sommelier's contribution lands differently over a longer meal. Hours are not confirmed in our current data, so verify availability directly with the restaurant before planning a weekday lunch specifically.
For a special occasion or a longer evening, dinner is the right call. For a midweek return or a solo visit where a lighter commitment makes sense, lunch (if available) gives you access to the same kitchen at a format that suits the occasion. Either way, booking in advance is sensible , a room with this combination of critical recognition and strong review volume does not rely on walk-in traffic.
Opera is located at Via Sant'Antonio da Padova, 3, in the 10121 postcode of central Turin , walkable from most of the city's main hotel zones. Booking is rated Easy, which at a Michelin Plate restaurant in a mid-sized Italian city typically means one to two weeks' notice is sufficient for most evenings, though weekend slots and peak season (autumn truffle season in Piedmont runs October through November) will tighten that window. The €€€ pricing puts Opera at a more accessible level than the majority of Turin's recognized creative kitchens. Phone and website details are not confirmed in our current data; search the restaurant name directly for the most current contact and reservation options. For broader planning, see our full Turin restaurants guide, our full Turin hotels guide, our full Turin bars guide, our full Turin wineries guide, and our full Turin experiences guide.
Against Turin's €€€€ creative-dining tier , Condividere, memorable, Del Cambio, and Piano35 , Opera at €€€ is the clearer value play for creative Italian cooking with genuine critical backing. Del Cambio carries more historic prestige and a grander room; Piano35 offers a skyline view that Opera cannot match. But if your priority is kitchen ambition and a room with real atmosphere at a price that doesn't require the full splurge, Opera is the stronger recommendation for most profiles.
At the other end of the scale, Consorzio at €€ is the go-to for direct Piedmontese cooking without the creative-kitchen overlay. It's a different experience entirely , less architectural drama, more regional comfort , and worth knowing about if your group includes someone less interested in fruit-forward contemporary cooking. Opera sits squarely between Consorzio's regional directness and the full-format ambition of the city's top-end tables: it is the right choice when you want a chef with a point of view without paying the premium that Michelin-starred rooms in this city command.
For a returning visitor already familiar with Opera, the natural next step in Turin's creative dining tier would be Cannavacciuolo Bistrot or Scatto, both of which offer a different creative register. Further afield in Italy, Osteria Francescana in Modena, Uliassi in Senigallia, and Reale in Castel di Sangro represent the next tier of Italian creative cooking if Opera has sharpened your appetite for this style. For Italian contemporary outside Italy, Agli Amici Rovinj and L'Olivo in Anacapri are worth considering. For comparison points at the highest level of Italian cooking, Dal Pescatore in Runate, Quattro Passi in Marina del Cantone, and Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler in Brunico illustrate the range of where this style of cooking goes at its most ambitious. Magazzino 52 is worth knowing for a more casual Turin evening in contrast.
| Venue | Awards | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera | The former nineteenth century refectory of the nearby church has become the laboratory of a chef who is as skillful as he is creative: wrapped in the warm atmosphere of the brickwork of the evocative dining room, all the dishes have fruit as a recurring ingredient, which adds a touch of acidity and flavor to dishes of creative cuisine, whether of meat or fish, further enhanced by the work of an excellent sommelier.; Michelin Plate (2025); The former nineteenth century refectory of the nearby church has become the laboratory of a chef who is as skillful as he is creative: wrapped in the warm atmosphere of the brickwork of the evocative dining room, all the dishes have fruit as a recurring ingredient, which adds a touch of acidity and flavor to dishes of creative cuisine, whether of meat or fish, further enhanced by the work of an excellent sommelier. | €€€ | — |
| Condividere | Michelin 1 Star | €€€€ | — |
| Unforgettable | Michelin 1 Star | €€€€ | — |
| Del Cambio | Michelin 1 Star | €€€€ | — |
| Consorzio | €€ | — | |
| Piano35 | Michelin 1 Star | €€€€ | — |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
Opera's setting in a converted nineteenth-century church refectory lends itself to solo dining better than most at the €€€ tier — the room has enough architectural character to make a table-for-one feel deliberate rather than awkward. The sommelier's involvement across the meal also gives solo diners a natural point of engagement. Worth booking if you want a considered creative Italian meal without needing a group to justify the spend.
At the €€€ price tier, Opera's tasting menu is one of the stronger value cases in Turin's creative dining category — sitting a clear tier below the €€€€ rooms like Del Cambio or Piano35. The kitchen's recurring use of fruit as an acidity driver across meat and fish dishes gives the menu a consistent, considered logic rather than the course-by-course disconnection that can undermine menus at this price. If creative Italian tasting menus are your format, Opera justifies the spend. If you'd rather order freely, the format may not suit.
Bar seating is not confirmed in Opera's venue data, so this can't be guaranteed before you book. Given the setting — a former church refectory with a brickwork dining room — the layout is likely oriented around table service rather than counter dining. check the venue's official channels via the address at Via Sant'Antonio da Padova, 3 to confirm options before assuming bar access.
Groups at the €€€ tier in a room of this character are workable, but Opera's refectory setting likely has finite private or semi-private configurations. For groups of four or more, book well in advance and state your group size at the time of reservation to secure appropriate seating. For large private events, confirm directly with the restaurant — the historic dining room is the kind of space that often has event capacity separate from regular service.
The venue data doesn't specify a dress code, but a Michelin-recognised creative Italian restaurant in a nineteenth-century dining room at the €€€ price point in Turin points toward neat, considered dress — not a suit requirement, but not casual either. Turin's dining culture trends more formally than Milan's relaxed north-Italian register. Err toward business casual if you're uncertain.
The clearest thing to know going in: fruit appears as a recurring ingredient across the menu — in meat dishes, fish dishes, and likely dessert — adding acidity rather than sweetness. This is a deliberate kitchen signature, not an occasional flourish, so if that flavour approach doesn't appeal, Opera may not be the right fit. For first-timers who do find that interesting, the combination of a Michelin Plate (2025), a strong sommelier programme, and a €€€ price point below Turin's top creative tier makes this a low-friction entry point into the city's serious dining circuit.
Dietary accommodation is not documented in Opera's venue data. At the €€€ creative dining tier, kitchens at this level generally have the range to adapt, but Opera's fruit-forward, cross-category menu (meat and fish across the same tasting structure) means some restrictions may require advance notice to handle properly. Contact Opera directly at Via Sant'Antonio da Padova, 3, Turin, before booking if dietary needs are a material factor.
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