Best Italian Food in Alba, Italy!! World’s Best White Truffle Pasta!

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ALBA, ITALY – Welcome to Alba, the world’s capital of Alba white truffles – one of the most expensive ingredients in the world. Today we’re going on a white truffle tour of Alba, we’ll go on a truffle hunt, eat at one of the world’s best truffle restaurants and then visit the International Alba White Truffle Fair. Let’s go see why white truffles are so prized throughout the world!

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Truffle hunt – First we’re going on a truffle hunt with Alba Royal Truffles (https://albaroyaltruffles.com/) – they are renowned for their authentic and some of the best white truffles. We were able to see the entire process of how Joe the dog works with the truffle hunter to find and harvest white and black truffles. Black truffles are above the surface whereas white truffles are a fungus that grows underground and can only be sniffed out by dogs. It was very educational to see. We also had our first taste of Alba white truffles with a few courses at the headquarters.

Bovio Restaurant, La Morra, Italy (https://maps.app.goo.gl/TkDowyV6KGV36KYN9) – Next up we continued on to easily one of the world’s best Italian food truffle restaurants serving Piedmont cuisine. We decided to buy our own white truffle – and we choose an 80 gram truffle for 400 Euros, after carefully choosing one. Then we ordered a bunch of different dishes, and shaved on th white truffle ourselves. It was a spectacular meal and more white truffles than I’ver ever had in my life in one sitting.

International Alba White Truffle Fair, Alba, Italy – Finally to wrap up this Italian food white truffle tour we visited the acclaimed International Alba White Truffle Fair, which is the place to go if you’re interested in local products and especially white truffles. It was a lot of fun as there’s auctions, and plenty of food to eat.

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A 400 white truffle wow man top of the line I’m in Alba Italy and today we’re going on a truffle hunt this Forest is so beautiful oh he got one wa W oh yes I can smell it coming through the soil and then we’re going to a legendary restaurant to eat the world’s

Best white truffles I feel like I’m bathing in the aroma just don’t shave your finger the stretchiest dessert ever let’s find out why Alba is the world’s capital of truffles we’re beginning this Alba truffle tour in the forest we’re going to go hunting for truffles white Alba

Truffles the best in the world the Truffle season started the last week of September but now with cold temperature a lot of rain the last three weeks uh we have a lot of truffles now so this is the best time of the season for white truffles so so we’re here at the perfect

Time yeah perfect time awesome nice oh bonj Bono he’s our truffle Hunter okay he and he’s the Truffle hunter dog beautiful dog yeah this is our chuffle Hara that was planted 35 years ago from my father Mich is the only guy that can come inside uh the Truffle area because he a private

Area if you see there are a lot of cameras on because protected Forest the season is good uh you can find here maybe 20 25 kilos of wet truffle so you can imagine how the business how is big uh so the 80% of the the trees are ox truffles are

Attracted to oak trees often okay okay and also we have three four hnut plant that we called the uh matter trees matter trees just because it’s thanks also to the roots of the Hut tree that the we can also find some truffles wow this is extremely exciting the biscuit okay we can

Go okay you got a biscuit yeah there he goes so he’s already at work he’s already at work now searching for truffles what is the dog’s name again Joe Joe and Joe just takes off using his nose oh this Forest is so beautiful beautiful oh he got

One w wow wow you’re good Doug here we go this is our first truffle finding oh it smells delicious that’s Unearthed seconds ago by Joe and this is a black truffle which are not nearly as prized they’re much more common uh much easier to harvest and on the surface as opposed

To the white truffles a little bathroom break a little bathroom break fully give it to you oh he got another one oh he’s a truffle truffle Master he got a black truffle yeah I got a black but he won’t give it to anybody except for oh man the Loyalty oh this one’s

Beautiful W that we go it looks like a wow so this one this one is a good one yeah has a better shape okay but it’s black truffle yeah which is w our second truffle another black truffle but this one is really beautiful that oh oh the fungi

The aroma yeah and earthy too oh this one is really nice look at that it’s beautiful the big difference between the black white that when he smell the white he stop to to dig just because is he teach that is he didn’t have to he doesn’t

Have to SC too much just because you can broke the the truffles Okay so we’ve got a potential white truffle such a cool process oh oh yeah can you smell the soil yes I can smell it coming through the soil when when we find the wet Tru yes

There it is gosh that is the prized white truffle finally it’s a beauty Joe well done extra biscuit For You Joe oh my gosh wow this is the freshest truffle you’ll ever smell oh oh I want that to be embedded in my nostrils forever sweet garlicky yeah that’s

Incredible get a whiff of that that is our first white truffle that was such a cool process it was so such a beautiful beautiful process just to explain what a truffle is and a truffle is a Genus tuber of a fuing body which grows within the soil

So it’s a fungus rather than a mushroom that typically grows above soil Sprouts out of the soil a truffle is a fungus that typically grows below soil they often grow on the roots of trees or below the soil at the base of trees within the roots there are two really

Famous kinds of truffles you have the black truffles which are much more common and much more abundant and then you have white truffles which are much more rare and harder to find harder to harvest but the really prized Hunt is the white Alba Truffles and that’s why

We came here that’s what uh attracts people from around the world and it’s a like one of the the high in demand ingredients by chefs fine dining highend chefs I mean chefs from around the entire world that’s really fascinating you often hear about truffle hunting in the

Middle of the night like 2 a.m. and he just Andrea just explained that that’s just only because of secrecy uh because they have the Truffle Hunters all have their favorite spots and they don’t want to give them away in the in the wild forest now this is It’s a real Forest it

Is designed to be an environment for the growth of Truffles and so that’s why I mean we can be in the middle of the day we’re in the morning and harvesting truffles the real deal great job I think we have another another white truffle oh can you show me there it is because

Wow normally the shuffles is around the The Roots no look oh yeah yeah because was born there and then also the under under the root up the roots so is it attached to the root yeah is a white TR there also a root attached oh that one’s a beauty and when

You find a a white truffle you have to clean the Truffle because uh you leaves the truffles the the sorry the the spores on the soil uh so this is why maybe next week or next 10 days you can find the another truffle just there thanks to the sported oh

Okay another white truffle Unearthed oh take your biggest whiff Jeffrey inhale done full of TR that was a successful Harvest amazing I’ve learned so much and we’re heading back now to to taste the white truffle at the The Source chiao gra oh you’re the man of the match bro do you have any

Truffles wow wow same truffles as B yeah same trff wow wow oh man top of the line oh man these are the prized truffles right here that shape oh the aroma this is just an aroma Paradise wow okay Cheers Cheers Che Cheers Cheers everybody cheers we go starting off a

Tasting of truffle and the first course a tartar cheese Chee and egg actually works oh there he’s shaving it on the egg the cheese the tartar oh those are thick slices oh finished off the Truffle gra okay one bite of Tartar and then we’re going in for that egg man that

Truffle is such a such a perfume of flavor of Aroma oh wow the steak oh oh so cold and refreshing and again that truffle just just fills your mouth with this this scent this incredible earthy funy smell and Aroma the white truffle of Alba man it’s

Good yolk yolk is one of the greatest things to eat truffle with white trouble with you’re not going to believe oh the egg with the yolk the I think the richness of the Yol compliments the the the Truffle so well okay the cheese oh it’s better than a € 200 Pizza oh no

Dirty you it’s in the car charging oh the cheese is incredible oh that’s just so neutral so creamy I think that’s on purpose that it’s a very neutral tasting cheese so that the it doesn’t cover up the flavor of the aroma of the the Truffle you need a neutral tasting cheese like

That jeez it’s amazing this entire plate is delicious wow even the steak tartar is just completely plain maybe a little bit of salt and that’s all but again you want to eat white truffle with plain foods to just totally highlight the the flavor potential of the white

Travel oh that smells so good simple pasta we’re moving on to the pasta course this is talini it is a pasta that’s native to Alba Pon and man he just again shaved on that truffle the white truffle the aroma just filling the room now with its beautiful perfume oh

Man you do need to mix it to get all the little bit you smell a little bit of that butter but nothing overpowers that truffle let that fragrance just absorb into the the pasta that pasta is amazing the Al Dente texture the butter the white truffle M oh it’s so

Good what a pasta I think the white truffle goes like pairs extremely well with pasta espe totally highlights like the the full potential of the white Trel okay now go out you ready so much trouble that is extraordinary wow that’s a really really good pasta Next Level alente mhm Perfection with

Truffles directly from the forest forest to Plate the freshest truffle you’ll ever try prepared by Joe the Dog harvested by Joe from Joe from mouth to mouth mouth to mouth time for dessert we’re moving on to dessert and a panacota simple panacota with truffle on top oh that’s awesome even dessert

Truffle can be used on everything that is unbelievable mhm that tastes that’s like the thickest cream I’ve ever had in my life Wow and then with the fragrance of the Truffle again and it works I mean it works for Savory for sweet it’s so versatile so just oh truffle is something truly

Special as we’ve already seen that was an amazing introduction to Alba white truffles and Andrea was fantastic uh he has Royal Alba truffle and he does tours and that was just a great tasting but from here we’re on our way driving into the mountain to go to one of the most legendary truffle

Restaurants on Earth The road to get here was unbelievable Drive High into the mountains with a view Over The Vineyards I mean Alba is famous for Vineyards some of the greatest wine in Italy and of course known for their truffles but we’re here right as they open what a view man that’s spectacular

Mr Kevin find dining Explorer good to see you again excellent we are right here for Elba white truffle this is restaurant buio I’ve been coming here for 17 years now 17 years yes one of the best place and there from few Generations now before it was all the

Way up at the top of the hill they moved to here and they’re well known by all the Truffle Hunters that’s why they always get the best white truffle every season from mid October to mid December so Kevin would you say that this is one of the greatest restaurants

In the world to try white truffles it has to be you need to fly all the way here and there’s no other way out because white truffle is very short shelf life oh really okay yeah once it take up from the ground the aroma starting to escape by day three half of

Them will be gone by day seven you can put it into the bin so you need to come all the way to this place to have trou awesome awesome I am so excited this is one of the great I mean this is the capital of truffles white truffles in

The world and this is one of the best restaurants to eat them at here’s our table oh here we are oh and the restaurant overlooks The Incredible View €250 for the the Truffle tasting menu but then most of the dishes are40 to 50 on the allart menu so I think

We’ve decided for the allart menu that we we can choose a mixture of different dishes and potentially get our own truffle to shave on oh here they are there’s the tray oh that Aroma oh man oh they’re huge you won’t do choose something that intense and deep one yeah what are you

Looking for Kevin and then it’s so you can smell a little bit garlicky smell cheesy earthy and you can tell the quality by by smell intensity yeah you want it to be but but some people would want less intense and some people want more int nobody wants less intense white

Trouble you want the more intense the better when it comes to Ghost Pepper many people want less intense when it comes to White TR six people the more intense the better oh wow that Aroma is unbelievable garlic but you you smell the sweetness of the aroma the entire

Room just is filled with the aroma of Truffles and so Kevin is trying to choose a trou this one this one let him recommend this one one but is small a little bit smaller though how much did you say they cost Kevin 5 per gram 5 per

Gram 100 G 500 okay most of these are around 100 gr yeah this is about 15 200 Gr super okay5 per gram that was quite the ordeal and this is I mean a totally new world for me uh after quite a lot of contemplation we chose a truffle 80 g of

White truffle is that the chosen one the bread sticks have arrived Mr Taster yeah they eat it I have a bread stick for you here let’s let’s have a bread stick I love the bread sticks oh oh here it is there’s our graer there there’s the Truffle oh the perfume straight up Garlic it almost smells like honey to me as well oh that’s that’s therapeutic

Wow oh that is impressive a 400 year old white truffle all right cheers for the white truffle Cheers Cheers you there dring yes oh that’s beautiful local wine to go with the white truffle meal and we’re starting with our first bite here we go cabbage roll I think ve on the

Inside almost as good as last night’s sa mhm man that’s good the Cabbage the V on the inside just melts in your mouth or some kind of a a cream cheesy sauce that oh gra okay dishes are starting to arrive this is the oh Kevin’s going this is the V tartar look

At this oh man the aroma I’m I feel like I’m bathing in the aroma wow oh is there yolk inside of that exactly yolk and white truffle best combination here we go we’re going to start with the the raviolo filled with uh rot and I think there’s well filled with

Ricot and I think filled with egg yog and so typically you’d want to eat white truffle with planer foods like plain pasta plain eggs fried eggs is a classic version because you really want to uh experience the full potential the flavor of the white truffle glorify the flavor

Of the white truffle I mean that’s why it’s such a delate ingredient and to to pair it with things that are on the planer side to be able to amplify and glorify and just totally highlight the flavor the aroma potential of the white truffle oh that raviolo oh the yoky

Cheesiness oh that’s so good the flavor I think actually with those white truffles the aroma stronger than the taste next up for the ve tartar sorry I love these Forks here at boio nicely done with the forks maybe the steak tartar you the steak tartar oh

Wow oh that ve melts in your mouth just a little bit of seasoning almost nothing maybe salt and just like a tiny bit of pepper and just because of the pureness of the ve the freshness and then again the Truffle oh that TI tire is Incredible Mana the tartar is fantastic who here we go this is going to be my first time ever to shave truffle and is there a certain elevation you should be coming from a little bit level yeah you can do it faster just don’t shave your finger all over different Lo

Don’t oh it’s pretty it’s quite fun [Laughter] actually all right I think that’s good all right Kevin all right so let’s loosen it up a little bit mix it up mix it well what do it called again tag yes exactly but very thin one very thin one

It’s more Regional just with some butter simple next up for the tagon this is a type of pasta really thin pasta and and again this is a demonstration of why you want I mean why it’s traditional to eat something so plain because it really highlights the flavor okay wow Wow Aroma all that the earthiness coming through back up your nose wow the butter man that’s good nothing is like this ever it’s so simple but relying on the trle on top of fond chees fond I think that’s a perfect example of white Trel it’s the Simplicity not

Covered up by anything but just the full potential okay next up we have the the Roto truffle is already mixed in that’s a ravioli the texture of that Roto really chewy almost crunchy a little bit the thick Rich sauce very cheesy and again just Amplified by that

Aroma of the white truffle moving back to the pasta I prefer the pasta with the white truffle over Theo I think it pears better for me that pasta is amazing how much trle do you want more a few more slices please this is the Pini mushroom okay

That’s good oh man that Aroma oh loaded up that’s a bite massive porini mushroom this is mushroom on top of mushroom fungi on top of fungi of a legendary bite wow man that is Sensational nothing else quite like that bite oh the potini is amazing straight up

Steak that is a generous portion of truffle the most trule I’ve ever had on one bite of food in my life got to go via the Nose wow I think this is the last main course that we got and that is just the epitome of Simplicity straight up two fried eggs and that’s like one of the classic recipes too to use utilize white truffle just on the egg eggs eggs and truffle break the Yol break the

Yolk so much truffle truffle truffle egg cheers Kevin that’s that’s good the egginess with the yolk and then the TR Aroma the yolk really pairs well and white truffles nice and light yeah you ready let’s go for okay wow wow amazing oh man oh that beef okay

Juice make sure you get a truffle on that bite as well a slice of the Truffle you ready cheers oh man definitely the best dish of the day wow by far hum monsterized guys that is amazing that’s like the me of the filo the metin of the Truffle yeah oh that’s

Really good this is gorgeous wow and broccoli the legend first vegetable leg of the day as well and Jeffrey and the food food no fine fine dining expor Explorer and unbelievable that’s extraordinary day that’s extraordinary we still have some truffle left what do we do what do we do what do

We do TR here’s the Finale oh nice shaving skills what do you do with that Mark the aroma straight perfume yeah straight well actually the smell is stronger than the taste again it’s all about that smell you got the most fancy panac in the world the yeah that’s the bounciest thing I’ve ever seen I can’t believe it

Doesn’t over how is that even possible the most bounciest the bounciest yeah it’s the bounciest dessert I’ve ever seen it has to be the stretchiest dessert ever and we got some cheese oh truffle on the panata we could take that with us for dinner today 28 this has to be the world’s wobbly

Dessert the jigglin and here we go dessert panata with white Shuffle to end the meal oh man that’s good insanely creamy sweet the caramel the rum of the Truffle my last bite cheese with truffle so good oh man oh that’s really good as well sticky rich and creamy that’s the most truffle of any meal I’ve ever had probably will ever have in my [Applause] life it’s a lot colder out here now uh but we finished with lunch that was an incredible experience and and I think that’s the only meal I’ve ever had in my life that totally revolved that was totally dedicated to truffle and I’ve one of the takeaways I have is that I

Really like it with pasta and with eggs with the risoto and some other dishes not as much but with the pasta absolutely amazing from here we’re driving back to Alba town and we’re going to go to the Alba truffle Festival it’s a beautiful town a UNESCO world heritage site and we’re walking on our way to the Alba truffle Fair which is one of the main places for trade where people come together to trade to sell Alba white Truffles in search of truffles man the town is beautiful and then the streets are just filled with a market all sorts of clothes almost everything you can think of to buy is available and I think we’re oh yeah I think I can smell the the truffles I got

A whiff I think we’re getting close we’re in We Made It welcome to the international Alba white truffle Fair oh oh oh that smells good oh all right so so smelling is totally normal and and very uh like acceptable and it’s quite important to buy in this market I told you there are 180 different type of tuber and it is a tuber manum Pico highly price so you

Need to got the real one so you need to smell man that smells incredible again I think what’s great about this truffle Market is that you’re directly supporting the vendors and they are some of the Truffle Hunters as well that that go and harvest the truffles themselves

And then it’s also a very reliable sour because I mean this is these your truffles they’re extremely expensive and so this is a source where you can come where they’re guaranteed authentic reliable oh this is and these are the real truffles contest giant 638 G 88 G

So this is the real auction and the biggest truffles of the today 88 G all right there there goes my there goes your annual bonus annual bonus right so Kevin Kevin what did you what did you get Kevin I said spend €700 at the end almost 700 yeah for 150 g of

Trols uh one of the owners at a hazelnut Farm has invited me for some hazelnut tasting and Alba is well this entire region is home to some of the best hazelnuts in the world I would like just to introduce you our farm we are located in alanga we are

Behind the bolo hills around 800 M up the sea the perfect spot to grow Hazen nuts after that we harvest the Hazen nuts I remember you that we are organic we dry the Hazen nuts here in our porch okay the raw Hazen nuts so this is not

Roasted okay let’s try so hazelnuts I love hazelnuts these are the raw hazelnuts after oh excellent we continue we continue with the roasted hazut roasted hazelnut we roasted the hazel nuts in the laboratory they’re really sweet crun yeah sweet so fragrant and of course we continue with

The caramelized Hazen nuts so we car we caramelize the Hazen nuts with the brown sugar okay it is like roasted two times thank try it oh I love it too not too sweet just that that sugar coating and of course the chocolate T keep coming chocolate hazut now you are

In my trap the hazut Trap yes here we go the chocolate hazut and this is covered by made chocolate oh that’s amazing we continue with our spread so our region here okay are really famous about the spread we cannot say any name but you can understand yes okay

This is our spread chocolate chocolate hazelnut spread exactly here we use 65% Haz nuts cacao and Agave so here when you try it you can really feel the taste of the Haz nuts oh the chocolate the hazelnut paste wow that’s superb some of the greatest hazelnuts you’ll ever eat in your life

And what is the name again it’s alanga and here we have Mr caloto that is the founder of our farm amazing thank you so much thank you very much thank what’s your name Mark Mark nice to meet you thank you a pleasure oh there it is the

Pasta so aromatic so also at the Truffle Fair they also happen to have a convenient kind of a food court area where you can order where you can taste the truffles so Jeffrey just ordered us some pasta okay mix it oh man the aroma again as soon as it hits that that

Pasta oh the slice the aroma Cheers Cheers oh my god oh it’s so good so pure just a past the butter highlighting again the Trel baroo Baro God bless Alba just amazing how such a little truffle can provide such a intense aromatic experience and again just like eating at boio it’s that

Aroma again I’ve said Aroma like the most times I’ve ever said in my life is stronger than the actual taste but it just Powers this entire bowl of past oh we’re getting a reup on the truffles King of the haut giving you some TR the king of hazut he is the king

Of hazelnuts yes hazelnuts more stop let’s get it going man the king of Hazel he just he just bought us more truffle to shave on what a what a top Man Alba has been amazing and for me it was a truly learning educational experience about white truffles the most I’ve ever had ever in my entire life I’ll have all the information in the description box below but this Italian food tour continues so be sure to stay

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