The most kissed
An endless success story since the early twentieth century, they have become delicious ambassadors of western Liguria throughout the world: Baci di Alassio of the Caffè Pasticceria Balzola.
Caffé pasticceria Balzola
Dal 1902
Alassio (SV)
Caffé pasticceria Balzola
Dal 1902
Alassio (SV)Ownership - Famiglia Balzola
Piazza G. Matteotti, 26, 17021 Alassio SV
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The “caffè concerto” in Italy was born here, in about 1920, with artists of the calibre of Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli. Maxim Gorky used to sit at a table in the eighteenthcentury Venetian room and talk with intellectuals from the English colony in Alassio. The delicacies created by Rinaldo Balzola, who had learnt the art from Gustavo Pfatisch in Turin and who had become head pastry cook for the Royal House of Savoy in 1929, even lured in D’Annunzio and Duse. The exquisite “Baci di Alassio” were patented in 1919. It is now run by the fourth generation.