The restaurant opens onto the portico of Piazza Vittorio Veneto. The bezel on the front door houses a sign painted with an advertising inscription of Ditta Carpano, famous for the production of vermouth, an aromatized wine created in 1786 in Turin. Between the two openings, two wall streetlights illuminate, in the summer, the outdoor area furnished with chromed metal and plastic armchairs from the fifties.
Inside the restaurant, a warm room preserves the wooden panelling with simple rectangular panels with two paintings by G.M.Bertagna, some tables with a rectangular or round top in red pebbles, and chairs and armchairs dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In its long history, Caffè Elena has also been the place loved and frequented by the famous writer Cesare Pavese. Today the restaurant offers the opportunity to taste the Turin pastry of the nineteenth century or have lunch with Piedmontese dishes, enjoying the splendid view of one of the most beautiful squares in Italy.
