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The Place
Bar Torino opened its doors in May 2024 on North Third Street in downtown Easton, Pennsylvania, a block and a half from Centre Square. The restaurant was born from an eight-year vision held by Marc Devlin, a wine industry veteran with nearly three decades of experience.
Alongside his wife Maria, an Easton native, Devlin set out to build a place where friends and family could gather over thoughtfully crafted food, cult and classic wines, and an atmosphere that felt both familiar and unexpected.
The Oven
At the center of Bar Torino sits a Pavesi rotating pizza oven, imported from Modena, Italy. Pavesi has been handcrafting professional pizza ovens since 1969, and their hearths are found in some of the most respected pizzerias in the world.
The rotating deck ensures consistent cooking at temperatures that reach 625 degrees Fahrenheit, giving every pizza its signature char, structure, and character.
The pizza itself is a product of obsessive development: a 48-to-72-hour cold fermentation process that produces a dough with depth, structure, and a subtle complexity.
The Kitchen
Quality of ingredients is not a marketing phrase at Bar Torino. The restaurant goes through a half-wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano every two weeks. That is forty pounds of the world's most revered cheese.
The meatballs have become a signature: a blend of sixty percent pork shoulder and forty percent beef, bound with sourdough bread and spiked with sharp provolone.
The Wine
The name Bar Torino comes from Marc Devlin's favorite wine region in Italy: Turin, the capital of Piedmont, a region synonymous with Barolo, Barbaresco, and Nebbiolo.
Devlin's three decades in the wine industry inform every bottle on the list. The program focuses on natural, low-intervention wines from smaller-production boutique wineries, bottles you will not find at a Pennsylvania state store.
Adjacent to the dining room, the Bottle Shop occupies roughly 450 square feet of curated retail space. Guests can drink in, take home, or do both.
The Room
The space at 56 North Third Street was designed as a blank canvas, spare and contemporary, modern enough to feel fresh but restrained enough to let the energy of the people fill in the color.
Every design detail was chosen with intention. The EMECO Navy 111 chairs are constructed from 111 recycled Coca-Cola bottles, manufactured in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The crystal glassware is Ravenscroft, lead-free, because the quality of the glass matters.
Easton
Bar Torino is part of a downtown that has undergone one of the most remarkable renaissances of any small city in the northeastern United States. Easton was founded in 1752 at the confluence of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers.
In the early 2000s, there were fewer than ten restaurants in Easton's Main Street District. Today, the downtown is home to a thriving culinary ecosystem that has drawn comparisons to Brooklyn.
Bar Torino arrived into this momentum at the right moment, a concept that the city was ready for, in a building that was designed to hold it.
“A haven where friends and family could gather, immersing themselves in unexpected flavor experiences.”
Marc Devlin, Founder
