Especially worth your dough here are the Macrina Casera ("of this house" bread made w/a natural wild starter created from organic grapes) and the oatmeal buttermilk bread (ideal for sandwich making). Read more.
Eating at the wood-topped bar with a view of the kitchen and sharing family-style hand-cut egg pasta with butter and sage is about as close to Piedmont, Italy, as you'll get without a passport. Read more.