Food & Dining
- Historic Trattoria
Antica Trattoria della Pesa
A trattoria unchanged since it opened in 1880 on the site of Milan's old customs weighing station, once a hideout for a young Ho Chi Minh.
- Historic Restaurant
Antico Ristorante Boeucc
Milan's oldest restaurant, tracing back to a small tavern founded in 1696, now serving classic Milanese cuisine from the former stables of Palazzo Belgioioso.
- Historic Bar
Bar Basso
The Milanese cocktail bar where bartender Mirko Stocchetto invented the Negroni Sbagliato in 1972, at its Via Plinio address since 1947.
- Historic Bar
Camparino in Galleria
Milan's oldest bar, opened by Davide Campari in 1915 in a corner of the Galleria, with Art Nouveau fittings from the 1920s and a claim to the birth of the aperitivo.
- Gelateria
Gelateria Marghera
A family-run gelateria opened in 1979 by Angelo Pravettoni, among the first in Milan to sell nothing but gelato, still on the same street corner four decades later.
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La Latteria di San Marco
A tiny Brera trattoria run by Arturo and Maria Maggi since 1965, famous for its vegetable-forward menu, its refusal to take reservations, and its eight or nine tables.
- Street Food
Luini
Milan's most famous panzerotto shop, frying and baking stuffed dough pockets behind the Duomo since 1888, eaten standing in the street straight from the paper wrapper.
- Osteria
Osteria del Treno
A restaurant since 1989 inside a Liberty-style former railway workers' social club near Stazione Centrale, serving slow-food takes on Milanese and Lombard cuisine.
- Historic Pastry Shop
Pasticceria Cova
A literary café founded in 1817 by a Napoleonic soldier turned pastry chef, once a post-theatre haunt for Verdi and Puccini, now on Via Montenapoleone under LVMH.
- Historic Pastry Shop
Pasticceria Cucchi
A pastry shop and café on the Navigli since 1936, rebuilt after wartime bombing and still run by the founding family, known for its panettone and aperitivo hour.
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Pasticceria Marchesi
A pastry shop founded in 1824, known for its panettone and Art Deco interiors, now part of the Prada Group with outposts inside the Galleria and on Montenapoleone.
- Gelateria
Rinomata Gelateria
An old-fashioned family gelateria on the corner of the Darsena and Naviglio Grande, its wood-and-brass interior unchanged for decades, known for creamy gelato and crepes.
- Trattoria
Trattoria da Abele
A neighbourhood trattoria in the NoLo district known as "la risotteria" for a menu that lists over 600 risotto recipes, dinner-only and closed Mondays.
- Historic Trattoria
Trattoria del Nuovo Macello
A Porta Vittoria trattoria open since 1928 near the old municipal slaughterhouse, run by the Traversone family since the late 1950s and still built on Milanese classics.
- Historic Trattoria
Trattoria della Madonnina
A trattoria tracing back to a 1722 inn near the Navigli, its dining room virtually unchanged since 1954, once the meeting place of tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Maria Callas.
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Trattoria Masuelli San Marco
A family trattoria opened in 1921 by Piedmontese migrants, still run by their descendants on Viale Umbria and still serving the same Lombard and Piedmontese classics.