In central Milan, Affittacamere Scacco Matto is 400 metres from Loreto Metro Station and a 15-minute walk from Milano Centrale Train Station. Rooms have...

This kitsch, baroque disco pub is a major meeting point on via Sammartini. It runs themed evenings for the boys, like striptease contests on Friday nights....

The Agape Hotel is set in a quiet area of Milan, just 20 metres away from the metro. Relax in the hotel’s comfortable rooms with free Wi-Fi connection....

The 'Happy Cod' is always packed to the gills, so book ahead. Sicilian favourites like arancini (fried rice balls) make for tasty first courses, but the...

Set in Milan’s city centre, just 600 metres from Milan Central Station, Albergo Salerno offers rooms with air conditioning. Corso Buenos Aires shopping...

Located next to Milan Central Station, the Albert offers modern rooms with air-conditioning and a flat-screen TV. The hotel includes a reading room with...

This largish site doubles as a disco and concert venue (mainly on Monday and Thursday nights). It's in a converted industrial space away from the city...

Coppola, who opened his first salon in Milan in 1965, now has nine across town, including this funky outpost on the top floor of La Rinascente department...

Alessi's Milan flagship store - not far from the main household designer street, via Durini - has everything the company has ever done in bright plastic and...

Away from its mystical monasteries and romantic alleyways, Lago d'Orta is home to a doyen of international design. Alessi (they of the Starck-designed,...

Milan's Middle Eastern restaurants are thin on the ground, but this is good one: Ali Baba has some of the finest meze we have tasted. Its set selection for...

The meraviglie - or wonders - that await the guest at this lovely B&B, just off via Dante, are six inviting rooms with bright white beds, lavish silk...

A line of brightly coloured, alternative shoes first launched in Rome in 2004; the Milan branch opened in spring 2008. Designs include chunky wedges and...

This little store supplies a good range of popular English-language novels. Even better is its used book section, sold at €2.90 apiece.