This emporium is owned by former Italian Vogue editor Carla Sozzani. Prices are not for the faint- hearted, but the design overload is certainly a sight to behold. The...

Vogue readers on a budget should visit the 10 Corso Como Outlet, a slightly shabbier version of the ubercool original store, with endless racks of mostly black clothes by...

This Sicilian seafood specialist feels like a gentleman's club: past the golden doorbell and leather chesterfields lies an extremely elegant dining room (with pianist). At €8,...

You've browsed the boutique, gazed in the gallery and posed at the bar - and now you can even spend the night at Milan's multipurpose style emporium, 10 Corso Como. Describing...

Tucked round a corner just off corso di Porta Romana, Abside stocks a cool mix of own-brand clothes and jewellery, as well as unique pieces by other Italian and European...

A whacking great Poseidon guards the goldfish pond in front of this fun Parco Sempione freebie, which was reopened in 2006. The Aquarium's strong reliance on a handful of river...

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. It's a nice,...

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 speciality is...

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 centre, but is still...

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 store. The salon is...

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 polished steel,...

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, spindly legged juicer)...

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 two will leave you...

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 curtains and fresh...