This Sicilian seafood specialist feels like a gentleman's club: past the golden doorbell and leather chesterfields lies an extremely elegant dining room...
Via Goldoni 44The '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...
Via Lazzaro Papi 6Milan'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...
Via Cadore 26
Our top pick for sampling Milanese food, located in a 19th-century weigh station. It has friendly service, a cosy ambiance and some of the finest funghi...
Viale Pasubio 10Raw fish just doesn't get more fashionable than the sushi at the Milan outpost of Nobuyuki Matsuhisa's restaurant empire. Purists will say the food isn't as...
Via Pisoni 1
The slogan on the awning at Bar della Crocetta is 'dove il panino è arte' (where the sandwich is art). The menu lists over 100 panini, but you're welcome to...
Corso di Porta Romana 67
A short walk from the Darsena, this art deco-ish pizzeria serves up large, thin-crusted pizzas and a devilishly good assortment of primi. Be Bop uses no...
Viale Col di Lana 4It would be easy to pigeonhole the Bistrot Triennale Bovisa as a haven designed exclusively for the city's art and fashion gang. But although the...
Via Lambruschini 31A discreet, 'old money' establishment, a block away from the HQs of several of Italy's banks. The dark-suited financiers doing deals over a salver of fine...
Piazza Belgioioso 2With an ambience that evokes dining in a pal's kitchen, the Cozzeria serves variations on just one basic dish: buckets of mussels, with a side of chips,...
Via Muratori 6
The Triennale's old café has been given a total overhaul by architect Michele De Lucchi, to become the latest feather in chef Cracco's cap. Cracco Coffee...
TriennaleCracco-Peck's creative menu is custom-made for Milan's expense account diners. The two Michelin stars and consistently high ratings in the Italian Gambero...
Via Victor Hugo 4Da Claudio is a consummate fishmonger with a major sideline in fresh seafood. The weak nautical decor doesn't detract from the lovingly prepared platters of...
Via Ponte Vetero 16It looks unremarkable on the outside: an anonymous trattoria in an anonymous street. But this is one of Milan's most exclusive (though by no means most...
Via P Sottocorno 6Barely changed since 1963, Da Giannino L'Angolo d'Abruzzo is, as its name suggests, a typical Abruzzese diner: hot, busy, and redolent of grilled meat....
Via Rosolino Pilo 20