The Top 100 Places to Eat Near La Coldana
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Rank 2. La Kuccagna
Modern Italian
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Rank 3. Trattoria Via Vai
Lombardian Italian
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Enrico Bartolini holds three Michelin stars and runs this fine dining room on the third floor of Milan's Museum of Cultures, which gives dinner a certain gallery-adjacent seriousness before you've even sat down. The cooking is creative without being punishing about it: flavors run deep and layered, but following them is optional. Tasting menus and à la carte both available, and an off-menu cheese course with unusual pairings is worth asking about.
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Rank 5. Andrea Aprea
Contemporary Italian
The dining room walls are lined with bucchero, the same matte black ceramic the Etruscans used for their jars, which sets a tone. This two-Michelin-star restaurant sits atop the Fondazione Luigi Rovati, reached by lift, with the whole room angled toward an open kitchen. Chef Andrea Aprea, Neapolitan by birth and Milanese by long habit, runs tasting menus that move between his latest ideas and the Campanian classics he grew up with.
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Rank 6. Verso Capitaneo
Creative Mediterranean
A lift from Piazza del Duomo deposits you on the second floor, where long communal tables face an open kitchen and the brothers from Puglia run the show. This is a two Michelin star creative restaurant where the cooking moves between their southern roots and the culinary habits of their adopted Milan. Sit close to the kitchen to watch the passes, or claim a quieter table if you'd rather just eat.
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Inside the Mandarin Oriental, Seta holds two Michelin stars and runs on the quiet confidence that comes with them. Antonio Guida's fine dining room takes Milan's cosmopolitan appetite seriously, offering tasting menus built around his classics, the season, or a single featured ingredient. Winter brings game and veal sweetbreads alongside a raspberry risotto that sounds wrong and isn't. The wine list runs deep, with magnums of serious vintages for the table feeling optimistic.
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Rank 8. San Martino
Seafood
The cheese trolley arrives like a minor ceremony, and the seafood plateau before it is the kind of thing that makes the table go quiet. San Martino is a grand, old-school fine dining restaurant holding a Michelin star, where the front of house knows every guest's name before they've sat down and the chef moves between classic house dishes and newer plates without breaking a sweat. The wine list leans heavily French, with serious bottles available by the glass.
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Rank 9. IYO Kaiseki
Kaiseki Japanese
Floor-to-ceiling windows flood a spare, minimal dining room at the base of a Porta Nuova tower, where a Michelin-starred kaiseki restaurant works through the full arc of Japanese cuisine, raw to cooked. The chef's menu moves from sashimi and nigiri into traditional preparations, including Iberian pork with negimiso sauce served on a magnolia leaf. A separate omakase counter runs its own show by reservation, worth booking before you arrive.
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Rank 10. Berton
Contemporary Italian
Andrea Berton's Michelin-starred fine dining room sits in Porta Nuova, Milan's glassy, self-consciously futuristic quarter, which suits the aesthetic perfectly. The kitchen works with very few ingredients at a time, letting each one carry weight rather than hiding behind complexity. The "Non Solo Brodo" menu, built around broths poured tableside or served in a glass alongside the plate, has become the signature move, quiet and theatrical at once.
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Rank 11. Sine by Di Pinto
Contemporary Italian
A fried pizzetta topped with palamita fish and courgettes tells you where the chef's heart is, even if Milan is where the restaurant landed. This is a Michelin-starred contemporary Italian dining room where Naples and Lombardy argue it out on the plate, and the kitchen clearly enjoys the argument. The tasting menu, called "Sine Confini," is where the more ambitious ideas surface. Service is attentive without being stiff, and the wine list leans toward labels you won't recognize.
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A table by the arched window looks straight into the Galleria's iron-and-glass octagon, which is reason enough to book weeks ahead. This is a formal fine dining restaurant, Michelin-starred, where the kitchen works through tasting menus and à la carte built around contemporary Italian cooking, vitello alla Milanese among them. The wine list leans heavily French and runs deep, with pours by the glass for those unwilling to commit to a bottle.
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Rank 13. Ichikawa
Japanese
A sushi restaurant in Porta Romana where the case for Japanese traditionalism is made quietly, through precise knife work and clean preparations that don't need architectural plating to make their point. An omakase counter lets you watch the chef work up close. The sake selection is taken seriously alongside the wine list, and tempura with wasabi salt has a way of settling any doubts about the kitchen's priorities.
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Rank 14. Trippa
Italian
The Milanese trattoria that put tripe back on the map, bare tables and all. Offal is the north star here, from fried tripe to grilled marrow to horse tartare, though the butter and Parmesan tagliatelle has quietly become the dish regulars argue about most. The chef trained in Michelin-starred kitchens and then chose to do the opposite of what that implies. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and a waiting list that confirms Milan has opinions about lunch.
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A courtyard tucked inside a period building gives Contraste an air of old Milan before the room itself surprises you with bold blues, reds, and greens. It holds a Michelin star, and the chef, Matias Perdomo, runs two tasting menus: one anchored in tradition, one decidedly not. The wine list leans French, the team steers pairings with genuine care, and the whole thing lands somewhere between a dinner party and a quiet dare.
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Rank 16. Joia
Vegetarian
Dishes named "With the Favour of the Moon" and "The Rose I Did Not Pick" give you a sense of what kind of vegetarian fine dining this is: philosophical, a little rapturous, and genuinely pretty on the plate. Pietro Leemann built the room around the idea that meatless cooking could carry the full weight of Italian fine dining, and it holds a Michelin star. Tasting menus set the pace; a five-course lunch plate keeps midday from turning devotional.
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Norbert Niederkofler's Milanese outpost holds a Michelin star and a firm rule: every ingredient has to come from within an hour of the city. The result is a fine dining restaurant running three tasting menus that lean into the Alpine-meets-Lombardy larder with a seriousness that stops just short of a lecture. In summer, the terrace opens up a view across the Duomo spires to the Castello, which does a lot of the convincing on its own.
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Rank 18. Sadler
Italian
The colourful armchairs are the first thing you notice in an otherwise composed, elegant dining room inside a Casa Baglioni hotel. This is Michelin-starred Italian fine dining with a leaning toward seafood, and the kitchen keeps one foot in tradition while quietly pushing the other somewhere new. The wine list runs deep into rare Italian labels for anyone who wants to go down that road.
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Rank 19. Trattoria del Nuovo Macello
Modern Italian
A cotoletta so thick it borders on a statement, this is a modern trattoria that takes Milanese cooking seriously without taking itself too seriously. Risotto alla milanese, ravioli, the classics are all here, restated with care rather than reinvented beyond recognition. The room is warm and unhurried, the kind of place where the service feels like it knows you even on a first visit. An extensive wine list keeps things moving.
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The sushi counter runs omakase only, eight to eleven courses, no à la carte wandering allowed. This is a contemporary Japanese restaurant where the chef moves between raw fish and Angus beef with equal confidence, folding miso, truffle, and yuzu into the through-line. The room reads like a serious night out in Milan, dressed up but not stiff. A Michelin Guide selection, and ranked among Italy's top sushi spots by 50 Top Italy.
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Rank 21. Altatto
Vegetarian
A small, intimate vegetarian bistro in the Navigli area where the two chefs change the menu regularly enough that returning feels like a different meal. Tasting menus run four or nine courses, and staff walk through each dish with the kind of attention that could tip into earnest if the food weren't so good-looking. The Michelin Guide has selected it, and 50 Top Italy ranks it first among vegetable bistros.
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Rank 22. Anima
Modern New American
The decor draws on Gio Ponti's mid-century Milan, all clean lines and considered restraint. This is a fine dining restaurant inside the Milano Verticale hotel, run under Enrico Bartolini's umbrella with a resident chef whose roots in Puglia show up in unusually confident vegetable cookery and housemade bread. It holds a Michelin star. The cocktail list ventures well beyond the obligatory Negroni, which is either a bonus or a warning, depending on your evening.
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Rank 23. Autem*
Tuscan
The menu is handwritten and changes with whatever came in that morning, which tells you what kind of restaurant this is before you've sat down. A small, softly lit Tuscan trattoria in Milan, Autem runs on the chef's personal flair, from the open kitchen where he greets you to the table where he'll likely check in himself. The cooking is focused and unhurried, the kind that makes a short menu feel like a considered edit rather than a limitation.
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A marble counter with velvet stools runs along the open kitchen, and before you even sit down the team steers you toward a welcome drink, because this Michelin-starred contemporary restaurant also has the soul of a cocktail bar. Chef Emin Haziri, raised in Italy after growing up in Kosovo, runs a menu that splits between inventive modern cooking and raw seafood, oysters to caviar to Sicilian shrimp. Live piano fills the room.
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Rank 25. IYO
Contemporary Japanese
The robatayaki grill is going at this sleek, Michelin-starred Japanese contemporary restaurant in a quiet corner of Milan, which has quietly become the city's benchmark for serious Japanese cooking. The menu moves from sushi and sashimi through light tempura to the open fire, with a fusion of Japanese and European ideas that feels considered rather than compromised. Lunch runs à la carte; dinner leans into tasting menus.
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Rank 26. Terrazza Gallia
Modern Italian
On the seventh floor of the Excelsior Hotel Gallia, with the central station rooftops spreading out below, Terrazza Gallia is a fine dining room where the kitchen leans Mediterranean and the Campanian chef's flavors run rich and direct. Fendi and Busnelli furnished the space, which tips from glamorous at lunch to genuinely cinematic at sunset. The wine list is impressive and priced to match the view.
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Rank 27. Il Luogo Aimo e Nadia
Modern Italian
A plate of hard wheat spaghetti with spring onion, chilli, and Ligurian basil has been on this menu since the founder was in the kitchen, which tells you something about the confidence here. It's a Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant that has been around forever, yet the two tasting menus still feel alive, drawing on both Lombard and Apulian roots. The wine list, browsed on tablets, turns up bottles that are nearly impossible to find elsewhere.
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Rank 28. La Palta
Regional Italian
From the road it reads as a farmhouse; inside, an elegant dining room opens into a garden-facing veranda with the Piacenza hills soft on the horizon. This is country cooking grown into something more considered, with a Michelin star and the focaccia with ciccioli that locals will tell you not to skip. The chef's tasting menus lean creative without performing tricks, and a dedicated pasta menu is available on request for those with the right priorities.
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Rank 29. La Fortuna
Modern Italian
A contemporary trattoria a short drive outside Crema, with a minimalist room lifted by pops of colour. The kitchen leans on Italian tradition, leaning further into modern technique as the week winds toward the weekend. The wine list splits evenly between Italian and French labels, with a serious run of champagnes for a room this unfussy. Weekday lunches are the quiet bargain the locals already know about.
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Rank 30. Abba
Modern New American
A former brush factory in the Certosa District, now eight widely spaced tables, an open kitchen, and enough Nordic minimalism to make you sit up straight. Abba holds a Michelin star for cooking that leans modern and precise, the kind where tomato water risotto arrives looking deceptively simple and tastes nothing of the sort. The room is quiet enough that you can hear the chef think.
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Rank 31. Antica Osteria La Rampina
Lombardian Italian
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Rank 32. Anima Romita
Contemporary Pizza
A pizza spot in Crema where the music is curated as carefully as the dough, and events are part of the identity rather than an afterthought. The Tramonti line uses a rustic wholemeal base with a faint fennel note, and the fried starters, particularly the arancino, hold their own. Slices come traditional or contemporary, and the kitchen leans into cocktail pairings with some conviction. Relaxed but put-together, the kind of place that takes pizza seriously without taking itself too seriously.
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Rank 33. Dongiò
Calabrian
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Rank 35. Da Giannino - L'Angolo d'Abruzzo
Abruzzo Italian
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A Neapolitan-style pizzeria in Melegnano's old center, where the dough gets the obsessive treatment: long leavening, DOP-certified toppings, and a crust that holds together even cold. The menu is short, which is usually a good sign. Seasonal specials rotate in alongside the regulars, and the artisanal draft beer list is taken as seriously as the pizza. Quick, young staff keep things moving at a pace that feels deliberate rather than rushed.
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Rank 39. Confine
Pizza
A pizzeria where you can order a single slice à la carte or surrender to a tasting flight of four to six courses, each a different style of pizza served in sequence. The wine cellar is the quietly absurd part: a selection of bottles and champagnes that would embarrass most fine-dining rooms. Classic pies sit alongside fried and baked options, and the dough holds up its end. Ranked first on 50 Top Pizza Italy.
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Rank 40. Asina Luna
Steakhouse
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Orders go through a window cut into the wall, which tells you everything about the format before you've even looked at the menu. Katsusanderia is a Japanese street food counter in Milan serving sando on housemade bread, rice bowls, and sides like potato salad and eggplant in sesame sauce. The drinks run to Japanese beer and sake, nothing fussier. It's a long way from the all-you-can-eat circuit, and the sandwiches are substantial enough that you won't need a second lunch.
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Rank 42. Cut
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 43. La Braseria
Meats and Grills, Mediterranean Cuisine
The dry-ageing chambers are visible from the dining room, which tells you exactly what kind of place La Braseria is before anyone hands you a menu. This meat-focused restaurant near Bergamo sources Italian breeds and in-house ages the beef before it meets a wood and charcoal grill. Warm stone, low light, and a team that knows the wine list cold. It ranked 39th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, if that helps calibrate the occasion.
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Rank 44. Da Giacomo
Lombardian Italian
A walled medieval town split by the Adda River is an unlikely setting for a restaurant that pairs rustic stone interiors with modern plating, yet here we are. Tables spill under a portico in warmer months, and the kitchen leans into Lombardian cooking, lightening and modernising it without losing the thread. The wine list has been assembled slowly over years, and it shows.
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Rank 45. Antico Albergo
Italian
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Rank 46. Marelet
Modern Mediterranean
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Rank 47. Cascina Moro
Mediterranean
A restored farmhouse on the Milanese plain where the dining room centers on a large stone fireplace and the wine cellar is open for a wander before you eat. This is a classic countryside restaurant, the kind that splits its menu between Mediterranean fish dishes and old Lombard meat preparations without making a fuss about either. The glass-enclosed veranda works in every season, and the cellar gives serious wine drinkers something to argue about on the way in.
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A butcher shop counter tucked into the municipal market by the Darsena canal, where the menu board lists sandwiches alongside grilled cuts and meatballs, and the meat is organic and pasture-raised. The chef will talk you through it if you stall at the board, which you probably will. Priced higher than the setting suggests, though the setting is a working market stall, so adjust expectations accordingly.
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Rank 49. Macelleria Motta
Italian
The large fridge near the entrance does the menu explaining before you've sat down, stacked with dry-aged cuts and house-cured salumi. This is a Lombard butcher-restaurant where Piedmontese beef is the point, grilled over coals or served boiled in the old style. In summer the courtyard fills up and the place feels like the kind of lunch that quietly takes the whole afternoon.
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Rank 50. Locanda Viola
Contemporary Italian
The fish bao that opens the menu, a soft steamed bun served alongside empanadas filled with smoked cheese and shrimp, signals that this contemporary Italian restaurant in a small Bergamo-area town is doing something more roaming than the address suggests. Pastas and risottos anchor the middle, and Bergamo lamb brings it home before gelato closes things out. The handcrafted furniture is its own conversation starter, but the kitchen tends to win.
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Rank 51. L’île Douce
French Bakery
A French-leaning pastry shop run by an Italian chef whose heart landed somewhere between Paris and Lyon. The chocolate work is the draw, with single-origin bars appearing in multiple textures across a single slice. The tiramisù ranks among Italy's finest by 50 Top Italy's count. Jar-baked leavened desserts, including panettone and babà, fill out the counter for anyone who thought they'd only stop in for coffee.
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Rank 52. Trattoria la Colonna
Traditional Seafood
A trattoria on the main road through San Nicolò that has built its reputation almost entirely on fish, which is an unlikely move this far inland in Emilia-Romagna. The dining room was recently done up, though the cooking stays traditional. Weekday lunches lean simpler; evenings open into a longer menu if you ask. Sunday winters bring a full meat feast, from anolini in broth to boiled meats, that the regulars have clearly memorized.
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Gluten-free, fully vegan, and somehow not the least bit preachy about either, Linfa is a plant-based restaurant in Milan where soft colors, scattered greenery, and a lounge vibe make the room feel more like somewhere you'd linger than somewhere you'd atone. The menu swings from pasta to sushi to a vegetable riff on a flambéed steak, which is the kind of range that keeps skeptics at the table. An eight-course tasting menu runs alongside à la carte.
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Rank 55. Il Capestrano
Abruzzo Italian
A stone warrior from 500 BC lends his name to this Milanese trattoria devoted entirely to Abruzzo, a region whose cooking doesn't often make it this far north. The menu leans on small producers: aged hams, aged cheeses, mutton, lamb cooked a few different ways, and grilled skewers that smell like a country feast. If you thought Abruzzo was mainly a wine footnote, this place quietly argues otherwise.
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Rank 56. Kanton Restaurant
Chinese
Desserts arrive on a tray rather than a menu, which sets the tone for a Chinese restaurant that does things its own way. The kitchen keeps the menu short and fragrant, drawing on classic techniques without sprawling into the encyclopedic approach most spots lean on. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, earned in a business district that gives nothing away from the outside. The tea list alone is worth the detour from Milan.
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Rank 57. Un Posto a Milano
Contemporary Italian
A farm-to-table trattoria tucked inside Cascina Cuccagna, a working urban farm where the farmers' market smell drifts in from next door and a carpentry workshop hums nearby. The kitchen leans on seasonal and organic ingredients, cooking Italian classics on a charcoal grill, the kind of place where lunch outdoors feels genuinely removed from the city even though Milan's buildings frame every view.
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Rank 58. Antica Osteria il Ronchettino
Milanese Italian
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Rank 59. Izu
Contemporary Japanese
A recently refurbished Japanese restaurant on Corso Lodi that now reads more like a sleek bistro than a sushi counter, which turns out to suit it. The menu runs through the classics, sashimi and uramaki and the like, alongside the kitchen's own creations and some Mediterranean-leaning detours. The wine list comes with a few sakes, overseen by a sommelier who has clearly done the homework.
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A sandwich shop in Milan built around one very specific idea: pork from Sienese and Chianina pigs, raised outdoors in Tuscany, smoked over fruit wood, slow-cooked for twelve hours, then finished on oak. The bread comes from ancient Verna wheat, and you pick your sauce from a short list of house-made options. The queue tends to answer any remaining questions you might have.
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Rank 63. L’Alchimia
Contemporary Italian
Parquet floors, wood beams, and exposed brick give this contemporary Italian restaurant a warmth that shifts from bright and airy at lunch to quietly romantic by evening. The menu moves between classic Italian recipes and more personal, chef-driven dishes, all leaning on quality seasonal ingredients. A small brick-vaulted wine cellar sits below, open to the curious, and an adjacent bar-bistro handles aperitivo hour with equal seriousness.
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Rank 64. La Cantina di Manuela
Milanese Italian
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Rank 65. Gong
Contemporary Chinese
Full-size bronze gongs anchor the room at this sleek contemporary Chinese restaurant near Porta Venezia, setting a tone that's somewhere between meditative and quietly theatrical. The menu runs Chinese traditional with a modern edge, and the staff will walk you through it without being asked. A whole tasting menu dedicated to Peking duck suggests the kitchen knows where its strengths lie.
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A courtyard at the back opens up in warm weather, and it's the kind of detail that turns a competent dinner into a whole evening. This is a proper sit-down restaurant in the center of Stradella, serving classic Italian cooking nudged gently toward the contemporary, land and sea trading places across the menu. The room is put together with quiet care, and the service has enough warmth to make you feel noticed without making you feel managed.
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Rank 67. Dim Sum
Contemporary Cantonese
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A small, packed seasonal restaurant in Milan where the menu leans heavily vegetarian and changes with what the land is actually doing. The kitchen calls its philosophy "cuisine with roots," and the short menu earns the phrase: a handful of dishes built around freshness and the kind of layered flavors that take real thought. Book ahead for the evening, or you will be eating elsewhere.
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Rank 71. Antica Osteria Moirago
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 72. Antica Osteria del Mare
Mediterranean Seafood
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Rank 73. [bu:r]
Creative Italian
An aromatic-herb tasting menu sitting alongside a meat-focused one is an unusual way to organize a fine-dining restaurant, and it tells you something about how the chef here thinks. Eugenio Boer's creative Italian cooking leans hard on small producers and classic dishes, then quietly dismantles both in the same bite. The à la carte keeps things flexible for anyone not committing to a full menu.
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Rank 74. Sushi Matsu Omakase
Omakase Sushi
Fourteen seats arranged in a horseshoe around two chefs is the whole architecture of this intimate omakase counter, where every piece of fish is shaped in front of you and the conversation with the chefs is considered part of the meal. Eating with your hands is encouraged, sake by the glass pairs naturally with the progression, and the lunch menu runs shorter if the full ritual feels like a commitment.
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Rank 75. Osteria del Trentino - Da Marco
Emilian Italian
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Rank 76. DaV by Da Vittorio Louis Vuitton
Contemporary Italian
The Cerea family, who built their reputation in Bergamo, opened this contemporary Italian restaurant tucked behind a Louis Vuitton flagship in the fashion district. The room splits between a buzzy ground floor and a quieter mezzanine, and the look is elegant bistro rather than runway-adjacent minimalism. The menu runs Italian classics reinterpreted with a light modern hand, plus a chef's tasting option for the table that came to commit.
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Rank 78. Saur
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 79. Le Nove Scodelle
Sichuan
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Rank 80. Frades Porto Cervo
Sardinian
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Rank 81. ZELO
Modern New American
A 15th-century inner courtyard, a summer terrace, and a menu that manages to feature both vitello tonnato and raw seafood without an identity crisis. ZELO is a modern Italian restaurant on one of Milan's quieter luxury streets, where the kitchen leans creative but keeps a few classics around for the table that just wants braised veal. Lunch skews lighter; dinner is when the raw fish comes out. The setting does a lot of the work, and the setting is very good.
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The first-floor dining room looks straight out at the Duomo and the Galleria, which does make it harder to concentrate on the menu. Chef Valerio Braschi runs a contemporary Italian restaurant where the kitchen moves between Milanese classics and South American and Asian detours, reinterpreting a costoletta alla milanese alongside chimichurri-lifted calamari. The terrace upstairs is where most people end up at some point, aperitivo in hand, staring at the cathedral like it's their first time.
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Rank 83. La Società Milano
Mediterranean
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Rank 84. Lino Bistrot
Traditional Italian
The square outside was once a linen market, and the room itself has been a bank and a bookshop before settling into its current life as a casual Italian bistro. It shares a building with its fancier sibling, the fine dining Lino, but this place is the approachable one: honest, unfussy cooking presented with enough care that you notice. The crowd tends toward locals who know the neighbourhood and aren't performing a special occasion.
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You can walk in straight from the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which sets the tone immediately. This is the Park Hyatt's intimate fine dining restaurant, with contemporary art on the walls and service that knows exactly what it's doing. The kitchen runs two tasting menus, one a quiet love letter to Milan, the other following the season wherever it leads. The sommelier commands around 700 labels and seems genuinely happy to talk you through them.
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Rank 86. Voce Aimo e Nadia
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 87. Armani/Ristorante
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 88. Don Carlos
Milanese Italian
Portraits and sketches of opera singers line every wall of this intimate hotel dining room inside the Grand Hotel et de Milan, where Verdi himself was once a long-term guest. The kitchen turns out Milanese and Italian cooking with a Mediterranean lean, shaped by celebrated Neapolitan chef Gennaro Esposito in a consulting role. Jackets optional, but the room suggests you might want to try.
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The bar up front mixes cocktails while the dining room, minimal and elegant, handles something more considered: a modern Italian kitchen that moves between tradition and invention without making a fuss about it. It sits in a quietly residential corner of the city that fills up at dinner, making the few pavement tables feel like a bonus. The tarte Tatin has its own following.
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Rank 90. 28 Posti
Modern Italian
The name is the capacity: 28 seats in a quietly serious modern restaurant on Via Corsico. The kitchen buys from small producers, uses every scrap of what comes in, and has run that way long enough that it feels like conviction rather than a trend. The current chefs bring central Italian roots and Abruzzi instincts to the menu, which shifts with the season. The room is small enough that the team tends to know who ordered what without checking.
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The Art Deco dining room feels like it belongs in a different city than the menu, which is stubbornly, cheerfully Roman. This osteria and bar is the Milanese outpost of a Rome original, with carbonara, gricia, and saltimbocca holding firm against any northern influence. The bar side reportedly stocks more than 600 amari, which is either a boast or a threat, depending on how the evening goes.
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Rank 92. Il Ristorante - Niko Romito
Contemporary Italian
Inside the Bulgari hotel, tucked into Milan's jewelry district, this fine dining room runs on a philosophy of substance over spectacle, with Niko Romito's name above the door and a rotating cast of trusted chefs keeping the kitchen steady. The menu moves between tasting courses and a proper à la carte, with risotto and vitello alla Milanese holding their ground among the more contemporary Italian dishes.
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Rank 94. Bentōteca
Mediterranean Japanese
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Rank 95. Sant’Agostino
Seafood
A deconsecrated church and its cloister form the backdrop for this contemporary restaurant in Piacenza, where the terrace alone earns the reservation. The chef describes himself as a meat person, which makes it quietly amusing that the seafood is what stops conversation: a fish soup loaded with crustaceans, mussels, and cuttlefish that arrives tasting like someone meant it. Book outside when the weather cooperates.
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Rank 96. Rovello
Classic Italian
A counter where the kitchen plays out in front of you sets the tone at this Milan bistro, where grilled meat, fish, and vegetables get finished in plain sight. The menu is classic Italian, anchored by daily specials that shift with what's good, and the wine list runs deep enough to keep things interesting by the glass. The room is relaxed and sociable in the way that only a place that has clearly figured itself out tends to be.
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Rank 98. Sakeya
Contemporary Japanese
The yakitori grill sits right at the entrance so the smoke hits you before the host does. This is a Japanese contemporary restaurant where a Kyoto-born chef turns out kushiyaki skewers over open flame alongside wagyu cooked tableside over charcoal by the guest. One wall holds over 150 sake labels, refreshed weekly, and the sommelier has an opinion about all of them. The room is spare and calm, the kind of place that takes the food seriously without asking you to.
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Rank 99. Casa Camperio
Japanese-influenced Italian
Tucked into the basement of what is otherwise an office building in central Milan, this intimate restaurant and cocktail bar reinterprets Lombard cooking through a Japanese lens. Sharing snacks, raw dishes, and sushi rolls carry the cross-cultural idea most clearly, while a tight list of twelve house cocktails keeps the same thread going. The room is quiet enough that the food gets to do the talking.
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Rank 100. Dry Aged
Steakhouse