The Best Vegetarian in Milan

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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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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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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