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Fancy food has never really taken off in Milan. Even Giorgio Armani eats at Da Giacomo, the favorite home-cooking haunt of the city's movers and shakers. Geared toward Milan's fog-bound winters rather than its sticky summers, this city's solid cooking is based on filling dishes like osso buco (braised veal shanks) and risotto alla milanese (chicken-broth risotto made fragrant with saffron). House wine might be a reliable white Franciacorta or a red Oltrepo Pavese, though more challenging vintages from Piedmont, Tuscany, or Alto Adige are also widely available. Dining times tend to be a shade earlier than in Rome or Florence, with lunch generally served between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. and dinner from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Dinner, and sometimes lunch, are usually preceded by that great Milanese institution, the aperitivo—a glass of sparkling wine or a Campari soda downed in a city-center bar or in more luxurious hotel surroundings (the Park Hyatt, the Bulgari, and the Diana Majestic are all popular stops on the city's after-work circuit).
Carla Sozzani's small retail, dining, and accommodations empire was the chicest address in town for a long time, and though it's pretty much relinquished its...more
Most of the time, fashion-industry people don't eat in the glitzy bars and restaurants they put their names to. They come to Da Giacomo instead. On an anonymous...more
The little mirror trays next to the hand basins in the restrooms say it all. They're ironic, of course (at least, we didn't see any telltale traces of white...more
One of the city's most original restaurants, the bistrolike Fioraio Bianchi Caffè occupies a former flower shop in the artsy, fashionista Brera district....more
Fast food doesn't come much tastier than this, in a rustic, home-cooking sort of way. Though it's had more than one makeover since opening in 1859, this tiny,...more
Design guru Rossana Orlandi opened this sophisticated shabby-chic trattoria next door to her warehouse showroom in November 2006. Previously a tobacconist's,...more
Probably the most famous Milanese chef after Gualtiero Marchesi, Claudio Sadler was sitting pretty with two Michelin stars and a suave city-center restaurant...more
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