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There's a wide range of restaurants in Milan to suit all tastes, and budgets.
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Il Baretto has been running for over fifty years, delighting the great and the good of the city for half a century. The sophisticated, old English club house decor is host to a refined menu taking cues from Milanese and international cuisine.
The elegant style and furnishings, the neoclassical pieces of art decorating the walls and the hand-painted high ceiling is a dramatic yet fitting setting for the fantastic food of the Palazzo Parigi restaurant. And when the weather is fine, the relaxed atmosphere of the private garden terrace provides an alternative atmosphere for visiting diners.
Part of the Armani Hotel Milan, this Michelin-starred restaurant takes a modern approach to classic Italian wining and dining. The stylish decor has been designed to the smallest detail by Giorgio Armani himself.
Located at the luxury Excelsior Gallia Hotel, this rooftop restaurant boasts a menu created under the consultancy of three-Michelin starred chefs Enrico and Roberto Cerea and the Lebano brothers. They serve modern Italian cuisine with a focus on the Lombardy region.
The 2-Michelin-starred Seta restaurant located in the Mandarin Oriental Milan hotel is a new kid on the block for the Milanese restaurant scene. An open-plan kitchen gives guests a peak of how the stunning dishes are prepared and a more complete experience to their choices.
This elegant and sophisticated restaurant is located in a luxury hotel right in the heart of Milan and has been awarded a Michelin star. They serve traditional Italian dishes with innovative touches using local fresh ingredients.
Michelin-starred experience that draws on the experimentation of the Venissa culinary approach. The enchanting decor completes the tone for dining in a very unique setting.
This family-run restaurant has been offering Tuscan cuisine for more than 50 years. Owners and chefs Aimo and Nadia show a great respect for the spectacular produce they serve, showcasing Italy's great culinary heritage in an innovative way.
Located in one of Milan's newest skyscrapers, this restaurant boasts stunning panoramic views of the city. They serve a cuisine inspired in the different regions of Italy created by chef Fabrizio Ferrari.
At a glance, the Nu Italian restaurant has a very traditional Italian menu, featuring dishes like asparagus risotto or simple filetto di manzo alla griglia. However, as you uncover the creativity of the use of fresh fish throughout the menu, it becomes clear that this is something special.
Swiss-born chef, Pietro Leeman, runs this entirely vegetarian restaurant with an Asian twist. This is one of very few totally vegetarian restaurants to receive a Michelin star, and it offers extremely creative dishes made with fresh, local produce, some even grown at the restaurant's garden.
Run by the critically-acclaimed chef Claudio Sadler, this restaurant has a string of cute overlapping little dining rooms providing an intimate feel. It offers a distinguished dining experience and an ever-changing menu of the day.
Located inside the Hotel de la Ville, right in front of Villa Reale, this restaurant serves local specialities in an elegant setting.
This gourmet restaurant is located on the top floor of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, with stunning views of the Duomo. Here, chef Felice Lo Basso serves sophisticated cuisine, anchored in Italian tradition.
Chef Eugenio Boer serves traditional Italian cuisine with modern touches and international flavours, especially northern European and from the Netherlands.
This restaurant, run by chef Carlo Cracco, was awarded two Michelin stars following its opening in 2001. Cracco examines and reinvents traditional Milanese dishes in a contemporary way, and whilst some of his ingredient combinations may seem a little unusual, take the risk, as they are often his finest dishes.
Created in 2007 by chef Viviana Varese and sommelier Sandra Ciciriello, this restaurant serves fish and meat prepared with spades of creativity but starting from Mediterranean tradition.
Michelin-starred chef Enrico Bartolini's restaurant in Bergamo serves his contemporary-classic cuisine philosophy: traditional dishes re-imagined through the eyes of an innovator, resident chef Cristopher Carraro.