Mekane in Milan

All-day Italian in a former seminary on the Quadrilatero's grand square

Eritrean dining staged like a desert tent on Via Melzo

Refined classic seafood in the heart of Brera

Maida Mercuri's canal-side osteria, a Navigli institution

Naples-born two-star chef, contemporary Italian on the Rovati rooftop

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

Milan's oldest restaurant, founded in 1696

Seventh-floor Armani Hotel dining room, controlled and contemporary

The world's smallest bar - four seats, key and password

The 1947 cocktail temple where the Negroni Sbagliato was born

Brera's artists' bar since 1911

Acquabella's natural-wine neighbourhood bar with Mediterranean plates

The home of the Milanese aperitivo, since 1915

Italy's first urban winery, with a Porta Romana wine bar

An 1896 enoteca on Via Paolo Sarpi opening hundreds of labels by the glass

Luca Catalfamo's izakaya-style ramen counter in Isola

Chef Vanessa Viscardi's hidden 18th-century patrician dining room

Matias Perdomo's playful one-star in an old Milanese palazzo

Carlo Cracco's Michelin-starred flagship in the Galleria

Sommelier Jacopo Ercolani's natural-wine bar in the heart of Isola

Isola's 1866 trattoria with a leafy courtyard and an 800-label cellar

Lebanese meze in a warm Brera-edge room

Three generations of fierce Calabrian cooking off Porta Romana

Andrea Berton's cocktail-and-pizza idea, done seriously in Brera

Liberty-style wine house with a cheese bar, since 1952

Italy's most-decorated chef on the Mudec's top floor

Refined all-day bistrot on patrician Via Vincenzo Monti

A Parisian bistrot inside a working Brera florist

Family gelateria since 1930, classic craft and Milanese flavours

Lombard cooking in a 15th-century Borromeo courtyard

Serious mixology off the botanical garden in Brera

Three-star chef's clean contemporary Italian at the Bulgari Hotel

Italy's first Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant

Seven-seat Edo-style omakase counter by master Masashi Suzuki

Europe's first Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant, founded by Pietro Leemann

Milan's cult seafood room, glamour without compromise on the fish

Nine-table Brera institution, cash-only, no reservations

Giorgio Caruso's soft, slow-risen Neapolitan-style pizza

Vintage-apothecary cocktail room on the Naviglio Grande

A design-led Colombian kitchen in a converted Porta Venezia warehouse

Enrico Croatti's gastronomic ecosystem: tapas bistro, cocktail bar, vinyl, and a starred room

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

Diego Rossi's wine-led osteria of cicchetti and ~200 natural labels

Milanese classics on a site serving food since 1885

Intimate Provençal-tinged osteria on the Naviglio Grande

Milan's first haute Peruvian-Nikkei kitchen, ceviche and tiradito

Milan's cult gourmet panino counter since 1964

Reinvented Sicilian cooking with a deep natural-wine list

Milan's 1817 caffè-pasticceria, on Montenapoleone since 1950

Southern-Italian pastry and proper espresso between Repubblica and Porta Venezia

The original 1824 pasticceria, Belle Époque intact

A former factory turned one of Europe's great free contemporary-art spaces

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Since 1984, the founding Eritrean table of Milan's 'Little Asmara'

Andrea Berton's Michelin-starred minimalism among the Porta Nuova towers

Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking with a traditional coffee ceremony

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

The Marchesi-legacy restaurant beside La Scala

The bar that brought fresh-ingredient cocktails to Milan in 2002

Neoclassical design boutique a block off Montenapoleone

Antonio Guida's two-star kitchen inside Mandarin Oriental

Ritu Dalmia and Viviana Varese's well-travelled global kitchen on Via Melzo

Noma-trained fermentation kitchen with a natural-wine list

Italy's smallest gin micro-distillery with a craft cocktail bar and kitchen

Family trattoria where Milanese tradition meets a starred touch

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

Cinque Vie's risotto-alla-milanese benchmark since 1933

Diego Rossi's head-to-tail trattoria, the cult Milanese table

The MAG family's micro-distillery cocktail bar steps from Piazza Gae Aulenti

Salon-style cocktail and natural-wine bistrot on the Navigli

Farm-to-table in a restored 17th-century cascina

Two-Michelin-star tasting at a counter above Piazza Duomo

Natural-wine pioneer with a small, sharp kitchen on the canal

Nearly 30 years of true Eritrean cooking on Via Melzo