Lokale 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

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

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

The 1947 cocktail temple where the Negroni Sbagliato was born

Acquabella's natural-wine neighbourhood bar with Mediterranean plates

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

Luca Catalfamo's izakaya-style ramen counter in Isola

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

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

Refined all-day bistrot on patrician Via Vincenzo Monti

Family gelateria since 1930, classic craft and Milanese flavours

Serious mixology off the botanical garden in Brera

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

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

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking with a traditional coffee ceremony

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

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

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

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

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

Brera's artists' bar since 1911

Lebanese meze in a warm Brera-edge room

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

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

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

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

Nearly 30 years of true Eritrean cooking on Via Melzo