Mekane in Milan

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

Refined classic seafood in the heart of Brera

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

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

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

The home of the Milanese aperitivo, since 1915

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

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

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

A Parisian bistrot inside a working Brera florist

Lombard cooking in a 15th-century Borromeo courtyard

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

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

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

Intimate Provençal-tinged osteria on the Naviglio Grande

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

Reinvented Sicilian cooking with a deep natural-wine list

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

The original 1824 pasticceria, Belle Époque intact

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

Neoclassical design boutique a block off Montenapoleone

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

Fourth-generation Milanese trattoria, since 1921

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

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

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