Στέκια in Milan

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

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

Seventh-floor Armani Hotel dining room, controlled and contemporary

The 1947 cocktail temple where the Negroni Sbagliato was born

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

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

Carlo Cracco's Michelin-starred flagship in the Galleria

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

Three generations of fierce Calabrian cooking off Porta Romana

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

Refined all-day bistrot on patrician Via Vincenzo Monti

A Parisian bistrot inside a working Brera florist

Rem Koolhaas-designed contemporary-art campus (skip Bar Luce)

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

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

All-female micro-roastery for serious specialty coffee

Vintage-apothecary cocktail room on the Naviglio Grande

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

Milan's pioneering third-wave specialty coffee bar

Milan's cult gourmet panino counter since 1964

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

Artisan bakery and pasticceria, the Porta Venezia breakfast standard

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

The Marchesi-legacy restaurant beside La Scala

Neoclassical design boutique a block off Montenapoleone

Rigorous classical Japanese behind a vertical garden in Brera

Family trattoria where Milanese tradition meets a starred touch

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

Fourth-generation Milanese trattoria, since 1921

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

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

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

Milan's oldest restaurant, founded in 1696

Brera's artists' bar since 1911

Noma alumni's Scandi-Italian specialty coffee and pastry under the Gae Aulenti towers

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

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

Nearly 30 years of true Eritrean cooking on Via Melzo