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

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

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

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Neoclassical design boutique a block off Montenapoleone

Family trattoria where Milanese tradition meets a starred touch

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

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

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

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