Venues similar to Armani/Silos

David Chipperfield's culture museum in a former Ansaldo factory

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

Seventh-floor Armani Hotel dining room, controlled and contemporary

Milan's great art gallery in the Palazzo di Brera

Italy's largest science museum in a 16th-century monastery

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

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

Acquabella's natural-wine neighbourhood bar with Mediterranean plates

Vintage-apothecary cocktail room on the Naviglio Grande

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

The Pinacoteca di Brera's own bistrot-café

Italy's first Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant

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

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

Milan's 4th-century Romanesque heart, founded by St Ambrose

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

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

Antonio Guida's two-star kitchen inside Mandarin Oriental

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

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