Venues similar to Backdoor 43

Vintage-apothecary cocktail room on the Naviglio Grande

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

The bar that brought fresh-ingredient cocktails to Milan in 2002

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

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

Intimate Provençal-tinged osteria on the Naviglio Grande

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

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

The home of the Milanese aperitivo, since 1915

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

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

Acquabella's natural-wine neighbourhood bar with Mediterranean plates

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

Serious mixology off the botanical garden in Brera

Brera's artists' bar since 1911

An 1896 enoteca on Via Paolo Sarpi opening hundreds of labels by the glass

Sommelier Jacopo Ercolani's natural-wine bar in the heart of Isola

The 1947 cocktail temple where the Negroni Sbagliato was born

Diego Rossi's wine-led osteria of cicchetti and ~200 natural labels

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