Plekken in Milan

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

Eritrean dining staged like a desert tent on Via Melzo

Refined classic seafood in the heart of Brera

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

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

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

Milan's oldest restaurant, founded in 1696

Seventh-floor Armani Hotel dining room, controlled and contemporary

Giorgio Armani's own fashion museum in a 1950s grain silo

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

The 1947 cocktail temple where the Negroni Sbagliato was born

Brera's artists' bar since 1911

Acquabella's natural-wine neighbourhood bar with Mediterranean plates

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

The Pinacoteca di Brera's own bistrot-café

The home of the Milanese aperitivo, since 1915

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

Luca Catalfamo's izakaya-style ramen counter in Isola

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

Matias Perdomo's playful one-star in an old Milanese palazzo

Carlo Cracco's Michelin-starred flagship in the Galleria

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

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

Lebanese meze in a warm Brera-edge room

Three generations of fierce Calabrian cooking off Porta Romana

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

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

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

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

Italy's first Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant

Seven-seat Edo-style omakase counter by master Masashi Suzuki

Europe's first Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant, founded by Pietro Leemann

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

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

All-female micro-roastery for serious specialty coffee

Vintage-apothecary cocktail room on the Naviglio Grande

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

Enrico Croatti's gastronomic ecosystem: tapas bistro, cocktail bar, vinyl, and a starred room

David Chipperfield's culture museum in a former Ansaldo factory

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

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

Milan's pioneering third-wave specialty coffee bar

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

Milanese classics on a site serving food since 1885

Intimate Provençal-tinged osteria on the Naviglio Grande

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

Milan's cult gourmet panino counter since 1964

Reinvented Sicilian cooking with a deep natural-wine list

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

Milan's great art gallery in the Palazzo di Brera

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

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Since 1984, the founding Eritrean table of Milan's 'Little Asmara'

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

Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking with a traditional coffee ceremony

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

The Marchesi-legacy restaurant beside La Scala

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

Neoclassical design boutique a block off Montenapoleone

Antonio Guida's two-star kitchen inside Mandarin Oriental

Ritu Dalmia and Viviana Varese's well-travelled global kitchen on Via Melzo

Noma-trained fermentation kitchen with a natural-wine list

Rigorous classical Japanese behind a vertical garden in Brera

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

Diego Rossi's head-to-tail trattoria, the cult Milanese table

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

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

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

Nearly 30 years of true Eritrean cooking on Via Melzo