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

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

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

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

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

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

Serious mixology off the botanical garden in Brera

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

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

Giorgio Caruso's soft, slow-risen Neapolitan-style pizza

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

Historic Brera enoteca in a former Augustinian refectory

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

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

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

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

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

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