Restaurant 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

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

Seventh-floor Armani Hotel dining room, controlled and contemporary

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

Carlo Cracco's Michelin-starred flagship in the Galleria

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

Three generations of fierce Calabrian cooking off Porta Romana

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

Refined all-day bistrot on patrician Via Vincenzo Monti

Lombard cooking in a 15th-century Borromeo courtyard

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

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

Milan's cult gourmet panino counter since 1964

Reinvented Sicilian cooking with a deep natural-wine list

Southern-Italian pastry and proper espresso between Repubblica and Porta Venezia

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking with a traditional coffee ceremony

The Marchesi-legacy restaurant beside La Scala

Rigorous classical Japanese behind a vertical garden in Brera

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

Farm-to-table in a restored 17th-century cascina

Two-Michelin-star tasting at a counter above Piazza Duomo

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

Milan's oldest restaurant, founded in 1696

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

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

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

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

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

Nearly 30 years of true Eritrean cooking on Via Melzo