Milan Top Restaurants

Milan, the only Italian city where you can enjoy the cuisines from all over the world, local, regional and international restaurants, where it's possible to choice between fresh fish from Sicily, Campania, Apulia and Sardinia kitchen, meats and steaks from Tuscany and Argentine, Japanese sushi and sashimi, the typical yellow risotto Milanese from Lombard tradition. The choice is really huge and select the right place to eat is not always easy, especially because not often prices and quality are in the right proportion, so is crucial the right place to avoid expensive bill eating a little and bad.
Within this article I will try to demonstrate how with a bill that will never exceed 40€ with two courses including a quality wine bottle it's possible to eat good food in beautiful places, cared, well attended and trendy. I have personally tested all the places several times and in different periods of the year. For each location I will try to recommend a wine for your dinner with the best value for money by delivering a comprehensive judge of the cellar proposal.

Porta Venezia > Delicatessen, Calaluna, Il Giardino dei Segreti
Porta Romana > Trattoria del Pescatore, L'Isola del Tesoro
XXV Aprile e Corso Garibaldi > Eataly, Temakinho, Malastrana, La Libera

Venice Door Area

Delicatessen South Tyrol in Tunisia str, 14 (02.29529555) in Venice/Station Area actually is the trendiest restaurant in Milan, fine, refined, elegant and with an aperitif with tasting wine from 19:00 to 21:00, a large upper room overlooking the wood, impressive wine cellar downstairs also with retail with all the regional excellence and sublime dishes such as dumplings, venison with currant jam, salted meat carpaccio, pumpkin soup, cream of fennel and leek, tris Tyrolean beef goulash with polenta, veal cutlet and an account that does not exceed 45 Euros for a full meal wine including.

In Venice door Area, always well attended, close to the beautiful Sheraton Diana Hotel where maybe you can pass for a first drink in the beautiful gardens, Marcello's Calaluna (02.29401982) in Piave st, 38 right next Esselunga super market where speciality is cooked and raw fresh fish and discrete wine from Sardinia region like Vermentino is Argiolas.

In Sirtori street 26, behind Sheraton Diana Grand Hotel, Rosy e Gabriele, one large room, a lobster tank at the entrance, few and bad wines, excellent food like swordfish steaks and salmon fylets, nice service guaranteed by friendly and vintage waiters.

Another smart meat restaurant reference in Sottocorno street n.17 il Giardino dei Segreti (02.76021803) with grill at view, large veranda with real tree trunks embedded to be preferred because always well attended, wide selection of red wines of national labels.

For aperitif, very close, in Sottocorno 11, Wine Bar Ross & Bianc, cozy, intimate, intriguing lighting, wide selection of high quality less known wine labels (glass at 5 €) and some food to match wine tasting like a delicious Tomino with honey and almond flakes or the mushrooms or cheese cake accompanied by eggplant or classic dishes of meats and cheese.

Roman Door Area

Another institution in Milan, in Porta Romana Area in Vannucci street n.5, trattoria del Pescatore (02.58320452) where reservation is required at least one week before, directed by Giuliano Ardu, spacialities are catalan lobster served with tomato pieces and onions, spaghetti with clams and mullet, turbot with potatoes and at the end grana and two bottles of myrtle and lemon liquor always served in all Sardinian restaurants. The wine here is not highly regarded, the choice is limited, a typical sardinian wine, Vermentino di Gallura, will be served and don't care if it will get hot suddenly because here the wine bucket doesn't exist, otherwise everything is perfect as the bill contained. (around 50€)

Corso Garibaldi Area

Real Milan nightlife showcase, located in the heart of Corso Garibaldi at number 50, trattoria Malastrana Rossa da Pino trendy groups meeting point, always full at all hours of day and night, offering an extensive menu that ranges from the classic and traditional Wiener Schnitzel to screws holding tuna, pizza, beef fillet. The bill not exceed 35€

Few steps forward, in Largo la Foppa 5, always well attended every day of the week, other famous fashion location for dinner, Osteria La Vecchia Lira (02.6599136) rustic with rough walls with stone, mixed menu approaching Tuscany, Lombardy and Piedmont cooking therefore with considerable meat dishes as angus fillet and beef cut, pappardelle with porcini mushrooms, ragout Paccheri redfish, Nebbiolo risotto tasting great wines both red (Mastroberardino Radici Taurasi, Tignanello Antinori, Cabreo Il Borgo Tenute Folonari) and white (Cabreo La Pietra Tenute Folonari, Cervaro della Sala Antinori, Vintage Tunina e Were Dreams by Jerman). Depending on the wine, the bill is around 50€.

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