Best Restaurants in Milan

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

Antonio Guida's two-star kitchen inside Mandarin Oriental

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

Seventh-floor Armani Hotel dining room, controlled and contemporary

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

Italy's first Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant

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

Rigorous classical Japanese behind a vertical garden in Brera

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

Lebanese meze in a warm Brera-edge room

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

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

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

Cesare Battisti's modern-classic Milanese osteria

Family trattoria where Milanese tradition meets a starred touch

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

Refined all-day bistrot on patrician Via Vincenzo Monti

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

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

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

Fourth-generation Milanese trattoria, since 1921

Three generations of fierce Calabrian cooking off Porta Romana

Reinvented Sicilian cooking with a deep natural-wine list

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

Sardinian seafood institution since 1976

Noma-trained fermentation kitchen with a natural-wine list

Intimate Provençal-tinged osteria on the Naviglio Grande

Milanese classics on a site serving food since 1885

Nine-table Brera institution, cash-only, no reservations

Refined classic seafood in the heart of Brera

Milan's oldest restaurant, founded in 1696

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

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

Lombard cooking in a 15th-century Borromeo courtyard

Milan's cult gourmet panino counter since 1964

An 1880 Milanese trattoria and Historic Place of Italy

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

Luca Catalfamo's izakaya-style ramen counter in Isola

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nearly 30 years of true Eritrean cooking on Via Melzo

Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking with a traditional coffee ceremony

Habesha cooking and shared plates on Via Lazzaro Palazzi

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