Venues similar to Panini De Santis

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

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

Three generations of fierce Calabrian cooking off Porta Romana

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

The Marchesi-legacy restaurant beside La Scala

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

Artisan bakery and pasticceria, the Porta Venezia breakfast standard

Family gelateria since 1930, classic craft and Milanese flavours

Refined cooking by Roman ruins, with a secret garden

Lombard cooking in a 15th-century Borromeo courtyard

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