Intro: After having dinner in the Navigli district, we were looking for some drinks. Mag Cafe was…read morein the area, we're talking a two-minute walk, so our decision was made. We walked over and we were seated outside on the patio overlooking the canal. Service (4/5): Service in Europe can be a bit lackluster. This isn't the case here. Service was friendly and efficient for the most part. We were given the option of sitting outside or inside. Our waiter was friendly. It took him a while to give us our check when we were closing out but that was the only blip in the experience. Ambiance (4/5): Everything we were looking for. The Navigli district is a great area. It's lively. It's picturesque (with the canal in the background). Really the only annoying part of the district is that there are people who will stop by your table trying to sell you roses and various other things. The interior, while we didn't sit inside, was nice and had a solid playlist going. Food (N/A): We had dinner previously so cocktails only. With that being said, they brought us some snacks with our cocktail (in typical Italian fashion) which is always a nice touch. Drinks (5/5): Mag Cafe has a long and creative list of craft cocktails. The cocktails are inspired by different historical events so you get a nice overview on the menu of the event along with the cocktail. After perusing the menu, I went with a tiki-style cocktail. I love tiki-style drinks so it was a no-brainer for me. The cocktail was exactly what I wanted. Flavorful with an interesting fusion of flavors. Overall: Mag Cafe is up there with the top cocktail bars I've visited over the course of my life (and trust me, I've been to a lot of them). If you need further motivation, the bar appeared on Stanley Tucci's TV show. It was so cool to experience it firsthand after seeing it on the show!

Great service with excellent coffees and craft cocktails. Mostly smart locals with only a few…read moretourists. Fair prices for the excellent quality. Awesome service to boot.

Very cute small Cafe! We tried the Cappuccino with "THE TRIAL signature blend" and loved it. So we…read moretake one for us at home and hope it will be so good as in Milan :)

Roasts their own coffee. Not in house as far as I can tell, but that still means an excellent…read morelittle espresso. One of the best I had this trip. Also offers a case full of three-bite pastries, presumably to be sold by the kg, but they'll happily give you one to keep your coffee from getting lonely. Simple, small, and tasty. Also has a larger pizza restaurant next door. Did not try and cannot comment.

I heard so many good things about this pasticceria that i had to try it. In particular I was…read moreinterested in trying the Torta Enrico, their signature torta and the Zurich Torte, which definitely caught my eye on the website. They were both delicious, but I have to say that they did not meet my expectations. Maybe I had to high of an expectation you might say and you might be right. Anyway, the torta Enrico is a sweet pastry crust (pasta frolla) filled with dark chocolate and pears. The crust is really good, but overall it didn't deliver the amazing experience i was expecting. It was just really good. Same thing for the Zurich Torte, a sweet pastry crust filled with baked pastry cream and apples, very very good, but not sublime as i was hoping. Anyway, this is a classic pasticceria in Milan that delivers very high quality desserts and pasticcini, you can't go wrong with it.

Items Ordered: Espresso with Fresh Cream…read moreAlmond Cookie Rum and Rice Tartlet Pistachio Marzipan Tartlet Apricot Jam Cookie Coconut Chocolate Cookies Ricotta Cake Cream Croissant Jam Croissant Torta Enrico - Chocolate Pear Cake Mascarpone Cherry Tartlet Chocolate Ganache Almond Marzipan Tartlet Cinnamon Cream Tartlet Located in Southwest Milan and thus afforded the ability to curtail prices while offering plenty of space to sit, Pasticceria Castelnuovo was perhaps the perfect way to start off a day following dinner and the drive from Dal Pescatore, the staff far more friendly than other Italian Bakeries as they tried their best to make do with limited English before also offering up fresh Cream for the Coffee plus a plate of complimentary tastes. Founded in 1945 and having maintained a homey interior where the full pastry kitchen can be seen through glass behind the counter-top, Pasticceria Castelnuovo opens every day except Monday at 08h00 with a focus on Italian classics given a Milanese focus, several items not previously seen in Venice or Parma soon to become regular findings including a Brownie-dense cake entitled Torta Enrico that marries Pears to Chocolate with almost no additional sugar making for a bold, bittersweet taste. Offering several styles of Petit Fours, Tartlets and Cookies, those with Marzipan and Nuts a beautiful balance of textures that saw sweetness tempered by natural savory notes, both the Cream and Jam Croissants were still toasty warm with well-separated layers of lamination beneath their golden exterior, a tiny Layer Cake of Rice infused with Rum also quite pleasant.