A tip of the cappello to Yelp friend Francesco for recommending Zio Pesce. It is a lovely upscale…read moreyet casual restaurant. Zio Pesce means "uncle fish" and the decor is hip with fishing related objects on the walls, white table clothes and at least one waiter who translated the menu for us, answered all questions and ensured that not just the meal, but the evening was terrific. We started with a fabulous fish ceviche. Very fresh. Lovely flavor. Next we shared an order of bauletti. Bauletti means little trunks (think suitcases, not swimming). They are little squares filled, in this case, with cod. The bauletti are then cooked in a tomato sauce and bechamel sauce like you'd bake lasagna. It was great. The secondo was crispy octopus (polpo croccante). The octopus wasn't crispy but was grilled and coated with toasted bread crumbs and served on potatoes and greens. What great combination. All of the this was accompanied by cold, crisp lovely vermentino from Sardinia. For dessert we had super fresh strawberries with a lovely sauce I can no longer recall except to say that my mouth is watering thinking about it. This was a great meal and a great evening in a lovely ambience. Zio Pesce is the kind of restaurant you'd drive across town for in Washington or Atlanta or Toronto -- if you could get a reservation . Which brings me to the final point: you need to make reservation if you want to eat at Zio Pesce. The gentleman who answered the phone switched to English as soon as he heard my bad Italian.

Zio Pesce is a great choice to try fresh seafood in Milan…read more The most important thing to know about this place is that you NEED a reservation, otherwise the chances are that you can't get a table even during the week. I usually try the yellowfin tuna here, it's super delicious. The fish is seared which means it's heated only at the surface. So, if you don't like raw fish, this is not for you. The fish I comes with potatoes and some green leaves, so quite filling. Zio Pesce has become one of my favorite restaurants in Milan because of the quality of food as well as the dining experience itself. The staff are very kind and attentive, and do what they can to keep you satisfied. Once, they gave us a free bottle of wine just because we had to wait for about 15 minutes (with a reservation). This was far from my expectation considering what I see in some places in Italy. Yes, they care about customers!

Unbelievable delicious seafood!…read more We started with Tuna carpaccio. So delicious and tender!! Had the grilled fish of the day which included sea bass salmon sea bream swordfish with rocket salad. Yum yum. Also shared the mushroom papparedelle pasta . And don't forget the tiramisu. Good grief. All around a beautiful meal!!

Time was on our/their side. After a couple of bad experiences, after more than a year since…read morevisiting this place, a 50% rebate on the total.bill convinced us to timidly return, in the hope that the same waiters who mistreated us and whom we mistreated back, would not spit in our plates or fart on them. Thankfully the whole staff had changed and our two waiters were true comedians. They made us laugh and served us good fish. Our sea bass was perrrrrfect, moist and flavorful. Our desserts were scrumptious. All's well that ends well. Peace out.

Great dining experience and great food. The service is a good balance of prim and friendly, and the…read moreatmosphere of the restaurant is "upscale" without being stuffy. For starter, we shared the snow crab, which was light and delicate. For main, I got the tortelli cacio e pepe with raw red shrimp, which was incredible -- the cheese was strong and liquidy, giving the tortelli the feeling of a rich soup dumpling, and the red shrimp had amazing flavor. My husband got the gnocchetti with shrimp, calamari, and langoustine. The gnocchetti was pillowy, the seafood had good bite, and the sauce was very tasty and rich in flavor. For dessert, we shared a sachertorte, which wasn't too sweet and had a nice subtle fruity flavor to balance out the chocolate.

Arrived from the US. Was extremely excited to try this restaurant with my family for Christmas…read more Disappointed with my entree. Food was cold and over priced.

The food here was amazing. We had already been in Milan for a day prior to coming here and when I…read moretell you that the food we had the first day was lackluster at best, I hope that seriously underscores how much was riding on our lunch experience at a'Mare. Thankfully, a'Mare did not disappoint. I love a good seafood pasta and they delivered!! They had this special - seafood carbonara - which was truly chef's kiss. The seafood was all cubed up into small pieces and the sauce was exquisite. We also ordered a pasta with mussels and that didn't disappoint either. The round of Aperol spritzes was also amazing but they offer a lot of wine as well (which probably would've paired equally well with the pasta, but my heart was set on Aperol spritzes for my Italy vacation). Service was good - bathrooms were clean but tiny and could be better in my opinion. You also have to pay upstairs at the register rather than at your table. Definitely recommend checking this place out if you're close by and visiting the Duomo. It's approximately a 5 min walk away and worth it!

A'Mare is an Italian sea food restaurant located about 1/2 a mile from the Duomo in Milan. They…read moreserve incredibly fresh sea food in an up scale environment. Antipasta polpo (18€ = $20 USD) - The octopus was perfectly grilled and had a firm texture. It was a great appetizer to start the meal. Taglioni pistachio gambino 16€ = $17.50 USD) - This spaghetti type pasta was prepared al dente and served with a creamy pistachio sauce that paired well with fresh shrimp. Grigliata mista (26€ = $28.50 USD) - I enjoyed the variety of freshly grilled fish this dish had to offer which included salmon, shrimp, and white fish. Fritto calamari gambino verde (22€ = $24 USD) - This consisted of lightly fried calamari, shrimp, and julienned squash and zucchini. The vegetables were so addicting and I appreciated that everything was prepared in a light batter. Overall, I really enjoyed the sea food here and the variety of offerings. I can see why this is a popular sea food spot!

Nice place! Good food, little restaurant in Navigli Milano, nice place, Enjoy the food ! Roberta…read moreand sandro Firenze Italy

This is an intimate, small restaurant right along the canal. The menu was one page and only in…read moreItalian. Exactly what we were looking for. The chef came out to explain the whole menu to us in English. We just told him to surprise us. Every dish he brought us was delicious. The spicy ceviche was our favorite. The seafood was absolutely fresh and we were able to watch him make everything in the small kitchen set up right next to our table. We could tell the chef took pride in the restaurant. He greeted all of the guests, took orders, bussed tables, and served the food with descriptions. We will definitely be back whenever we are in Milán. Only negative was that the service was a bit slow. It was just the chef and another woman. She was very sweet holding a couple's baby while they enjoyed their meal, but our glasses of water were empty and we never were able to get another bottle of water. We also met two lovely ladies dining there. I meant to exchange information to keep in touch but was focused on our next stop for dessert! Ladies, if you are reading this, message me on Yelp :) I'd love to meet you on your next trip.

I wish I could give this ZERO stars based on the hospitality at the door. This was the WORST Nobu…read moreI've ever been to. We came around 9pm just to get a drink. We had spent the day in Milan and we were dressed casual. The "doorman" REFUSED to let us in. I could CLEARLY tell this was because of what we were wearing. They had about 10 tables outside on the patio. I explained to the doorman that we visit Nobu's all around the world and this is our 20TH Nobu location. He still refused to even let me step inside to take a picture. He waived a waiter over, I explained that this is the 20TH Nobu we are trying to visit, and somehow, magically, they had a table right away!! IMAGINE THAT!! I have NEVER, EVER, EVER, experienced this type of HORRIBLE service at any location around the world. I was appalled at the lack of service this Nobu showed. Extremely embarrassing for the brand. I will NEVER recommend this location to ANYONE.

WORST NOBU IN THE ENTIRE WORLD and I've been to most of them! Nobu Matsuhisa would be so…read moredisappointed! This location is not up to level of service we expect from NOBU. We did not make a reservation because we weren't sure what time we could get there after a full day in Milan. So we were just planning on getting drinks & appetizers at the bar. Even though the bar was EMPTY, the "doorman" would not let us inside because of how we looked. You MUST be young & beautiful to enter this establishment. Luckily, a waiter overheard us saying we go to all of the Nobus around the world and found us a table outside. At this point, we didn't want to give them any of our money (which would have been a lot) so we just got drinks but no food. Our waiter was great but the doorman needs to be fired!

This was a lovely place. We had a large group (11 of us) we squeezed in upstairs in a private area…read more It is meant for 10 max but 1 extra person decided to crash our party! The more the merrier we say. Food was pretty good however there was a consensus that the beef carpaccio lacked flavor. I was also surprised to order the octopus but barely found any octopus in the dish, it was more of a shrimp dish which was not described in the menu at all. This is why I took 1 star off. All in all - we had a good time, the staff was friendly and patient with our large group.

I called a number of restaurants to reserve a table. None answered. We were out for a walk and…read moredecided to give Al Mercante a try even though its focus on tourists made us a bit wary. But it was a few blocks from our AirBNB, it looked lovely, and we were hungry. To our surprise there was an available table. You can study restaurant reviews all you want, but sometimes you just have the good fortune to wander into a wonderful restaurant. And that was exactly our experiences at Al Mercante. We ate on the beautiful terrace which faces the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana art museum. The small piazza where Al Mercante is located was very quiet at night. The interior of Al Mercante is quite elegant. While the majority of the clientele were foreigners, there was small wedding party a couple of tables over. We had the very good fortune to be waited on by Angelo, a professional waiter who loves his job (23 years at Al Mercante!) and who ensured that we had a fine dining experience. Angelo speaks beautiful Spanish and we were able to have a more complete discussion than usual about the menu. I've managed to forget the details of the wonderful food we ate so I hope I. don't commit any serious omissions as I reconstruct our meal. We had an appetizer which I cannot recall. I think it was some sort of raw fish (crudo sounds better) with just a hint of citrus almost like an Italian version of ceviche. Our primo (shared) was wonderful: porcini mushrooms on roasted potatoes. What great taste from two simple ingredients. The secondo (also shared) was salmon coated in sliced almonds and a wonderful lemony sauce. Quite simply it was perfect. We had a terrific white wine that might have been a vermentino. Angelo didn't have biscotti with vino santo so he suggested sbrisolona -- another kind of dessert biscuit. -- that seemed to be homemade -- and a digestivo. In between all of this were wonderful amuse bouche. Here's what I'd like you to know: this was a wonderful, elegant meal served by a very professional waiter in beautiful surroundings. Al Mercante provided a delightful meal on our last evening in Milan.

Pizza is super tasty & cheesy here. And the carafe of wine…read moreis literally 3/4 of a full bottle. Saw a photo of Kobe Bryant and his wife on the wall next to where I was sitting. I enjoyed. Surprisingly, I wasn't full after my meal here. I was satisfied. This restaurant was recommended to me by the staff at the hotel I stayed at. Much enjoyed.

One of my favorite Milan eateries. Traditional Italian fare with delicious pasta and risotto dishes…read morewith exquisite appetizers and a wonderful dessert case. Friendly service and great for families too.