THE most terrible restaurant I've ever experienced in my lifetime. And this is from someone who…read moreeats out 10 meals per week. The service was awful. 1 hour 15 minutes to get salad and pasta to the table. And the restaurant was not even busy. Don't waste your time visiting this place.

I stopped by there for a casual business lunch on a Friday…read more The place was half full, and the atmosphere was nice. The owner greeted us and helped us through the menu. Food was so good! The Cotoletta was perfect, tasty and juicy, and the platter of cheeses and cold cuts was great quality. The best part was the Onion Confiture, that the owner made the day before. Absolutely yummy, so good I had to ask to get me a little more to bring home. This place is an absolute gem.

Loved this place! Came for breakfast with a large party. The staff was very friendly and helpful…read more We felt welcomed from the time we walked in. Food came out pretty fast and it was delicious!

#79-2016: What a…read morePITY!!!! Though it is half across town, this could have easily become my Sunday brunch whenever (and it is, alas, more and more often the case) I feel homesick with cravings for a splurging American style breakfast... ok... NOT quite AMERICAN, but as American as I can expect it to be on Milan soil (forget sausage, hashbrowns, waffles, chorizo...) A group of yelpers decided to gather for brunch around 10:30ish (could it have been the number 13 that jinxed the whole experience?) To discuss our latest read for the book club. If you have ever gone out to eat with a bunch of Italians you'll know we take: 1) forever to choose our meal 2) we like to mix things up to adjust it to our taste. Most of the bunch got the American Traditional Breakfast (which included: eggs, bacon on 2 slices of toast, 2 salty pancakes with tomatoes). Well, all except me decided they wanted their pancakes sweet (simply with syrup on top) instead of the salty option. Then a few other requests (NONE OF which had variations from what was written on the menu). Almost EVERYONE then opted for freshly squeezed oranges. Most asked for American coffee (some asked for a cappuccino). Few opted for yogurt... 10 minutes (which we filled with talks about the book) passed before the first few beverages arrived...PLENTY drinks missing. .. There goes the 1st star. (By the way... it took 40 minutes to have EACH requested drink brought over... many other tables were served ahead of us despite coming after us). Another 15 minutes and the first plates arrive... confusion started hitting the waiters and we started getting on the aggravated side... 2nd star gone... I asked REPEATEDLY if the plate (which was EXACTLY like everyone else... NOT including the tomatoes) I had in front of me was indeed the right one... A good 10 more minutes passed... panic engulfing the staff... Food started getting cold... I didn't DARE starting to eat for fear it were the wrong plate... Simple orders such as a brioches with capuccino took little over 1 hour to arrive. Others got the yogurt before their scrambled eggs... it was complete chaos!!! Ah... in all this.. NO tomatoes were delivered... I was simply brought some jamòn Serrano (so typically American, don't you say?). At one point the chef came out asking if everything was OK..... that is when we all at a unison said "NO" We still lacked ingredients here and there (as simple as a bit of butter or jam for those who wanted and asked for it). My sunnyside up was cooked Italian style (the white still a bit gewey on top) which was sort of ok for me but not for. Fellow Eater or 2... The scrambled eggs were way to orangey to even have ANY white in them and they were huge chunks). Bacon? Not as crispy as I am used to but perfectly salty. The slices of bread were pretty dry and without butter they were average. The pancakes were sort of ok but the syrup they brought over was NOT enough for everyone... 3rd star gone I am saving this place from a complete disastrous 1-star-review because I am feeling magnanimous on Valentine's Day... Though I should bring it down one more star when the manager came and instead of apologizing for the agony we had been experiencing he simply said "you didn't order from the right person"... too bad he showed up almost by the time it was all over... AND, by 12 he asked us to get up and leave because they needed to clean for lunch... SERIOUSLY PEOPLE!!! You need to get your act together or no ammount of "we're cool, you just got us all confused" is gonna save you from losing a whole lot of clientele!!! PS: me no likey... me no coming back. .... me no gonna suggest the place to ANYONE I know ...

The best of a night at several bars on the Navigli. Read my profile and my reviews, you'll find…read morethat I am a pretty experienced booze hound. Pinch is a total replica of American hipster craft cocktail bars, in Milan. The bartenders wear suspenders and do tricks with shakers. I'm waiting for an ironic mustache, preferably like the Moretti guy has. The drinks are exceptional. When I was there, they had one made of green tomatoes and mountain pine liqueur that was a taste party in my mouth. The aperitivo snacks are also really excellent, a small tray of various interesting crunchy things. No potato chips -- we're talking samosas in wonton wrappers with sweet chili sauce, Indian curry rice, a ham-arugula roll, and baba ghanoush. My second drink didn't quite match the first, but it was close. Also, the only bar in Milan that gave me *zero* grief about wanting a simple glass of tap water. In fact, they just give you one. Mega bonus points for that. I'm sick of paying for "aqua panna Toscana" that I neither need nor want. Been drinking Milan tap water in my hotel room for four days now. It's fine. Pour it on. Food offerings from the regular menu are a little hit or miss, but on the other hand, I had kind of stuffed myself with aperitivo. Had I been hungry, might've been a different story.

Another perfect cocktails bar in Navigli! And yet I thought this Milanese neighborhood was only…read morefilled with bars with bad & cheap drinks, loud music and greasy aperitivo food (well, there are plenty of bars like that but thankfully not all of them). Pinch is a new bar right in Ripa di Porta Ticinese, not in the pedestrian part of the Naviglio, which means they don't have outside seating - except for the tables at the windows. It has a retro vibe, as if you entered a 1920s bar, dim lights, soft 1920's music; elegant but not ostentatious atmosphere. The cocktails list has about 15 signature cocktails, all with an explanation of the alcoholic level (medium or high), taste (fresh, spicy, bitter, etc.) and of course the ingredients, classic cocktails with a twist, made extremely well, with good ingredients. They also have a food menu but I didn't check it out since we were there for the aperitivo - which then turned into after-dinner drinks. I had the "South of the Border" with tequila, chartreuse vert, lime juice, sugar syrup and fresh mint, it was fresh and delicious, then I had another one and another one... just to be sure they were made perfectly ;) For the aperitivo, our cocktails were 8 euro each and the waiter (who looked like Robert Pattinson) brough a small tray with some snacks: rice and salad in small glasses, chips, mini-sandwiches and a couple of vol-au-vents - not enough to fill our stomachs completely but also not the average greasy aperitivo food. Nice staff, a full bar with quality bottles and clean bathrooms complete the experience. Too bad it's far from my house, but worth the subway trip back!

I guess it was inevitable that a friend of Dorothy would land here. I stopped in for a late lunch…read morebecause all the other local restaurants were closed for the afternoon. I sat outside on the terrace and had a very good seafood salad and a plate of spaghetti in a mildly-hot butter sauce. The salad was full of frutti di mare, and the spaghetti was cooked perfectly al dente. Service was fast and friendly, and the prices were very reasonable; E13,80 all told, including bread and water. It seems to be a bit of a hangout in the local neighborhood, which is full of arty, academic types, and the crowd was well mannered, even if, from time to time, their smoke got in my eyes.

We were staying in a hotel near the Villa San Giovanni subway stop, and we were hoping to find a…read moregreat place for dinner nearby. We walked by Vineria San Giovanni, and we are so glad we did! The wine was great. The food was fantastic. The service was superb. And the price was very reasonable. Both my spouse and I would return here frequently if we were lucky enough to have this restaurant nearby!

Cute space. Rather forgettable pennette alla vodka…read more We ordered at the counter, looking in the case at the remaining foodstuffs that were available, then took a seat and our grub was brought out to us. I learned from Café Martesana that if there is more than one person at a table who orders a coffee after a meal, the assumption is that -everyone- at that table desires one. This happened at least two or three times in the course of a week in Milan. Fortunately, it's straightforward enough to send excess away, as long as you speak Italian. This serves as a suitable destination right along the river to snag a quick and affordable lunch. It's simple, reasonably priced, and relatively efficient as far as sit-down places go.