Explore our curated list of places and spaces in Milan to visit, eat, drink, shop and be inspired during Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025, and year round.
Da Giacomo Milano | Courtesy of Giacomo Milano
Trattoria | Via Pasquale Sottocorno 6 Angolo Via Benvenuto Cellini, 20129, Milano, Italia
For over three decades, Da Giacomo Milano has evoked the charm of old Milanese trattorias, offering traditional Italian fare and premium fresh ingredients. Designed by architect Renzo Mongiardino, the atmosphere is underpinned by boiseries, stuccoes, and crafted furnishings. An outdoor seating area overlooks Via Sottocorno for al fresco dining in fair weather.
Bar Basso | Photography courtesy of Bar Basso
Bar Basso
Cocktail Bar | Via Plinio, 39, 20133 Milano, Italia
Bar Basso has been the most revered Milanese drinking spot for decades. Opened in 1947, it currently lists 500 cocktails on its menu. During MDW, the crowds spill into the opposite square and can number in the hundreds.
Favourite Milan Bar? "Bar Basso! A historical place famous for its cocktails, and the Camparino."
– maria porro
Yapa Milan | Photography by Björn Ceder
Yapa
Restaurant & Cocktail Bar | Viale Monte Nero, 34, 20135 Milano, Italia
Yapa is a new Milanese restaurant designed by Berlin studios Lambs and Lions and Annabell Kutucu. Founder Matteo Pancetti’s cuisine is seasonal and designed for sharing, sourced from small farms and specialist producers. The intimate interiors feature a monochrome palette and muted lighting – ‘an antidote to the traditional Milanese scene’.
Gucci Monte Napoleone Flagship | Photography by Daniele Mango
Boutique | Via Monte Napoleone 7, Milano, Italia
The new Gucci flagship on Monte Napoleone, designed by director Sabato De Sarno, epitomises the brand’s modern lens on luxury. Behind a façade of geometric patterns and ornate details, the interiors unfold across several immersive spaces marked by marble floors, brass accents and minimalist furnishings
Gucci Monte Napoleone Flagship | Photography by Daniele Mango
L’Arabesque Milano Cult Store | Photography courtesy of Paolo Carlini
Boutique | Largo Augusto, 10, 20122, Milano, Italia
Designed by IVELA, the new L’Arabesque Cult Store is highly conceptual, featuring all-white, overlapping volumes and circular motifs, highlighted by a ‘continuous change of light scenes’. The store is a visionary backdrop to cutting-edge pieces that blend streetwear with high fashion.
Ristorante Teatro alla Scala il Foyer | Photography courtesy of Teatro alla Scala
Restaurant | Largo Antonio Ghiringhelli, 1, Via Filodrammatici, 2, 20121, Milano, Italia
Located within Milan’s iconic La Scala opera house, Ristorante Teatro alla Scala il Foyer emulates the opulence of the setting. The interiors by Milanese architecture and design practice MVUY studio pay homage to the theatre’s grandeur and cultural significance, hallmarked by the use of rich red upholstery.
Gong Oriental Attitude | Photography by Matteo Imbriani
Restaurant | Corso Concordia, 8, 20129, Milano, Italia
Gong Oriental Attitude, offers a contemporary take on haute Asian cuisine with a menu defined by new-age interpretations of the ‘ancient traditions of Asian gastronomy’ and a rigorous ingredient selection. Designed by architects Nisi Magnoni and Davide Galletta, the restaurant overlooks Corso Concordia, just steps from Villa Necchi.
Trattoria del Ciumbia | Photography by Paola Pansini
Restaurant | Via Fiori Chiari, 32, 20121, Milano, Italia
The just-opened Trattoria del Ciumbia, designed by Milanese design studio dimorestudio is renowned for its innovative twists on authentic Italian cuisine. The trattoria is inspired by the warmth of traditional eateries from the 1960s in Milan’s Brera district, exuding warmth with its rich-liver red interiors that include a selection of dimorestudio’s contemporary furniture.
Orsonero Milano | Photography courtesy of Orsonero
Coffee Shop | Via Giuseppe Broggi, 15, 20129, Milano, Italia
Orsonero Coffee is your one-stop specialty coffee shop located in Milan’s Porta Venezia neighborhood. Managed by Canadian barista Brent Jopson, Orsonero Coffee offers an ‘evolving menu’ of classic espressos and single-origin filter coffees
Antonioli Milano | Photography by Simone Bossi
Boutique | Via Pasquale Paoli, 1, 20143, Milano, Italia
Under the banner of ‘Fashion Forward Luxury’, Antonioli sits at the intersection of fashion and architecture. The boutique’s interior features dynamic spatial arrangements; an avante-garde approach that speaks to the curation of niche and emerging designers alongside established brands.
10 Corso Como | Photography courtesy of 10 Corso Como
Department Store & Café | Corso Como, 10, 20154, Milano, Italia
10 Corso Como, founded by Carla Sozzani in 1990, revolutionised the concept of retail, with the idea of a lifestyle concept store. Featuring a store, café, cultural space and 3Rooms suites, the cultural destination blends fashion, design, art, and cuisine, often presenting their own exhibition during Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile.Milano.
Contraste Milano | Photography courtesy of Ristorante Contraste
Restaurant | Via Giuseppe Meda, 2, 20136, Milano, Italia
Contraste is a Michelin-star restaurant by Matias Perdomo, Thomas Piras and Simon Press that has always had no menu. Within ‘the halls of an ancient villa protected from the noise of the city’, Contraste aims to surprise guests with ‘an unexpected experience’ that both ‘provokes and entertains’.
Favorite Milan Restaurant? "I am very passionate about cooking, and the best haute cuisine is at Contraste – where the chef Perdomo of Peruvian origin, creates a truly unique experience."
– Federica Biasi
Ferragamo Via Montenapoleone | Photography courtesy of Ferragamo
Boutique | Via Montenapoleone, 20/4 20121, Milano, Italia
Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen is the design eye behind the new boutique for the Italian fashion house Ferragamo on Via Montenapoleone. The boutique is set within the 15th-century Palazzo Carcassola Grandi and embraces the building’s historic character with contemporary brushstrokes, such as the focal sea-blue ceramics by Milanese studio Analogia Project founder Andrea Mancuso.
