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Restaurants in Milano
Where to eat in Milan: saffron risotto, cotoletta and ossobuco, winter cassoeula, panettone, and the covered markets.
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Eating in Milano
Milan has a rich, buttery city kitchen of meat and rice, living alongside the food of the rest of the world — because the rest of the world lives here.
The dishes that are local
- Risotto alla milanese — saffron and marrow, finished with butter. It is also ordered al salto, crisped in a pan the next day;
- Cotoletta — a veal chop on the bone, breaded and fried in butter. Thick, not the flattened "elephant's ear";
- Ossobuco with gremolada of lemon, parsley and garlic, served with the yellow risotto;
- Cassoeula — cabbage and the humble cuts of pork, a winter dish made after the first frosts;
- Mondeghili, meatballs of leftover boiled beef, the thing to order to understand the city.
The bread and the sweets
The michetta is the roll that is hollow inside, and panettone was born here: out of season the historic pastry shops still have it.
Where the city shops
The covered municipal markets — Wagner, Ticinese, Isola — and the Saturday market on via Fauché. There is something to eat around each of them.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
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