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Dining

Restaurants generally concentrate on the decor and service than a trattoria, which is a small-scale family run restaurant. A Tavola Calda provides hot dishes and snacks, with spacious seating arrangements for their guests. A rosticceria offers the same and a take away along with that.

You will find that the menu will be posted in the window or just inside the door of an eating establishment. Many restaurants offer a menu that comprises of a complete dinner palate. These restaurants have arrangements for limited few entrees. They are reasonably priced including service taxes, usually with extra beverages.

You will find that a lot of restaurants close for Christmas, which is through the first week in January and also for a good part of August.

Lunch is served from 1am to 3am, dinner from 8pm to 10:30pm and some times even till later.

A. Top Restaurants

Da Aimo e Nadia uses fresh ingredients for its outstanding Italian dishes and hence, is one of the best restaurants in Milan. Da Aimo e Nadia has been usually appreciated for its fresh produce and lavish Italian cuisine.

Cracco-Peck is a popular place to have lunch where they serve delicious Italian cuisine in a contemporary interior. The dining room is done up in the most well designed style that favors cool earth tones. Their Specialties include Milanese classics such as saffron risotto and breaded veal cutlet, steam-cooked tiramisu. Reservations are very much essential owing to the crowd the restaurant pulls up.

Giannino is famous for its classic Milanese cuisine as its aesthetic view.

You could also choose to dine at Don Carlos as it offers a traditional and intimate ambiance with homemade pastas.

Ristorante Il Teatro has an excellent blend of supreme service with the most amazing seafood but they are only open for dinner.

Armani/Nobu offers costly fusion Japanese and sushi in the most trendy atmosphere.

Alfredo, Via Borgese and Antico Ristorante Boeucc would be the most excellent choice if you were in a mood to have traditional Milanese dishes.

Da Berti offers lovely risotto and other Italian dishes in a stylish ambience.

Savini serves excellent Milanese cuisine in the most sophisticated setting.

Marino alla Scala supplements Mediterranean cuisine that includes the most popular fish and vegetables.

Bagutta is renowned since 1927 and in its Lombard-Tuscan fine cuisine.