What is most of the time unknown is that in Italy there are many different sorts of cheese which are tasty and spicy such as taleggio, stracchino, gorgonzola.So milk, cream, butter, cheese … are generally the most important things to eat in Milan and in the whole Lombardy.It sounds strange, but it is true. The greater part of the dishes consist of milk and cream, butter and mascarpone, cheese and ricotta, even the names of the towns, such as Crema and Cremona remind you cheese. However do not think everything is the same and tastes the same: there is a big variety and the cuisine of Milan is very rich. Rice tends to be more popular than pasta, in fact rice absorb more cheese butter and broth, and sometimes vegetables or meat are mixed in. Pasta is however important such as "tortelli di zucca", ravioli stuffed with pumpkin, otherwise "pinzoccheri" buckwheat noodles cooked with potatoes cabbage and cheese. Don't forget the soups: "zuppa pavese" broth with bread and eggs, and "zuppa di porri e bietole" with leeks and chard. Another typical meal is "polenta", topped with mushrooms or meat, that's what you need in winter. Finally, what about meat? Here you are "bresaola" dried beef; "carpaccio" thinly sliced raw beef; "arrosto" roast meat such as beef pork or veal; and sausages. These meals are served with side dishes such as beans, mushrooms, or salad.

Enjoy the milanese cuisine in:
RESTAURANTS or by yourself with our RECIPES

Recipes: some Typical Dishes of Milan

Büseca - a stew of tripe, butter, tomatoes, and beans.
Cassöla – a stew made from fish
Cotoletta- breaded fried veal chop
Ossobuco- braised veal shanks
Piccata Milanese- slices of fried chicken
Panettone – panettone (cake)
Risotto alla milanese- prepared with saffron onions and white wine

You can find recipes and other typical dishes on the website:

http://www.melegnano.net/gastronom000.htm

LA BUSECA - The Milan Tripe

The term "buseca" refers to the cattle's intestine (tripe). Rinse the tripe under cool running water, and bring it to a boil. Brown some butter, onions, sage and bay-leaves in a frying pan. Add the tripe with a half cup of white wine to the frying pan. Then pour some hot broth with a little of tomatoe sauce in the frying pan. Salt and pepper to taste and cook for two hours. In a pot cook 200gr of garbanzo beans and bring to a boil. Add garbanzo beans to the tripe 10 minutes before it is ready. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese and serve.

LA CASSOLA-The fish soup

Scale, wash and dry the fish (1kg mixed fish). Pour 1 cup of olive oil into a large saucepan. Slice and fry the onion, garlic cloves, chopped persley , red pepper and dried tomatoes. Add two ladles of water and boil for 5 minutes; then add the fish. Serve the fish in a bowl on a bed of 2 slices of toasted bread.

LA COTOLETTA-The typical secondo

Flatten the veal cutlets out with the palm of your hands, put them in the flour and then in the beaten eggs. Then dredge the cutlets in bread crumbs, meanwhile heat olive-oil in a frying pan until hot. Add the cutlets to the frying pan and cook quickly turning once, so both sides brown. Serve hot garnished with parsley and a segment of lemon.

L'OSSOBUCO-The milanese speciality with "gremolata"

Dust each piece of veal shanks with seasoned flour. Heat olive-oil, butter, garlic, onion and celery, in a heavy-bottomed frying pan. Cook for about 5 minutes until soft not browned. Add the shanks to the pan and cook for 12-15 minuts, until well browned all over. Pour a half cup of white wine in the pan (if necessary add a cup of water) cover it and cook for 1 hour, or until the meat is tender. To make the "gremolata" mix together lemon zest, parsley and garlic. Before serving the shanks, cover them with the gremolata sauce.

LA PICCATA MILANESE- Fried slices of chicken with sauce

Pound slices of chicken with a mallet if necessary to tenderize. Sprinkle with a little salt, dust with flour, then dip into beaten eggs and Parmesan cheese. Heat olive oil and sauté chicken until golden brown on both sides. Then remove from pan. To the same pan add mushrooms and ham and sauté until are soft. Remove the ham and mushrooms and discard all the liquid from the pan. Put the cutlets back into the pan and add the ham mushrooms a little broth and 1 tablespoon of butter. Simmer and shake occasionalliy the pan until the sauce is smooth. Remove cutlets from the pan and pour the sauce over. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

IL RISOTTO ALLA MILANESE- The famous milanese first course "primo"

Il "risotto alla milanese" is a saffron risotto, and the traditional accompaniment to "ossobuco". RECIPE: In a large saucepan melt butter and cook the onions until are traslucent. Pour a cup of white wine and continue cooking until is nearly evaporated. Add the rice and cook for two minutes. Add one cup of the boilig broth season with salt and stir. Continue adding broth as it evaporates, until rice is between "al dente" and tender stirring constantly. A few minutes before rice is done add the diluted saffron and stir. Cover and leave the risotto for 5 minutes before serving. Serve with Parmesan cheese.

IL PANETTONE - The milanese cake

Traditional cake in Milan and known all over the world. People usually snap up boxes of this traditional cake at Christmas time. It is quite dry and studded with fruit and candied peel. According to history it was invented by the noble Ughetto Atellani ("ughett" in milanese dialect means raisin) in the 15 century. But according to others, it was invented by a simply boy of a bakery whose name was Toni ( "Pan de Toni" that's why "panettone). By the '50s the panettone is become famous thanks to the sweet industries which produce this cake. In this way the panettone could be apprecieted not only in milanese pastry-shops, but everywhere.

 

RESTAURANTS

Eating out in Milan is a very good experience especially for your belly! Milan offers an infinity of restaurants of all kinds and you can choose the one that you prefer the most. Moreover, as Milan is a cosmopolitan city, there are restaurants from all over the world from ethnic to mexican running to japanese. When you'll have fininshed your dinner, remember that the night is not over because many locals are waiting for you!!! See nightlife if you want to have fun throughout all night. Now that you know everything, what would you like to try?

ITALIAN CUISINE
TYPICAL MILANESE CUISINE
ETHNIC RESTAURANTS and MUCH MORE



ITALIAN CUISINE

Gattò

Address: Via Castelmorrone 10
Telephone: +39 02 70006870
Closed on Sunday and on Monday. Mediterranean cuisine and a very nice atmosphere are the ingredients of this restaurant whose specialià is the "tortino di patate".

Bistrot

Addresse: Via San Raffaele
Telephone:+39 02 877120
Closed on Sundays and Monday at lunch. This restaurant is on the top of the departement store Rinascente. It is elegant and provides a great view over the city. You can choose from three differet menus: Milanese, Vegetarian, or Fish.

Grand'Italia

Address:Corso Garibaldi 9
Telephone: +39 02 86462414
Everyday open. Great variety of salads, pizzas, and cakes, with a young and efficient service.

Il Bolognese

Address:Corso Genova 3
Telephone:+39 02 58100824
Closed on Sunday. It is a very characteristic restaurant that offers excellent "pasta" hand made, fish, and meat.

Conchetta

Address: Via Conchetta 8
Telephone: +39 02 8323389
Very good cuisine and good service.

Ponte Rosso

Address: Ripa di Porta Ticinese 23
Telephone: +39 02 8373132
Closed on Sunday and on Monday at lunch. It is an old "trattoria" along the Navigli zone. It offers regional dishes good cheese soups and wines.


 


TYPICAL MILANESE CUISINE:

Trattoria Casa Fontana · 23 Risotti

Address:Piazza Carbonari 5
Telephone:+39 02 6704710
www.23risotti.it/
Closed on Saturday at lunch and on Monday. Milan’s delicicy is rice, called risotto. Here at this restaurant you have the choice of 23 different ways of risotto. At the evening you can also have a all-rice menu.

Da Berti

Addresse:Via Algarotti 20
Telephone+39 02 669427
www.daberti.it
Closed on Sunday. Ristorante Da Berti has a traditional Milanese cuisine since 1866. A specialità is the “Magnum alla Berti” which is a veal shank with saffron rice.

El Brellin

Address: Vicolo Lavandai
Telephone:+39 02.58101351
www.brellin.com/intro.htm
This old Milanese atmosphere with wooden ceilings and fireplaces at the Naviglio will be a nice evening with good dinner. The restaurant offers Milanese and Lombard cuisine which also shows creativity.

Milanese

Address:Via Santa Marta 11
Telephone:+39 02 86451991
Closed on Tuesday, this "trattoria" still holds on local gastronomic traditions.


If you are the biggest fan of the italian pizza, don't worry because there's a "pizzeria" on every corner in Milan


ETHNIC RESTAURANTS and MUCH MORE

Serendib

Address:Via Pontida 2
Telephone:+39 02 6592139
This is a Sri Lanka restaurant, that offers a choice of menus based on vegetables meat or fish. Very pleasant scene.

Giardino di Giada

Address: Via Palazzo Reale 5
Telephone: +39 02 8053891
Closed on moday.This is a Chinese restaurant near the Cathedral, very nice and informal atmosphere.

Tara

Address:Via Cirillo 16
Telephone;+39 3451635
Indian Restaurant.

Ali Baba

Address:Via Cadore 56
Telephone:+39 02 5450046
Closed on monday. Lebanese restaurant, very good starters.

Poporo

Address:Via Piccinni 25
Telephone:+39 02 29404997
Closed on monday, it is a japanese restaurant.

Cueva Maya

Address:Viale Monte Nero 19
Telephone:+39 02 55185740
Closed on monday. Excellent Tex-Mex cuisine to try.

Berimbau

Address:Via Marghera 43
This is a Brasilian Restaurant.

El Paso de los Toros

Address:Via Lazzaro Palazzi 7
Spanish cuisine.

Don Juan

Address:Via Altaguardia 2
Spanish cuisine.