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New Year’s Eve, like Christmas, is always contentious: there are those who adore it, ready to go wild with parties and do the conga, and those who don’t even want to hear about it. And then there are those who celebrate it in the Caribbean, but – let’s be clear – this article is not for them. If, on the other hand, you are in the perfect balance between partying and relaxing, and prefer to spend New Year’s Eve in Milan without chaos, but in style, enjoying great food, sipping quality drinks, and perhaps enjoying good music in a polished atmosphere, you are in the right place. Here is our selection of the 10 best restaurant and cocktail bar in Milan where to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2025 with style, elegance and taste.
MOEBIUS
Via Alfredo Cappellini, 25
New Year’s Eve dinner at Moebius, an eclectic and fascinating multi-level space, freshly awarded a Michelin star, bears the signature of chef Enrico Croatti, who promises to set you off on the perfect sensory journey to welcome in 2025! The menu that will sumptuously accompany you at midnight includes a welcome cocktail accompanied by 4 delicacies, followed by Cuttlefish stuffed with artichokes and beurre blanc, Raviolo with Parmesan cheese, onions and forest teryaki, Veal fillet with cauliflower milk and sea molecules, with white truffle mashed potatoes. And, to end on a sweet note, Biancaneve – apple meringue. And after midnight, as per tradition, cotechino and lentils with piada, dried fruit and grapes.
Price: 140€ per person, excluding drinks. Info and reservations HERE.
SALMON GURU MILANO
Via Ezio Biondi, 4
Salmon Guru, the world’s most unconventional cocktail bar has recently arrived in the city, just in time to treat the Milanese to a memorable New Year’s Eve evening! Ranked 23rd in the prestigious list of The World’s 50 Best Bars, Salmon Guru is a promoter in the world of the most creative and quality mixing, which will obviously also feature on the menu for this New Year’s Eve dinner. To toast to 2025, you can taste 1 drink from a selection of signature & classic cocktails and glasses of wine, to accompany delicacies such as Jamon Iberico de Bellota with fresh tomato, pane carasau and fried gnocchetto, Nigiri with marinated perch in ponzu sauce and puffed crunchy bread with kimtchi sauce, Beef cheek cooked at low temperature, with fried yuca croquette, raspberry sauce and chocolate shavings with coconut milk dressing, and Basque-style cheesecake with red fruit jam. And from 11 p.m. onwards, dancing with DJ Set!
Price: €125 per person including 1 drink, food and a special surprise at the stroke of midnight. Info and reservations HERE.
IYO RESTAURANT
Via Piero della Francesca, 74
Among the features that set Iyo apart are: the refinement of its dishes, the beauty of the location, the fact that it belongs to the Liu family, a name that is a guarantee when it comes to high-level Asian cuisine and, of course, the fact that it is the only ethnic restaurant in Italy that can boast a Michelin star. For New Year’s Eve 2025, it proposes an exclusive menu that marries the elegance of contemporary Japanese cuisine with some more traditional twists, such as Hotate, a dish that includes Lentils with miso, Wagyu lard and lovage, or Artichoke with sesame, with tuna, botargo and squid ink. Then there are raw dishes, as well as the much-loved pork ravioli and the prestigious Wagyu, ending with a surprise dessert, reminiscent of Neapolitan culture: Babà with citrus fruits, served with champagne.
Price: 250€ per person, pairing not included. Info and reservations HERE.
SETA
Via Andegari, 9
In the heart of Milan, a few steps away from the fashion district, inside the Mandarin Oriental Milan, Seta boasts 2 Michelin Stars and makes the refinement of the dishes prepared by chef Antonio Guida, the excellence of a wine cellar with more than 500 labels and the refined aesthetics of its interiors its stylistic features. With these premises, its New Year’s Eve 2025 dinner can only be unforgettable: among the highlights of the tasting menu featuring game and white truffle, it is impossible not to mention the roast blue lobster with bagna cauda, cuttlefish, vanilla bisque and white truffle and the venison and pigeon pie with winter vegetables. The bold and original dessert, in pure Seta style, is Hazelnut, with pumpkin, star anise, pomegranate sorbet and sangria reduction.
Price: 520 € per person, including a welcome glass of champagne. info and reservations HERE.
FOUR SEASONS MILAN
Via Gesù, 6/8
The Four Seasons Hotel Milan is one of the most charming properties of the famous Canadian group. Located in the fashion district, in a former 15th-century convent, it offers an oasis of peace and beauty in the city centre. For New Year’s Eve, its main restaurant Zelo offers a special dinner in an elegant and festive atmosphere, with an exclusive menu combining Italian ingredients and innovative flavours, for an unforgettable experience, both for visitors and for the Milanese who want to treat themselves. The menu includes a series of amuse bouche and appetisers, Lobster risotto, oysters and candied lemon or alternatively Raviolo al plin stuffed with osso buco, prized black truffle and 48-month Parmesan fondue, a choice of meat or fish main course and a mouth-watering dessert of chocolate mousse, spiced pineapple, Speculoos and macadamia nuts. And at midnight, the unmissable toast.
Price: €480 per person, excluding drinks. Info and reservations HERE.
TERRAZZA GALLIA
Piazza Duca D’Aosta, 9
On the seventh floor of the Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Milan, an art deco hotel located next to the Central Station, the rooftop bar and restaurant Terrazza Gallia offer unparalleled views. The restaurant, whose cuisine is created by chefs Antonio and Vincenzo Lebano, offers a sumptuous New Year’s Eve menu. A cascade of hors d’oeuvres, including an oyster, a mock caviar of lentil and celeriac, Milanese scampi and light lemon mayonnaise, paves the way for the main dishes: Black truffle risotto mantecato al parmigiano vacche rosse ‘Gennari’ and Spalletta brasata al porto bianco, soft polenta taragna and herbs. And the dessert? Worthy of a banquet, including small pastries, panettone, nougat, pandoro and mandarins. All enlivened by musical entertainment.
Price: €190 per person, including a bottle of Pommery champagne for every 2 people. Info and reservations HERE.
SADLER
Via dell’Annunciata, 14
This Michelin-starred restaurant led by chef Claudio Sadler is a landmark for fine dining lovers in the city. It recently moved from its historic location on the Navigli to the 5-star Casa Baglioni hotel. Here, amidst references to Italian art and design from the 1960s, you can pamper the palate, but also the spirit, with a spectacular New Year’s Eve menu that combines tradition and creativity, in full Sadler style. Among the starters, the Foie gras crème caramel with lobster and coffee caviar with balsamic vinegar is surprising, then it’s back to a classic (but not too classic) with the Cappelletti in capon broth with Grana Padano mousse and the Petto di faraona in casseruola with crispy Savoy cabbage, Piedmontese toma cheese fondue and truffle. And to finish, orange aspic with mandarin sorbet and, of course, panettone.
Price: € 300 per person, excluding drinks. info and reservations HERE
EL PORTEÑO PROHIBIDO
Via Macedonio Melloni, 9
El Porteño Prohibido, the most mysterious and intriguing of the El Porteño venues in Milan, serves typical Argentinian meat dishes while enjoying tango shows. To celebrate New Year in the most caliente way possible, it offers a menu that combines iconic dishes and unusual proposals, accompanied by a selection of wines and cocktails. The protagonist, of course, is the parilla, or grill, with main courses such as the Lomo Buenos Aires (fillet of Argentinean Black Angus), Entraña (intercostal cut of Black Angus) and Wagyu, preceded by a series of themed starters and accompanied by typical side dishes. Dessert combines Italian and South American flavours: panettone and pandoro with dulche de leche cream. All enhanced by an exciting show, capable of making the last night before 2025 truly unforgettable!
Price: €250 per person, excluding drinks. Info and reservations HERE
A’RICCIONE TERRAZZA12
Via Durini, 28
New Year’s Eve is celebrated in style at A’Riccione Terrazza12, a rooftop overlooking the Milan skyline. Chef Marco Fossati offers a refined menu combining Mediterranean tradition and international influences. The evening begins with appetisers such as Savoury pancakes with caviar, Peruvian amberjack tiradito and Cocollos oysters with pomegranate granita. This is followed by main dishes that mix sea and earth ingredients, such as Risotto with porcini mushrooms, redfish and red wine reduction, and Roasted red corba steak, chestnut cream, fried artichoke and sea umami. For dessert, a memorable mille-feuille and at midnight a classic cotechino with lentils. All accompanied by selected wines and cocktails, and the music of DJ Brando, to end the year in all glamour, until 3am.
Price: €160 per person, excluding wine. info and reservations HERE
ERBA BRUSCA
Alzaia Naviglio Pavese, 286
Who can resist a New Year’s Eve menu called ‘80’s revival’? This is proposed by Erba Brusca, a restaurant at the end of the Naviglio Pavese canal, on the boundary between the countryside and the city, which makes genuine, seasonal ingredients its strong point, thanks to the adjoining garden from which the vegetables come. Russian salad, prawn cocktail, liver pâté, Pennette alla vodka, champagne and strawberry risotto, ending with an iconic Banana Split, are just some of the evocative 80s dishes presented, with all-contemporary taste and skill, by chef Alice Delcourt.
Price: 95 € per person, including a bubbly aperitif. info and reservations HERE.
