A stone’s throw from Moscova subway stop, set in a crossroads between Via Marsala and Via Solferino, Al Baretto San Marco is the last seafood restaurant from the consolidated project “La Gioia Restaurant”. For a dinner away from the hustle and bustle that animates the streets of the neighborhood, Al Baretto welcomes you in a warm environment that inspires a leap back in time, at that golden age between the 50s and 60s that was for the Bel Paese the occasion to shine with unique carelessness.
Let’s forget the trivial modernity of many restaurants in Milan, the staff will make you sit in a place where elegance never results in impersonality and the staff’s friendliness never borders on rigidity and detachment. In a studied triumph of reddish woods, warm soft lights and decorative elements that immediately transport in the living room of a gentlemen fond of aged whiskey and horse racing, the undisputed protagonist is the bar counter, that catches the eye of the customer as soon as he crosses the entrance. Luxury and good life are mantras that as loving tyrants enchanted Milan’s youngsters during the years of “Dolce Vita“. Designed to rebuild the charm of that same period, Al Baretto offers a unique dining experience, and Flawless can only acknowledge its success.
Here you can taste a typical seafood Italian cuisine, focused on quality and recovery of ancient techniques of processing and cooking raw materials. In this regard, it is worth mentioning the visionary nature of the kitchen in the use of Josper oven, an innovative tool that allows to control the internal temperature with great precision, giving the dishes a delicate smoked scent thanks to a double cooking chamber for coal and food.
The menu is an ode to the simple, authentic and satisfying taste of traditional dishes: you can start your tasting itinerary with fragrant pieces of Normandy butter-flavored brioche bread, Carmagnola pepper and Galician anchovies, let yourself be tempted by a soft Venetian style creamed hake and continue the experience savoring the essence of the Mediterranean Sea with a dish of creamy spaghetti with clams and mullet bottarga. To conclude this visionary journey with the flavor of salty air, the menu allows you to choose from a selection of dishes ranging from the delicacy of croaker to more complex flavors, like that of lobster with beurre blanc. Finally, the young and attentive service, friendly and impeccable, ensures maximum attention to the customer.
At Baretto San Marco, lunch and dinner turn into a parenthesis that makes you feel pampered from beginning to end, transported in the atmosphere of a time and place far from the chaos of the city night life, colorful, alive, fascinating, but from which it is pleasant to take a break to live a moment of tranquility in a golden atmosphere.
