“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Said Virginia Woolf. It is a sacred truth. And if eating well takes place in...

“What is genius? It’s imagination, intuition, willingness and speed of execution.” These words from the movie “Amici Miei” sum up what Alessandro Longhin and Davide Martelli created with their bar. We are in...

Traditions originate from tiny repeated gestures, from rituals that begin randomly and that, equally by chance, quickly become indispensable. R. and I started our own personal tradition to celebrate...

I place the 4cento among the “odi et amo” (love it or hate it) hangouts of my life. A place I began hanging out in about fifteen years ago...

It is Friday night, a cold and rainy one, but finally I leave the office after a hard and busy week. It’s been raining for four days now but...

They present themselves like this: “We wanted a nice place in Milan. We opened it in via Paolo Sarpi 10 (but then we got the civic number wrong)”. These...

My little corner of peace here in Milan is called Di Viole di Liquirizia (licorice violets). A name that brings dreamy images to mind almost fairytale like. Actually when you step...

I have a best friend and she’s called Sissi.  And she is the owner, along with her fun and exuberant Senegalese husband Zig, of the renowned Pasticceria Sissi of piazza Risorgimento. The...

There are three things particularly difficult to do in Milan: book a nice restaurant with a garden, book a good, traditional italian restaurant, find a girlfriend. Well, Flawless Milan has...

Al Fresco is located in Via Savona and, as the sign says it is “a place where people and cuisine meet”. Created by the two owners, Ferdinando Ferdinandi – in...

You don’t just happen to go the the Erba Brusca. It is a restaurant with a vegetable garden at the end of Naviglio Pavese, down towards the suburbs that most don’t really...