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Cafés in Milan
Some restaurants in Milan:
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Victoria Café
1, Via Clerici
Description: Overcrowded with bankers, brokers and style-obsessed rich kids (fighetti) between the canonical hours of 6pm and 8pm.
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Café Marino alla Scala
Located on a corner of Piazza della Scala has been recently added to the Trussardi's Palazzo Marino alla Scala.
Description: It offers 10 daily changing main dishes backed up by a wide range of snacks. The first-floor restaurant, fiefdom of Stefano Garibaldi (formerly of the splendid La Terrazza in via Palestro), is in quite another price range.
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Café Cova
8 , Via Monte Napoleone (00 39 02 7600 0578).
Description: The classic via Monte Napoleone cafè, displaying the local bourgeoisie in all its awful glory. Get there by 4.30 pm to book a table in advance, and make sure it's in the main room rather than in the salon privé behind, where the sightlines are too limited. Ask for a pot of tea, some milk, a plate of pasticcini (tea cakes) and sit back to enjoy the show. The service is reassuringly haughty, and prices reassuringly high.
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Café Sant'Ambroseus
7 , Corso Matteotti (00 39 02 7600 0540).
Description: A classic cake-shop and tearoom, offers a soberly elegant décor and a faultless service. Its 1930s design reconciles two contradictory Milanese impulses, a sober work ethic and a taste for luxury. Sit in the pink stucco room and sip your cappuccino in company with perfectly coiffed Milanese matrons and creative types fuelling up for a hard day in the atelier. For a real sugar rush, order a small plate of ambrogiotti, dark chocolates filled with zabaglione. Before Christmas, come in to buy a gift-wrapped panettone.
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Café Luini
16, Via Santa Radegonda (00 39 02 8646 1917).
Description: A tiny bakery on a side-street off the Cathedral Square, is one of the few city-centre addresses to offer more than the usual desultory tramezzini (sandwiches). The most typical product is the panzerotto, an Apulian speciality made with pizza dough and filled with tomato and mozzarella or with fresh cheese and spinach.
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Café Marchesi
Located between the Stock Exchange and the offices of the Adelphi publishing house.
Description: The elegant, mahogany-and-mirrors bar also serves excellent cakes and does a roaring trade on Sunday morning, when coiffed Milanese matriarchs wait imperiously for trays of little paste mignon. It is equally good in the early evening for a Negroni or a Campari soda, served by the inscrutable barmen.
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