Servers were very sweet and accommodating when I walked in alone at 1:15pm and got me a table…read morewithin 10 minutes. Risotto con l'ossobuco was melt in your mouth and comforting. Tiramisu excellent. Casual but attentive service and atmosphere. So glad I found this place on my one day in Milan biking around. Make reservations!

Simply superb from start to finish!! Exquisite food, gracious hosts, every dish and glass of wine…read morewas perfection. Cannot recommend highly enough, A++

Masuelli era nella mia lista da tempo e oggi finalmente lo abbiamo provato. Esperienza decisamente…read moremolto positiva, locale accogliente e tranquillo, contrariamente ad altre trattorie molto rumorose e con tavoli tutti attaccati l'uno all'altro. Abbiamo ordinato i classici milanesi, Mondeghili e risotto allo zafferano milanese con ossobuco. La cotoletta l'abbiamo vista passare e l'abbiamo "annusata", la proveremo la prossima volta. I Mondeghili molto buoni, accompagnati anche da un piatto di porcini fritti deliziosi. Il risotto alla milanese con ossobuco da manuale, risotto cotto alla perfezione e mantecato giusto, veramente molto buono. La carne tenerissima e saporita, con midollo abbondante. Buonissimo! Abbiamo chiuso con uno strepitoso tiramisù, forse uno dei più buoni mai mangiati al ristorante. Altamente consigliato!

Masuelli San Marco is a delightful old-style trattoria still managed by the elderly Pino Masuelli…read more Founded in 1921, this restaurant has been serving some of the best classical Milanese cuisine the city has to offer for close to a century. Their polenta - a beloved wintertime recipe - takes hours of continuous stirring to cook it to the point where it's fragrant and unctuous to perfection, and despite normally being just a side to a main meat course, here the polenta shines when prepared with raw egg yolk and Raschera cheese fondue. A must-try: the restaurant's terrific pasta and borlotti bean soup. It was a trek and a half to get there with 2 buses and a brisk walk but totally worth it the minute you walk in and greeted by their sweet Italian charm. Reservation needed! Reach out to them ahead of time if traveling from another country.

You can find out about restaurants in the weirdest ways. In Milan, I don't know anyone and don't…read moreknow much about the city. It's all a guess ... or it's McDonald's on Piazza Duomo. Here I was, at Turin's Porta Susa intermodal station and, after entering the Metro area, a guy was having issues with his ticket and was asking me how it all worked. He assumed I was a local. I suppose that was flattering in that I wasn't mistaken for an "ugly American." When he ended up downstairs on the platform, he told me he was from Milan so I asked him for the name of some "real deal" Milanese restaurants that are popular with the locals. Amici Miei was at the top of his list. Amici Miei is not that easy to get to. It's not near the main station or the Duomo. However, the Metro and a short tram ride will get you there. Let me go to the food and then address prices, service, and more. I didn't know what I would eat, so the table next to me "decided" for me. The tables are close to each other and the two young ladies at the adjacent table, one Italian and the other American, had ordered the same dish. I told the server that that's what I'd order. It was a very large Milanese cutlet, which they term "orecchio di elefante" (elephant's ear). That's because the bone is attached at its outer end and gives it that look. The fact that there is a bone can be ignored because the cutlet is generous. It was excellent, not to mention filling, and was garnished with potatoes. For the beverage, I ordered a bottle of mineral water and, to make it last through the meal, I ordered it "gassata." I had called Amici Miei to make a reservation. The person who answered was humorous and accommodating. When I went in, he told me that he had spoken with me on the phone. (Aren't phones great ... for what they were initially intended to do?) The server, the person who bussed the tables, and the cashier at the bar were informally friendly, which works for me. The place is in an older building, is not that roomy, and it must be popular because it was hopping on a weeknight. The fact that the Bocconi (Italy's equivalent of Harvard Business School, but with a higher admission rate) is a few blocks down the street probably sends customers their way. The price was a Milanese price, hence an urban Northern Italian price, and fair for the bountiful cutlet. The name Amici Miei is sort of funky. If you said "miei amici," that would mean you're talking about your friends in casual conversation. Inverted, "amici miei" sounds more declarative in an endearing or formal way, as if standing in front of a room with a gavel or about to make a toast, and then continue with what you wish to announce. This helped me remember the name of this restaurant that the Milanese visitor at a Turin Metro station told me about.

We ordered the cutlet & risotto. The portions (especially the cutlet) were generous. Overall, the…read morefood was good, though nothing out of this world. Service was slow and cold.

First time I tried Swordfish and it could have not been better!!! All of our dishes were great but…read morethe Risotto Milanese that disappointed us a little bit. Besides that it was a great experience, service was outstanding.

Top rating. Got it recommended by a local colleague. I had the Risotto Milanese as a First course…read moreand it was excellent. The Main Course Baccala Alla Vicentina - Cod with Polenta Coating. That was even better. If 10 stars could be given I would give 11 ;) Only but very minor "complaint": Although it is claiming "traditional Italian" it is also selling Fois Gras :) Again outstanding experience.

Perfect getaway from the city center of Milan. Easily reachable by taxi/uber. The place is very…read morecozy, but also super big at the same time (lots of tables). The food is local and comforting, highly recommend!

Not easy to reach Al Garghet: in fact, it is in Milan, but at it's limits, in the first fields and…read moreagricultural environment of the Lombardy countryside. Beside this, cars GPS normally suggests crazy ways to reach it, so Google Maps is much better! Several typical and different old fashion dining rooms, full of nice paintings and accessories, also with a piano, played during dinner. Great service and typical traditional Milan food: risotto, cotoletta, ossobuco, brasato, polenta and many, many others. Large wine list, with many excellent regional ones: Inferno, Sassella, Sfursat.... Very attractive prices. Even if is large, reservation is a must.

Lovely trattoria with a great kitchen based on local Milanese traditions; with a tiny modern touch…read more I went all in for the traditions with a superb Risotto Milanese beautifully flavored with an abundance of safran. The steak milanese was a poem! Thick, perfectly cooked rosa with a thin crust. Impeccable service!

We were looking for someplace not too far from Linate airport for dinner on our last night in Milan…read moreand found this through Yelp, about 12 minutes (€15) away by taxi. There doesn't seem to be much in the neighborhood for strolling around from what I could see so don't plan on spending time in the area beyond dining. It definitely seemed like a locals haunt, there were no other obvious tourists there that I could tell, at least not from U.S. They seated us with no reservation ahead of time so that was good (Friday night around 8:30 pm). The menu mentions "Milanese" food and I'm not sure what that entails very well but do know this isn't a place for what one thinks of as traditional Italian food, in terms of marinara/red sauce pastas, etc. we got an order of spaghetti and either they mixed it up as something else or Milanese spaghetti is way different than I imagined it as the sauce was a green pesto-base. It was fine but not what I imagined nor how I thought the menu described it. We also got the risotto and that was very good! I get it that dinner in Europe is often a slower affair than in the U.S. but the service was quite slow. We ordered a beer and it came quite a bit later (and in a room temperature bottle) and then later we asked for a 2nd bottle of water. It hadn't come after 5 or so minutes so when the waiter asked if we wanted desert we ordered tiramisu and reminded him we wanted more water. It never came even by the time dessert arrived some 10 minutes later so we again asked for that second bottle of water. It finally arrived after we were done eating the dessert! Then when we got our bill it had a charge for THREE bottles of water. The menu/type of food I can't fault, it just wasn't in my wheelhouse but I have to ding the rating on the fairly slow service.

This was a very cool place! They had so many food choices. The pizza was delicious -- I definitely…read morerecommend it!

Disclaimer: I'm a U.S. tourist…read more My family and I stumbled upon this place as it was somewhat near our hotel. What drew me in was the lack of an English menu. They did however have an iPad linked to their website which gave English translations. The salami plate starter was fantastic and quite generous. The house red wine was incredibly drinkable as well. And for only €8 for half a bottle? Such a steal! For my main course, I had the fettuccine ragout and was not disappointed. Across the board, everyone at our table noted how high quality the pasta was. I really want to give them five stars because I loved my experience here. If only the air conditioning was a little bit stronger... I felt a little too warm while I was dining. The red wine which I couldn't resist didn't help either.

While I lived in Milano this was one of my go-to places for authentic milanese food and jam…read moresessions downstairs, where local musicians or those on tour, doing concerts or studio sessions, would pop down and join in on any given night. I will be going back home in mid-September and can't wait to go have dinner with friends and catch up with the owners, Leo and Mario Arlati whom I haven't seen since moving to London, England back in 1986. It's not in the center of Milano but a ways outwards, and there wasn't much problem finding parking but since I'm visiting I won't have to worry about that this time. I longingly remember the linen tablecloths and napkins, proper silverware and glassware that is rarely found in restaurants here in the US, even in the better ones; not unless you're in a diamond-rated hotel/restaurant that class of service is not common. They have always had an extensive wine cellar, so I am curious to taste new additions and to find out what menu additions and or changes the brothers have made to the classics I always enjoyed there. The ambiance - which I hope hasn't changed - was that of a pleasant and relaxing, formal but not stuffy, mansion of a gentler age, unruffled and unrushed by Milano outside its doors. I wonder if that ostrich is still out there in the foyer? Plants I seem to remember too, and the food! Sooo good, never leaving anything on the plate and wanting more, even of the Cotoletta alla Milanese or the Risotto...yum! Fittingly, the prices reflect the gentle service and quality of the food sourced, the wines offered will complement the meal and exalt its flavors, and honestly, if you're going out for a great evening of dining and maybe even enjoy some music downstairs afterward.... the price is absolutely worth it! A presto Trattoria Arlati, non vedo l'ora di rivedervi !!!

After returning from our annual 7 week grand tour of Europe there is one restaurant, among many…read moregood ones, for which we have the best memories. Without a doubt, every year, it is Trattotia Arlati in Milano. And this is after dining in Rome, Paris and London. It is the combination of the eclectic/artsy/sophisticated dining environment once you walk through the door in a local neighborhood, the elegance of the table settings, the wonderful menu with traditional dishes cooked to perfection, the robust wine list along with superb local wine perfectly served in carafes, and of course the family like atmosphere led by Davide and his thoughtful staff. There are so many wonderful restaurants throughout Milan, Italy and Europe. But this one holds a special place in our hearts. It is not to be missed!