A taste of a dish of traditional Milanese cuisine and you are already in Milan, its soul, its character. The traditional cuisine of Milan boasts dishes known all over the world, which not only have resisted the onslaught of trends, suggestions and trends of the moment, but have come out even more strengthened.
Here is a list of the most important Milanese dishes:
The secret of this traditional Milanese dish lies in the simplicity of its ingredients, which when combined together create a refined and silky flavor. A distinctive sign is the use of saffron, an ingredient that gives the specialty its precious color.
Also known as cotoletta, from the French “côtelette”, it is a dish of the most ancient Milanese tradition. It appears even mentioned in a document of 1148, kept in the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio.
Ossobuco is one of the typical dishes of Milanese cuisine, often accompanied by a "bed" of risotto. The name derives from the dialect ossbus, which means pierced bone and which indicates the piece of meat used: slices of veal shank with their soft meat around and the bone in the center full of its marrow, a true delight of the dish to be tasted.
Mondeghili, this is the name of meatballs in other areas in Milan. Or rather, as Francesco Cherubini defined them in 1839 in his Milanese - Italian Dictionary, mondeghili are "a kind of meatballs made with whipped meat, bread, egg, and similar ingredients".
It is the rather elaborate and very caloric dish that most characterizes Milanese cuisine: the “cassöeula”, based on pork and cabbage. With a strong and decisive flavor, it is a dish that warms up the cold days of winter.
A drink with an intriguing, almost mysterious name: the “Barbajada” which simply recalls its inventor, the Neapolitan Domenico Barbaja. The drink was invented at the “Cambiasi” café, which was located next to the Teatro Alla Scala (therefore also called the Caffè del Teatro) and was a meeting place for singers, musicians and spectators. The inventor Barbaja was in fact the coffee boy.
If you want to have a fish-based meal, fish dancer is right for you, it is a chic restaurant but within everyone's reach, because by booking a table from the fork app you will have a 50% discount! On the amount of the sum spent. The restaurant is also located in the Garibaldi area of Milan, an area that will allow you not only to have a great meal, but also to visit Piazza Gae Aulenti.
If, on the other hand, you want to have a meal away from the chaos of Milan, just outside Milan there is the Al Gheret restaurant which is the perfect place to have lunch or dinner in complete tranquility.
If, on the other hand, you are looking for good traditional Milanese food, in the Porta Vittoria Milan area you will find the Osteria della Concordia, which will thank your palate.
Generally speaking in Italy it is not customary to leave a tip at the table, but every gesture of appreciation from an economic point of view will certainly be appreciated by the restaurants in question. also in Italy there is a formula called covered, which consists in paying for the seat.
