| Milan Travel Advice 13:09 - Apr 25 with 1105 views | Samuelowen88 |
Anyone been to or know Milan?
There next week for a few days for work and need some places to eat out.
staying in the Città Studi area of the city so either round there or central (although assume central might be quite expensive / tourist trappy?)
Its a work trip so nothing massively fancy or expensive. Maybe more of a places to avoid post.
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| Milan Travel Advice on 13:21 - Apr 25 with 1058 views | stonojnr |
Just the once, around 2001, December, if you know you know ;)
There was a pizza place in or near the shopping arcade around the Duomo area, sat outside kind of an alleyway, not cheap, but much of Milan isn't cheap. |  | | |
| Milan Travel Advice on 13:29 - Apr 25 with 1043 views | artsbossbeard |
Have a wander down to the Navigili district, circa 3miles from Citta Studi.
Loads of decent restaurants canal-side and not too touristy. |  |
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| Milan Travel Advice on 13:32 - Apr 25 with 1036 views | SomethingBlue |
Was there last week for work and had an outstanding lunch at Pasta d'Autore – basically exactly what you'd expect, excellent fresh pasta and decadent, flavoursome sauces. Decently priced and seemed well populated by locals and visitors. Not really near to Citta Studi at all but in a nice, central part of town walkable from Duomo. | |
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| Milan Travel Advice on 13:47 - Apr 25 with 992 views | Sarge |
Stay away from the central train station. The area is iffy and a lot of the restaurants are tourist scam places run by sketchy characters.
There's a Filipino restaurant called Mabuhay which is very good. | | | |
| Milan Travel Advice on 15:18 - Apr 25 with 832 views | Wacko |
Milan has an excellent and very old China town (the second largest in Europe) | |
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| Milan Travel Advice on 21:34 - Apr 25 with 687 views | TractorWood |
It's a bit of a hole imho. Go to Turin is my honest advice. [Post edited 25 Apr 21:36]
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| Milan Travel Advice on 07:36 - Apr 26 with 576 views | PrideOfTheEast |
Take the train one hour to Varenna (seriously). Some fantastic restaurants overlooking the lake.
Milan is a dive. | | | |
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| Milan Travel Advice on 11:11 - Apr 26 with 541 views | Sacrebleu |
When ordering a latte, say cafè latte. Otherwise you get a cup of hot milk. |  | | |
| Milan Travel Advice on 11:30 - Apr 27 with 361 views | urbanpenguin |
I am in Milan every month or two, and will be there in a couple of weeks.
It's a lot more expensive than most Italian cities, and you're less likely to get a good meal in any place you wander in to, but the chances of good, affordable food in a random place are hundreds of times better than anywhere in the UK. So you will be fine.
Use your sniff test and you will be fine - if the menu is laminated, the clientelle are all tourists, you can see the Duomo from the outside plastic tables etc etc it will be bad.
As someone said, the Navigli canal area is good and quite un-Milanese in vibe.
The place I discovered last time I was there a couple of weeks ago was MAG La Pusterla - Caffe con Cucina, a phenomenal negroni bar with very good small plates.
You are staying near the Politecnico, so there will be no shortage of good bars and affordable, non-tourist food there. |  | | |
| Milan Travel Advice on 11:32 - Apr 27 with 349 views | urbanpenguin |
| Milan Travel Advice on 07:36 - Apr 26 by PrideOfTheEast |
Take the train one hour to Varenna (seriously). Some fantastic restaurants overlooking the lake.
Milan is a dive. |
It's a work trip, the OP says, and he doesn't want anything fancy. I don't think he's asking for daytrips... And, to be honest as someone who visits Italy very regularly, Milan is not the city it was a decade ago, and the Milanese are slowly getting less annoying.
Milan is in no way a dive, it has some of the best art museums and culture in the country, it has incredible architecture all over, and is one of the greenest cities in europe.
You might not like it, cool, many don't. It's not a dive. | | | |
| Milan Travel Advice on 11:42 - Apr 27 with 321 views | urbanpenguin |
| Milan Travel Advice on 21:34 - Apr 25 by TractorWood |
It's a bit of a hole imho. Go to Turin is my honest advice. [Post edited 25 Apr 21:36]
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I love Torino, and if moving to Italy I think I'd move there. But the OP is in Milan for work, however senior they are I doubt they can change the location of the trip based on some football club message board vibes. | | | |
| Milan Travel Advice on 11:52 - Apr 27 with 308 views | MVBlue |
Yes I can sir, for I was in Milan in December 2001. I saw Leonardo Da Vincis Last Supper, the San Siro filled with 10'000 Ipswich fans and Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima R9 run the pitch against Ipswich.
Each a spectacular piece of imagery I will take to the grave. |  |
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