Best restaurants in Milan 2026: 14 tables worth booking

The best restaurants in Milan in 2026 are these 14 tables, chosen from the MICHELIN Guide Italia 2026 and the city's own trattorias and pizzerias, from a three-star tasting menu to a €5.70 slice of pizza. If you book only one, make it Enrico Bartolini al Mudec, the only three-star restaurant in Milan.

Milan holds more MICHELIN stars than any other Italian city: after two new one-star restaurants were added in January 2026, Procaccini and Abba, the guide counted 25 stars in the city. The 2027 selection will be presented in Piacenza on 12 November 2026, so the distinctions below are those of the current 2026 edition.

This list of the best restaurants in Milan puts eight starred dining rooms next to four trattorias for risotto, cotoletta and ossobuco and two pizza addresses. For the dishes themselves, start with our guide to what to eat in Milan. Where a restaurant does not publish its prices, we give the MICHELIN price band, from € to €€€€.

In Milan, a saffron risotto at a trattoria is as serious as a three-star tasting menu.

Enrico Bartolini al Mudec, Tortona: first of the best restaurants in Milan

Enrico Bartolini's flagship sits inside the Mudec, the Museo delle Culture at Via Tortona 56, with Davide Boglioli as resident chef. It holds three MICHELIN stars, the city's only three-star rating, for creative cooking built on Italian produce.

Price band €€€€. It opens Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner; book online well ahead. Bartolini also cooks in the Quadrilatero, at Monsieur Dior in Montenapoleone.

Seta by Antonio Guida, Brera

The restaurant of the Mandarin Oriental, at Via Monte di Pietà 18, holds two MICHELIN stars under chef Antonio Guida. The kitchen offers three tasting menus: one of classics, one seasonal and one built around a single ingredient.

Price band €€€€. Closed Sunday and Monday; bookings go through the restaurant directly.

Andrea Aprea, Porta Venezia

On the top floor of the Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Corso Venezia 52, the Neapolitan chef Andrea Aprea holds two MICHELIN stars. The three tasting menus are Contemporaneità (four courses), Partenope (six courses of reworked Campanian classics) and Signature (eight courses).

Price band €€€€. Dinner Tuesday to Saturday, plus Saturday lunch; book online through TheFork.

Verso Capitaneo, Duomo

The Capitaneo brothers cook creative Mediterranean food at Piazza del Duomo 21, with two MICHELIN stars in the 2026 guide. It is the most central of the city's two-star tables, a few steps from the cathedral.

Price band €€€€. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday; lunch and dinner on the other days.

Contraste, Ticinese

Matias Perdomo's restaurant at Via Giuseppe Meda 2 holds one MICHELIN star for modern, playful cooking served through two tasting menus, Riflesso and Riflessioni.

Price band €€€€. Dinner every evening, lunch on Saturday and Sunday.

Iyo, Sempione

Iyo, at Via Piero della Francesca 74, holds one MICHELIN star for contemporary Japanese cooking; the guide names Giampiero Brotzu as head chef. Dinner runs on two tasting menus, one of recent creations and one of signatures, with a shorter à la carte at lunch.

Price band €€€€. Closed Monday; bookings by phone with the restaurant.

Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, Lorenteggio

Opened by Aimo and Nadia Moroni in 1962 at Via Montecuccoli 6, this one-star restaurant is now run by chefs Alessandro Negrini and Fabio Pisani, who sign two tasting menus and keep the founders' "Piatti del Cuore" on the card.

Price band €€€€. Dinner Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.

Joia, Porta Venezia

The vegetarian restaurant founded by Pietro Leemann, at Via Panfilo Castaldi 18, holds one MICHELIN star and a green star for sustainable practice. Sauro Ricci and Raffaele Minghini now lead the kitchen, which uses no eggs and no cheese made with animal rennet.

Price band €€€€. At lunch, the five-tasting "Piatto Quadro" is the lighter way in. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Trattoria Masuelli San Marco, Porta Romana

A century-old trattoria at Viale Umbria 80, run by the Masuelli family, with Massimiliano Masuelli now in the kitchen. The menu balances Lombardy and Piedmont: mondeghili meatballs, risotto giallo, vitello tonnato, a bone-in cotoletta and, off the menu, ossobuco.

No stars and no fuss. Book online or by phone a few days ahead, and check hours, which change through the week. Cook the braise at home with our ossobuco alla milanese recipe.

Ratanà, Isola

Chef Cesare Battisti's restaurant stands at Via Gaetano de Castillia 28, between Isola and the Porta Nuova towers. MICHELIN lists it in the €€ band for contemporary Italian cooking with Milanese roots, including a risotto alla vecchia Milano with gremolata and roast juices, and mondeghili.

The weekday "schiscèta" lunch, one dish with a glass of wine, water and coffee, costs €24; the tasting menu costs €85. Open every day; book on the website.

Trippa, Porta Romana

Diego Rossi in the kitchen and Pietro Caroli in the dining room opened Trippa at Via Giorgio Vasari 1 in 2015. The menu changes daily, but the fried tripe and vitello tonnato stay.

MICHELIN band €€. Dinner Monday to Friday and lunch on Friday only, closed at weekends. It is one of the hardest tables in town: book online as early as you can.

Al Garghet, Gratosoglio

On the southern edge of the city, at Via Selvanesco 36, Al Garghet has cooked Milanese food since 1991 across a string of rooms and gardens. Gambero Rosso singles out the orecchia d'elefante, a wide pork cutlet, and the bone-in veal costoletta, which is best ordered when you book; the ossobuco comes on risotto giallo.

Dinner Tuesday to Sunday, lunch at weekends. Book online.

Futura, Isola

Roman pizzaiolo Luca Pezzetta opened Futura at Via Pietro Borsieri 28 in late 2025, bringing the thin, crisp tonda romana north. Pizzas cost €8 to €16, according to Scatti di Gusto. A second Futura, with a separate gluten-free kitchen, opened at Via Gaudenzio Ferrari 1 on 30 October 2026: our report on the new address.

Spontini, Porta Venezia

The original Spontini, at Via Gaspare Spontini 4 off Corso Buenos Aires, has sold thick, cheese-heavy pizza al trancio since 1953. A classic margherita slice costs €5.70, or €9 for the larger cut, according to MilanoFree's January 2026 price list.

It is the cheapest seat on this list of the best restaurants in Milan. No bookings; expect a queue at lunch.

Best restaurants in Milan: frequently asked questions

Which restaurant in Milan has three MICHELIN stars? Only Enrico Bartolini al Mudec. Seta by Antonio Guida, Andrea Aprea and Verso Capitaneo hold two stars each in the MICHELIN Guide Italia 2026.

How much does it cost to eat at the best restaurants in Milan? From €5.70 for a slice at Spontini and €24 for Ratanà's weekday lunch to the €€€€ band, where tasting menus start at around €150 and pass €300 at the top.

Do I need to book? Yes for every starred restaurant, and early for Trippa and Masuelli. Spontini takes no bookings.

Will the list change with the 2027 MICHELIN Guide? The 2027 stars are announced on 12 November 2026; we will update this list of the best restaurants in Milan if any of these addresses gains or loses a star.

How we chose

We started from the MICHELIN Guide Italia 2026 and its January 2026 update for Milan, then added trattorias and pizzerias that define how the city eats, so that every price level is covered. Restaurants we could not confirm as open in 2026 at a fixed address were left out.

Every address, distinction and price was last checked on 7 November 2026 against the MICHELIN Guide, the restaurants' own websites, Gambero Rosso, Scatti di Gusto and MilanoFree. Prices change; confirm when you book.