Milan's Best Trattorias Combine Personality With Panache

Owing to Milan's international character, finding all kinds of first-rate food from sushi to Indian dosas is certainly easier than in Rome or Florence, and in its number of Italian regional trattorias and ristoranti you'll find Milan dotted with entries from Sicily, Tuscany, Liguria, Abruzzo and, of course, its own region of Lombardy.

         Many have been in the city a long time, and the local favorites are certainly more interesting than the tourist-favored places within the Galleria. Since Milan is such a fashionable city, the concierges tend to steer foreign visitors to the most stylish and most expensive spots—some good, some merely expensive—like Pacifico, Niko Romito, Torre in the new Prada building, the Armani Ristorante and Dolce & Gabbana's Bar Martini.

         Good or not, those are decidedly not where the Milanesi eat regularly. Smaller trattorias are more their style and cheaper.

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