RESTAURANTS:
Like most cities in Italy, Milan and its surrounding area have their own regional cuisine. Cuisine from Milan includes "cotoletta alla milanese", a breaded cutlet pan-fried in butter. Other typical dishes are cassoeula (stewed pork rib chops and sausage with Savoy cabbage and tomato sauce), ossobuco (stewed veal shank with tomato or lemon sauce), risotto alla milanese (with saffron, white wine and beef marrow), busecca (stewed tripe with beans and tomato sauce), and brasato (stewed beef or pork with wine and potatoes). Season-related pastries include chiacchiere (flat fritters dusted with sugar) and tortelli (fried spherical cookies) for Carnival, colomba (glazed cake shaped as a dove) for Easter, pane dei morti ("Bread of the Dead", cookies aromatized with cinnamon) for All Soul's Day and panettone for Christmas. Milan is a city that lives off fashion and trends: there was Chinese cooking, then Indian cooking, then African cooking, followed by Japanese and Middle Eastern cooking. The Milanese people have now returned to their origins, enjoying the tastes with the pleasure that one feels when one returns home after a long trip. Now there are trattorias, inns and restaurants (including luxury ones) everywhere that offer traditional Milanese dishes to eat. Some of the many deserving a taste are:
-Pellaprat [Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 13] Premium restaurant offers high quality Lombardy food.
-Woodstock [Via Vigevano 31] one of the best pizza-slices in Milano is served in this small and cosy restaurant,
-Rinascente Restaurant [Piazza Duomo] at the last floor of the Rinascente store there is a wide range of restaurants, some of which have terraces facing the Milan cathedral.
-I4mori [Via san Giovanni sul Muro 2- http://www.ristorantequattromori.it] Great restaurant right at the city centre, great choice of menus from top Milanese chefs.
