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Anadima
Prozac is no match for 40 bocconi perfetti (perfect bites) of cold cuts and cheeses, 60 varieties of wine, and a serotonin-laced hot-pepper-chocolate soufflé. The manic pink and green pop-art decor looks on the bright side of every day or night by the Navigli.
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Antica Trattoria della Pesa
A Milanese recipe for instant nostalgia: Take the landmark building where Ho Chi Minh stayed in the 1930s, add literary types from nearby Mondadori and Rizzoli publishing houses, mix with Milanese comfort food and plenty of wine, then finish with tarte tatin that would make Marcel Proust weep. Repeat as necessary.
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Artidoro
Strange but true: salami is an aphrodisiac at Artidoro, where platters of the local Milanese speciality with sides of grana padano cheese start couples cooing in the candlelight. What happens after the juicy cotoletta alla Milanese and flirty Lombard reds by the glass is your own business.
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Bar della Crocetta
Think sandwiches are nothing to write home about? Get ready to break out those postcards once you pick from the seven-page (!) menu of marvellous panini (grilled sandwiches) , from the Alé! (salami, prosciutto, scamorza cheese, arugula, hearts of palm) to the Zia (bresaola, fresh mozzarella, tomato, lettuce).
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Be Bop
Forget Chianti-bottle candelabras and year-round Christmas lights - this pizzeria is pure Milan style, with a tree growing in a glass box in the middle of the restaurant, salvaged wood flooring paving the walls and lighting that'll make a model of you yet. Go with the classic mozzarella di buffala pizza with fresh tomatoes, followed by dense, intense chocolate salami.
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Ex Mauri
If haute cuisine ever climbed down off its pedestal and ran off with a roguish Venetian osteria, their love child would be Ex Mauri. Pull up a schoolhouse chair at a lovingly scuffed table for imaginative Venetian-inspired seafood, and desserts made in-house - including dreamy lemon gelato.
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Fingers
When Brazilian chefs and Italian restauranteurs get together in Milan, they make sushi and beautiful music together. This trendy tatami-matted ristorante does a brisk trade in Italian carpaccio/sushi and squid ink risotto to Nobu defectors wanting less attitude and more food for their money.
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Giulio Pane e Ojo
If all the Roman restaurants in town were this winsome, Milan would probably start calling itself Mediolanum again. The wait staff dish up Roman sass when asked to help you choose between the bucatini amatriciana (tube pasta with tomato, pecorino and pig's cheek) and saltimbocca (veal with sage and bacon). At these prices, puh-lease - you can't lose.
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Il Coriandolo
Like a little black dress, Il Coriandolo is the classic choice to accompany gallery openings or business meetings - and in the right company, it hints at other possibilities. The house spumante is a worthy prelude to house-made truffle ravioli with butter and crispy sage, whether you've come for a power lunch in a leather banquette or scintillating dinner conversation in the covered garden.
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Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone
Prosecco and pesto linguine in an ivy-covered courtyard surrounded by Gucci, Stella McCartney and Dior: yep, you're in Milan. Enjoy your arugula salad among models trying not to appear terminally bored by their banker husbands, and inspire envious glances with the decadent tiramisu.
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Italian Bar
Flattery gets you everywhere at Peck's blush-pink lunch bistro that gives everyone a healthy glow, with help from superb wines by the glass. The bow-tied wait staff will be pleased to recommend a Barolo to accompany your tortellini Peck and bresaola (dried salted beef) with arugula, capers, oil and lemon.
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Le Vigne
Blindfold yourself and point at the menu, because that's the only way to choose among zucchini flowers stuffed with artisanal herbed ricotta, risotto with shrimp and nasturtium flowers, and a salad of octopus, artichoke and zucchini. Get them all with a glass or two of the house wine and enjoy the stupor of the culinarily blessed.
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Luini
Stockbrokers and student radicals, models and their harried hairdressers might get together here and sing Kumbaya, if they didn't all have their mouths full. Panzerotti is Milanese for yummy at this popular purveyor of pizza-dough pastries stuffed with cheeses, spinach, tomato, pesto and prosciutto.
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Paper Moon
Lust for labels may have brought you to Quadrilatero d'Oro, but this house-made tagliolini with shrimp and zucchini blossoms may inspire you to take up permanent residence. If you can get past the primi (first courses) and the wood-fired pizzas, try the heartbreakingly tender carpaccio with arugula and grana padano cheese with the sprightly white Vernaccia.
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Pizzeria Spontini
A hot slice isn't a fall back but a first-rate choice at this wood-fired pizza joint. The frosted-glass and chrome decor may be new, but traditionalists need have no fear: this is the same pizza dough recipe responsible for rejuvenating Corso Buenos Aires shoppers since 1953.
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Ristorante Bagutta
The Ministry of Cultural Resources calls Bagutta a historical landmark, but your taste buds will call it fabulous: the tasty lamb chops with sage and the melt-away spinach gnocchi with gorgonzola have kept napkins expectantly tucked under chins here since 1920.
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Ristorante Cracco
It's only a matter of time until Milan names a street after chef Carlo Cracco, the master of Milanese invention. Dignitaries arriving with much fanfare in chauffeured Mercedes are quickly reduced to hushed awe as the seasonal menu materialises: seafood pasta with espresso sauce, salt-crusted sole and dark chocolate crochettes with caviar.
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Ristorante Solferino
Salivary glands have worked overtime here for a century, thanks to hearty classics like osso bucco swathed in risotto, unexpected delights like fish tortelloni, and an extensive vegetarian menu. Join Italian film stars risking their girlish figures with the in-house pastry chef's creations, and journalists steadily losing their objectivity over a superior wine selection.
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Teatro7
Dinner theatre takes on new meaning with a web cam and open kitchen revealing three chefs at work on fusion creations, road-testing cutting-edge kitchen technology. Audience participation night is Tuesday, when diners cook their own gourmet meals under a chef's guidance - in Italian, with self-explanatory hand gestures.
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