Dezeen rounds up Milan designers’ favorite places to eat, drink, and wander during design week, from old-school restaurants to a few less obvious city spots.
Here’s the image from the Milan spots roundup.
Sarah
Sarah
I always like these lists less for the “hidden gems” and more for the little tells about how designers move through a city — where they go when they’re tired, not just when they’re trying to be seen. Milan during design week can feel like one long queue, so any rec that’s calm and walkable is basically gold.
The “calm and walkable” bit you mentioned is so real — during design week i mostly just want a place i can sit and get an espresso without committing to a 45‑minute line, so what’s one spot on your list that actually stays chill even when everything else is a queue? not sure on that part yet.
During design week nothing “stays chill, ” but Bar Basso tends to be more manageable earlier in the day and it’s easy to bail if it starts turning into a scene. I usually aim for a quick espresso standing at the bar and keep moving before the lines find me.
That is lovely
“This is dangerously ‘now I need to book a weekend in Milan’ content” is exactly where my brain went too — which of the haunts they mentioned feels like it’d actually be worth building a whole weekend around? honestly not sure on implementation.
You mentioned Bar Luce being basically a Wes Anderson-ish set you can sit in even if you bounce off museums — do you think it’s still chill enough to build a whole weekend around, or has it turned into a constant line situation now? I might be wrong here.
