Where to eat tasty and inexpensive in Milan: an overview of inexpensive restaurants, cafes and pizzerias

If you happen to be in Milan, be sure to try the local cuisine and Italian ice cream. Also, try to get on Happy Hours. However, with the choice of places you need to be careful not to spend all the money. To do this, check out the budgetary institutions of Milan.

Traditional dishes

What is worth trying out while in Milan?

• Panzerotti with cheese - delicious Italian pies.
• Ossobuco is a veal braised shank with a brain bone. It is cut and served with risotto.
• As a side dish, Milan restaurants can offer other options: cornmeal porridge called "Polenta", mashed potatoes, green peas, beans, carrots or pieces of fried bacon.
• Kassela - pork with savoy cabbage, stewed in a pot. Sometimes this dish is prepared with the addition of pork sausages, tails and skin - so it becomes more piquant.
• Milanese risotto is a traditional rice dish cooked in meat broth. A special ingredient is saffron, thanks to which the risotto acquires an appetizing yellow hue and a stunning aroma.
• Minestrone - vegetable soup. The ingredients may vary depending on the time of year. So, beets, legumes, lettuce, various types of cabbage, potatoes, celery, lettuce, fennel, parsley, spinach, carrots are added to the soup.
• Myketta is a star-shaped crisp bread.
• Panettone - a Christmas treat, similar to Easter cake. When baking, candied fruits, raisins or pieces of chocolate are added to the dough.
• Negroni sallyato - the famous Italian cocktail with the addition of sparkling wine.

Cafe

Where to eat tasty and inexpensive? In Milan, some cafes do not offer Italian cuisine at all, but a preheated microwave oven at a high price. In order not to accidentally wander into such an institution, try to think through the route in advance. So, in the city center near the Duomo Square there are wonderful and inexpensive cafes.

• Brek is a self-service restaurant. Standing in line with trays, you can select the desired dishes, and then go to the cashier to pay. Food quality is excellent, prices are affordable. Location: located next to San Babila Square. It is worth considering that Brek is closing for a siesta. This period of time in Milan (and throughout Italy) lasts from 12 hours 30 minutes to 15 hours 30 minutes.
• Panzerotti Luini is a cafe that is truly famous. It became famous for its delicious cakes and a secret recipe for their preparation. There are long lines at lunchtime, but the service is quick enough.
  
  This place is considered a tourist attraction and is always recommended for tourists. Location: Panzerotti Luini, Milan. The cafe is located behind the Rinashento store.
• The Obiko bar restaurant chain is located throughout Italy. The main feature of the restaurant is mozzarella cheese. They do not cook pizza, but there is a large selection of cold appetizers and delicious cheese platter. Location: located in the Rinashento store building on the top floor. After 22:00, the restaurant can be reached through another entrance, which is located to the left of the store building in the alley.
• Spizziko bar - a chain of restaurants. It has a fairly quick service and reasonable prices, but the selection of dishes is small. The restaurant is perfect if you want to save time and money. Location: located on Dante Street, connecting Castello Castle with Duomo Square.
• Milano Centro Restaurant & Lounge Cafè. The institution pleases with a convenient location, affordable prices and mode of operation. The cafe is open on weekdays and weekends. Location: Piazza Cesare Beccaria. It is located behind the Exelsior Shopping Center.
• Cafe Armani - a stylish institution. Here, inexpensive drinks and delicious desserts. It is worth noting that drinking coffee and eating dessert at the bar will cost less than at the table. Rumor has it that Giorgio Armani himself sometimes enters this cafe. Location: Via Croce Rossa 2, the building of the largest Emporio Armani store on the ground floor.

Restaurants

• Al Conte Ugolino is a seafood specialty fish restaurant. It fully answers the question "Where to eat tasty and inexpensive in Milan", since there are really affordable prices and good food. Italians love this restaurant, there are always a lot of people.
• Risoelatte is a famous and inexpensive restaurant in Milan. Having come to this institution, you can not only enjoy delicious food, but also see Italy in the fifties.
  
  Book a table in advance, as there are practically no empty seats here. The menu offers a variety of dishes: risotto, lasagna, pizza and others. The main dish of the restaurant is ravioli. Want a sweet tooth? Order tiramisu or berry pie.
• Salsamenteria di Parma is a small restaurant in the city center. It seems unremarkable, but if you pass by, you will miss a great opportunity to eat tasty and cheap. The institution offers fairly large portions of traditional dishes. Wine is served not in glasses, but in special bowls.
• Andry - A restaurant with impeccable service. The wine list is presented by refined drinks. Spicy seafood dishes are the hallmark of the establishment. The menu includes pasta, salads, and snacks. The restaurant likes to give gifts to customers - it can be a free dessert or a drink.
• Valentino Legend Milano - a restaurant of national cuisine of Italy. Dishes are prepared right in front of visitors, which attracts many tourists and Italians themselves. Prices are quite affordable. Restaurant specialties include carpaccio, chops and steaks.

Where to eat delicious and inexpensive pizza in Milan?

During the working week, Italians often order food at home, and Saturday is considered the traditional day of eating pizza. Where to go to taste it, many tourists are interested, because this food is tasty and budget. In the state of the best pizzerias in Milan, only Italian chefs. Let's talk about some of these restaurants:

• La Taverna is famous for real Neapolitan pizza. There are often no empty seats, so you should book a table in advance - this is one of the best restaurants in the city. The pizza is thick, juicy, with high and crispy sides. Real jam!
• Pizzeria Spontini is one of the oldest restaurants operating since 1953. It offers tasty and inexpensive pizza, which is cooked here very quickly. The pizzeria is famous for its crown recipe, which includes oregano, tomato sauce, anchovies and mozzarella.
  
• Vecchia Napoli is famous for its pizza called Sud, which received several awards. It is prepared on the basis of Parmigiano, a famous Italian dish. Eggplant spread around the perimeter. Pizza baked with basil and cheese in the oven - very tasty and satisfying. Better come here hungry.
• Pizzeria Fresco - A restaurant with a modern interior. The menu includes Neapolitan dishes: pizza, pasta and desserts. A very unusual pizza, which is prepared with the addition of cottage cheese, is called Lasagnetta.

Have a quick bite

Where to eat tasty and inexpensive in Milan when time is running out?

• ll Kiosko. The menu includes seafood dishes, stuffed rice zrazy and other Sicilian food.
• The Meatball Family. On the menu: vegetarian cutlets, meat and fish dishes.
• Roast Eat. On the menu: various kebabs, traditional for such a region of Italy as Abruzzo.
• BONBakery of Naples. On the menu: Neapolitan cuisine.
• Chic & Go. On the menu: delicious sandwiches and buns.
• Focacceria Genovese. On the menu: Genoese tortillas and traditional Ligurian food.

Vegetarian Restaurants

Supporters of a healthy diet will also find wonderful places where they can fully enjoy Italian cuisine.

• Govinda. The restaurant offers soup, salad, vegetables, traditional bread, side dish, dessert, herbal tea, ginger drink. Here you will not find meat, onions, fish, garlic, eggs, alcohol. Dishes are served on a tray.
  
  The hall has large tables for 6-8 people, and this is a great opportunity to meet new people. To enter the restaurant you need a membership card, which can be issued on the spot in a few minutes, its cost is 3 euros. New guests are given a book as a gift.
• Ghea. On the menu: Mediterranean-style vegetarian food, snacks, soft drinks. Often there are meetings with famous people who choose healthy food and experts from this area. From Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00, the Happy Hours campaign is held when food and drink prices become cheaper.
• Noi Due. The restaurant offers dishes prepared with organic products. This ravioli with tomatoes and spinach, hummus with fresh vegetables, carbonara pasta with tofu and seitan and other vegetarian-style food.
• Viva BuonoFrescoNaturale. It offers hearty vegetarian dinners. Restaurant Viva in Milan is quite budget.
• Bio e Te. The menu includes both vegetarian food and vegan-macrobiotic cuisine: cereals, soybeans, vegetables. The restaurant invites you to enjoy sugar-free pastries, bio-bean and tea.
• Radice Tonda. The menu is represented by a huge number of vegetarian dishes. These are salads, hot and cold soups, side dishes, desserts, vegan hamburgers, grilled vegetables, lasagna, tacos, seitan rolls, pasta in the oven, vegan sauces. From drinks: herbal teas, coffee, biovino and bio-beer, cappuccino with soy milk.

Italian ice cream

Traditional gelato is prepared by hand, each cafe in Milan has its own unique recipe. Where to try it?

• Cioccolati Italiani. Specializes in chocolate ice cream.
• Gelato Gianni. Pay attention to orange sorbet, pistachio gelato or with hazelnut.
• Granaio. This cafe is worth a visit in order to look at the ice cream towers in the window.
  
• Gelato Giusto. A distinctive feature is unusual tastes. For example, for sale there is a gelato "Ricotta with a bitter orange", "Basil flower" and others.

Happy hour

Happy Hour is very popular in Italy. It usually starts after 6:30 p.m. Almost every bar provides a large alcoholic cocktail for a moderate fee, and there are many snacks to choose from, like a buffet.

Bars in Milan

• Boh !? - A great place to spend an evening with friends. The bar has happy hours. For example, on winter Thursdays, beer costs from 3.5 euros.
• 20 Twenty - the famous lounge bar. The main feature is the happy hours. So, you can have a good dinner and drink an alcoholic cocktail here for only 10 euros.
• Tipota Pub. The bar has a pleasant atmosphere, you can drink craft beer and eat free snacks.
• Frizzi e Lazzi - the atmosphere of a sports bar from the seventies. It serves local beer of excellent quality, shows matches on TV.

• Bar Basso. You can try the famous Negroni Sbagliato cocktail. It is poured into huge glasses, and instead of ordinary ice cubes, ice blocks are placed. Rumor has it that it was here that this cocktail was invented and the Milanese tradition associated with the reception of an aperitif was invented.