Don Lisander

Found this lovely courtyard restaurant while walking down the street. Peaceful and lovely sunny views of a garden. The food was excellent and very friendly waiter and staff. Would thoroughly recommend.

Elegant place with good local food and top vines!

Lovely place hidden from the street with possibly to sit outside with garden view inside the courtyard. Great and knowledgeable service and good wine suggestions. Recommend👌🏻

Our go-to restaurant in Milano.

As expats in Tokyo, Japan for over a decade and being a couple of foodie, we are very spoiled with high quality food/cuisine.

We found this restaurant by accident in 2016 on our honeymoon very close to our hotel, and we fell in love with it right away. My very picky eater half Italian husband is always satisfied with their food. Me being a very difficult and picky person when it comes to food is happy with almost all their food.

Since then it became our tradition to go there every time we go back to Europe, when we do our traditional shopping vacation in Milano.

The atmosphere is very nice, nothing to complain about.

Travelling all over Asia and Europe I noticed the service styles under different countries and culture are very different, to be fair I think we can’t say “it is bad” just because it’s not the service we are used to. The service at this restaurant is correct in my opinion, in a normal and proper Italian manner, though could be a little bit more welcoming generally speaking, but nothing to really complain about. In my case they were very happy to help when I asked a hand to go down the stairs to the ladies room when I was sacred falling with my sky high heels.

All in all we really like this restaurant and we will keep our tradition to go back. Even with our kids when they are bigger.

Even considering July is the busiest time of the year in Milan, we couldn’t understand the waiter’s attitude. When we asked for a recommendation for champagne, he just pointed out the most expensive one without explaining anything. Even after we ordered that one, he kept being rather arrogant or indifferent. When we ordered Orangina, what he said the restaurant has, he brought us an orange flavored Fanta already opened without asking us first.

Food was so-so and quite salty overall, especially the meatball. We liked the Milanese veal but as you know it can’t go so wrong in Milan. I wouldn’t go back or recommend this place.

The place is beautiful from an architectural point of view. Staff very kind.
Too pricey for what you get.
A risotto for 28 euros is a flat children’s size plate. A shame for an Italian restaurant.

How lucky were we to walk into this gorgeous restaurant. Off the beaten path in Milan (very close to the Duomo) we walked in and suddenly were calm. Every element in the restaurant was perfecto — decor, service and food. We started with the Cod Carpaccio and the Tuna Tartar. Beyond amazing! For mains, we had the Risotto alla Milanese (Risotto with Saffron) and the spaghetti with red shrimp and lime. These dishes paired perfectly with the Vermmentino Canayli white wine. We finished with the Tiramisu, cappuccino, and double espresso. The food was so good, I’m officially dead.