Alessandro Bistrot della Pesa In Milano

Franco served us with gold gloves and the food was truly excellent. One of the best I've ever had in Milan!

Amazing food and friendly, polite service. Franco was a great waiter.

Fantastic northern Italian food. Excellent service. Can’t recommend enough!

The restaurant is adjacent to Trattoria la Pesa. It has the same kitchen, meaning it's shared, and the same menu, but with the difference that you get a seat and the dishes cost €2 less. I went for the classics, since it's Milanese cuisine: risotto alla Milanese and veal with tuna sauce. The atmosphere is elegant, and the service is friendly and attentive. Everything was good, although I have to say, €24 for a risotto seems a bit steep (€26 for the same dish at the trattoria).

Nice restaurant in the Garibaldi area. Good, traditional food. A cured meats appetizer, risotto and gnocchi for the first course, and polenta with braised meat for the second. Dessert: zabaglione, truly delicious. Good food, perfect for a business dinner.

Always nice to go back to the bistrot or antica trattoria! Very stylish and authentic, and the food is very tasty.

It's fine...for tourists. The atmosphere is pleasant, the service is good, the ingredients are good, but if I order a Milanese cutlet and get a boneless, breaded slice that's less than 3mm thick (literally), then Milanese people would be better off looking elsewhere.

Excellent restaurant: from the delicious Milanese risotto to the cutlet, even the panettone with cream... Very attentive service, and a place that feels "authentic." Well done.

The Rigatoni that changed my life - I don't know where to begin. Perhaps from the moment I crossed the threshold of Bistrot della Pesa and felt an inexplicable energy in the air. Or perhaps from when the waiter, with an almost angelic stride, placed the work of art in front of me: rigatoni with tomato sauce. Yes, rigatoni with tomato sauce. And calling them "rigatoni" is an understatement: they were cylinders of perfection, likely sculpted by a Renaissance craftsman himself. And the tomato sauce? More than just sauce: it was liquid poetry, an ode to the sun, the very essence of the Mediterranean captured on a plate. At my first bite, I had a moment of inner silence. I think I saw the Duomo light up with an unusual glow, and for a moment, it seemed as if the Naviglio canal was flowing faster. Even my Apple Watch registered an unexpected emotional surge. Every forkful was a chapter in an epic novel. The tomato caressed the pasta like a painter blending red onto a canvas, and I, poor mortal, was just trying to live up to such culinary grace. If Dante had tried these rigatoni, he would have added a circle of paradise dedicated to pasta. The Bistrot della Pesa? A holy place. A temple. A carbohydrate cathedral. Rigatoni with tomato sauce? A sacrament. I still dream about them at night.

Excellent food! One of the best restaurants for Milanese food.