Osteria La Piola In Milano

27/05/2025: Historic place with a purely Lombard menu. I particularly appreciated the snails (already shelled) and the yellow risotto.

24/05/2025: A truly special evening in one of the meccas for lovers of Milanese cuisine, a place that has made the history of Milanese cuisine... in short, very high expectations and, in the end, fully satisfied. The restaurant is located in a peripheral area of ​​Milan, but full of history, a place that seems to have come out of a song by Jannacci or Gaber, a place that smells of work, fatigue, fog, cold... but inside so much warmth and so much tradition. Our dinner begins with a sharing of a dish that sent us into a tailspin: nervetti! Eaten dozens of times, but here they offer them in a variation never tried: hot with onion, parsley and vinegar. A sublime dish. We then continue with the dish that deserves the highest step of the podium of the evening and not only that, in fact their risotto with saffron stims, superior butter and Lodigiano Riserva is almost perfect and, from memory, I don't remember having eaten better ones... and that's a very strong statement given that we are Milanese doc! We continue with an off-menu item for my wife, that is, a long-cooked veal tip that, having tasted it, I have no hesitation in defining it as truly excellent; I go for a "classic" dish: the Milanese cutlet that they offer in a tall version, with bone and pink. The quality of the meat is 10 and praise, cooking is not exactly pink, it was a little over, but let's say that the taste is not affected: moist and exceptional frying. Not full, I allow myself to finish with a plate of snails, divine! The evening was bathed in an excellent Lugana di Ca' Lojera Riserva del Lupo 2020.