Milan is a beautiful city, specialty famous for exhibition, expo and business meetings. The city is a complete mixture of different nationalities and almost everywhere you can find the English translations of boards, menu and advertisements.
The plan is to have a Italian style dinner in the center of town in an old famous Italian restaurant. Make the booking before on weekends as the restaurants are fully crowded and people queue outside for a place. The restaurant chosen is Santa Marta restaurant, near Duomo (city center).
Italian style: Italian are really good eaters, I haven't seen any other who eat this much amount and spend 3-4 hours just for dinner.
The booking s made form 08:00 pm and that's actually little early time for locals to eat dinner, the dinner actually starts from 08:30 and goes till midnight. The menu are with a 2 types of starters,some bread and snacks are on the table all the time, then comes the white or red wine, then a middle dish of pasta and finally the main dish,lastly there is sweet. The service is repetitively slow,may be just to make the food digested till the next dish come. Finishing everything from the plate is a common practice and locals eat everything whatever served.
See whats offered in a restaurant in Italian way.
starter bread, the back one is really nice,its like bread baked and then dried .
Potato snacks are crispy and I think a paste of potato with flavor is deep fried
4 different style of marinated fish with vinegar, olive and salt and steamed prawn in the middle
steamed vegetables with olive oil
Pasta with a fish sauce
small pasta with a tomato sauce
Fried Fish with lemon, nice taste but not sure what type of fish it taste like chicken and feel like the fish meat is pressed in this shape and then fried
Steamed spinach with salt. Little garlic and yogurt would make it good
Soft cookies made form white part of egg
I could hardly eat half the things,but I think they offer according to local eating style.
