Michelin released the 2024 edition of its Italy guide on November 15, 2023, so I felt compelled to update my round-up of Michelin-starred restaurants in Milan and my dear Lombardy.
The Italian Michelin Guide lowdown: this year’s big news is that chef Norbert Niederkofler, whose restaurant St. Hubertus in the Dolomites holds three Michelin stars, earned a few more. His Atelier Moessmer in Brunico (Alto-Adige) received three stars as did Fabrizio Mellino for his restaurant Quattro Passi in Nerano (Campania), bringing Italy’s total number of three-star restaurants to 13. Niederkofler is also involved in a restaurant in Milan that received its first star.
Of the 395 restaurants in Italy with starts, Lombardy plays host to 60, which total 72 stars that render it Italy’s most-starred region. It’s followed by Campania ( 51 restaurants, 61 stars); Tuscany, which surpassed Piedmont this year (41 restaurants, 59 stars); Piedmont (40 restaurants with 48 stars); and the Veneto (32 restaurants, 38 stars).
The 60 Michelin-starred restaurants in Milan and Lombardy are distributed as such: three three-star, six two-star, and 51 one-star. Scroll down for the list, or you could read up on some Milan Michelin food culture below before scrolling down.
Milan’s three-star history
When Enrico Bartolini‘s namesake restaurant at Milan’s MUDEC Museum received its third Michelin star in 2020, the Milanesi were thrilled. At the time, it was the 11th restaurant to earn the distinction—but what added to the excitement was that Italy’s first three-star restaurant was in Milan: the late Gualtiero Marchesi’s namesake restaurant in Via Bonvesin de la Riva. It opened in 1977, and Marchesi received his first star that same year, his second one a year later, and his third in 1985. He closed the Milan restaurant in 1993 (and moved it to Franciacorta). So, Bartolini’s third star is significant: after 25 years, Milan once again has a three-star restaurant.
The 2024 Italian Michelin guide set a record for Bartolini. His restaurant Bluh Furore at the Amalfi Coast’s five-star Furore Grand Hotel received a Michelin star, bringing his total stars to 13, an honor that upholds his status of Italy’s most- and the world’s second-most-starred chef. In addition to the previously mentioned restaurants, Bartolini’s repertoire includes Anima at the Milano Verticale (one), Locanda Sant’Uffizio in Piedmont (two); l’Osteria Il Poggio Rosso in Tuscany (one); Glam at Palazzo Venart in Venice (two); Locanda del Sant’Uffizio in Monferrato (one); La Trattoria Enrico Bartolini at Castiglione della Pescaia in Maremma (one), and Villa Elena in Bergamo (one).
On the new-starred-restaurants-in-Milan front, Andrea Arpea earned a second star this year and Verso Capitaneo, which opened earlier this year, debuted on the Michelin list with two.
Anyhoo, here’s a look at the Michelin-starred restaurants in Milan as well as in Lombardy in general—it’s divided according to provinces with the town, city, comune, or village in parentheses. For Milan, I only included parentheses for the one restaurant that’s in the province of Milan, but not the city proper like the rest. Those in italics indicate new additions to the Michelin Guide.
Milan
Three stars
Enrico Bartolini al MUDEC, chef Enrico Bartolini
Two stars
Andrea Aprea at Fondazione Luigi Rovati, chef Andrea Aprea
Seta at the Mandarin Oriental, chef Antonio Guida
D’O di Davide Oldani, chef Davide Oldani (Cornaredo)
Verso Capitaneo, chefs Remo Mario Capitaneo
One star
Aalto, chef Takeshi Iwai
Anima at the Milano Verticale Hotel, chefs Enrico Bertolini and Michele Cobuzzi
Contraste, chef Matias Perdomo
Berton, chef Andrea Berton
Cracco, chef Carlo Cracco
Felix Lo Basso home & restaurant, chef Felice Lo Basso (green star)
Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, chefs Alessandro Negrini and Fabio Pisani
Horto, Chef Alberto Toè with the involvement of Norbert Niederkofler
Iyo, chef Michele Biassoni and sushi master Masashi Suzuki (Fun fact: the first non-Italian restaurant in Italy to earn a Michelin star!)
Joia, chef Pietro Leeman (green star) (Fun fact: the first vegetarian restaurant in Europe to earn a Michelin star!)
L’Alchimia, chef Davide Puleio
Sadler, chef Claudio Sadler
Viva Viviana Varese at Eatly Smeraldo, chef Viviana Varese
Bergamo
Three Stars
Da Vittorio, Chicco and Bobo Cerea (Bursoporto)
One star
La Tortuga, Maria Cozzaglio & Orietta Filippini (Gargnano)
Bolle, chef Marco Stagi, (Lallio)
Contrada Bricconi, chef Michele Lazzarini (Oltressenda Alta)
Umberto De Martino at Florian Maison, chef Umberto De Martino (San Paolo d’Argon)
Osteria degli Assonica, chefs Alex and Vittorio Manzoni (Sorisole)
LoRo, chef Pier Antonio Rocchetti (Trescore Balneario)
San Martino, chef Beppe Colleoni (Treviglio )
Osteria della Brughiera, Paolo Benigni (Villa d’Almè)
Impronte, chef Cristian Fagone (Bergamo)
Il Saraceno, Chef Roberto Proto (Cavernago)
Villa Elena, Marco Galtarossa (Bergamo)
Brescia
Two stars
Villa Feltrinelli a Gargnano, Stefano Baiocco (Brescia)
Miramonti l’Altro a Concesio, chef Philippe Léveillé (Brescia)
One star
Al Gambero, chef Maria Paola Geroldi (Calvisano)
Due Colombe, chef Stefano Cerveni, (Borgonato)
Esplanade, chef Massimo Fezzardi (Desenzano del Garda)
Capriccio, Giuliana Germiniasi (Manerba del Garda)
Il Fagiano, chef Maurizio Bufi (Fasano del Garda)
Leon d’Oro, chef Alfonso Pepe (Pralboino)
La Rucola 2.0, chef Gionata Bignotti (Sirmione)
La Speranzina Restaurant & Relais, chef Fabrizio Molteni (Sirmione)
Lido 84, Giancarlo and Riccardo Camanini (Fasano del Garda)
Sedicesimo Secolo, chef Simone Breda (Pudiano)
Como
One star
Il Sereno al Lago, chef Rafaelle Lenzi (Torno)
Il Cantuccio, chef Mauro Elli (Albavilla)
Materia, chef Davide Caranchini (Cernobbio)
Kitchen at the Sheraton Lake Como, chef Andrea Casali (Como)
Trattoria Contemporanea, chef Davide Marzullo, (Lomazzo)
Cremona
One star
Vitium, chef Michele Minchillo (Crema)
Lecco
One star
Bianca sul Lago, chef Emanuele Petrosino, (Oggiono)
Lodi
One star
La Coldana, chef Alessandro Proietti Refrigeri
Mantova
Two stars
Dal Pescatore, chefs Nadia, Giovanni, and Bruna Santini (Canneto sull’Oglio)
Pavia
One star
Lino, chef Andrea Ribaldone (Pavia)
Villa Naj, chef Alessandro Proietti Refrigeri (Stradella)
I Castagni, chef Enrico Gerli (Vigevano)
Sondrio
One star
Il Cantinone e Sport Hotel Alpina, chef Stefano Masanti, (Madesimo)
La Preséf, chef Gianni Tarabini, (Mantello)
Lanterna Verde, chef Roberto Tonola (Villa di Chiavenna)
Varese
One star
Acquerello, chef Silvio Salmoiraghi and Choi Cheolhyeok (Fagnano Olona)
La Tavola at Hotel Il Porticciolo, chef Riccardo Bassetti (Laveno)
Sui generis., chef Alfio Nicolosi (Saronno)
*Italics indicate a new entry for the 2024 Michelin Guide.
Cover Photo by Delightin Dee on Unsplash
