Ricci Milano

It was born almost by chance, from the synergy of Luca Guelfi and Simona Miele, Belen Rodriguez and Joe Bastianich, the idea of ​​taking over the Ricci, a historic Milanese restaurant that since 1938 has always been the reference point for the Milanese nights.

By combining their mutual experiences and talents, and by creating a concept inspired by local New Yorkers with bars, restaurants and live musical entertainment, the new Ricci will open on June 22nd.

The mission is to make the local historian not only one of the many meeting points of Milan, but the local par excellence: the experience of Simona Miele and Luca Guelfi, who have opened in the last 20 years in Italy, Spain, the Caribbean and the States United 18 exercises between restaurants and entertainment venues, join the entrepreneurial spirit and the great talents in the world of catering by Joe Bastianich and the explosive charge and magnetism of Belen Rodriguez, successful entrepreneur and television presenter.

The new Ricci will host, between the bar and the dehor area, 170 people seated, more than one hundred people standing for aperitifs and after dinner, and will be open from 7 am to 3 am with a kitchen always active and a partnership with Campello Motors, which will customers can use a car to take home "happier" customers back home at the end of the evening in complete safety.

The furniture is inspired by the atmospheres of the 40s but enriched by completely contemporary metropolitan contaminations: antique wooden floors of the API company (antique Italian floors), majestic Murano glass chandeliers designed exclusively for Ricci, upholstery of the bar counter in red backlit onyx marble, white Carrara marble tables, antique mirrors on the walls, tapestries of the era, and leather perimeter sofas typical of the Parisian literary bistros.

The chef Tony Scotto, coming from the Big Apple, will delight customers with a menu of typically international mold that will range between long-aged meat - grilled, raw fish, oysters, meat and vegetarian burgers, or playing on the contaminations between ethnic influences and national symbol dishes with Mexican tacos or French berneaise entrecôte with French fries, real mac & cheese, steak tartare, jumbo shrimp cocktails, crab cakes or the great classics of the Italian tradition such as artisan cold cuts, the fried calamari alla Romana, etc. etc. All the different varieties of bread, desserts and pastries are homemade and prepared by the pastry chef, Monica Paviera.

BREAKFAST from 7 to 11 LUNCH from noon to 15 APERITIF from 18 to 21 DINNER from 20 to 23.30 LATE NIGHT up to 3 BRUNCH Saturday & Sunday from 12 to 16.30

Piazza Repubblica 27 Milan - 0266711538