Cast along a broad sidewalk on Piazza Risorgimento, Gold by Dolce & Gabbana is an all-day restaurant and late-night party haunt for Milan's fashion minions. Come midweek morning, a well-dressed breakfast and café crowd clogs the main interior and sidewalk terrace for fresh-baked pastries, egg dishes and the chicest cappuccino in town. Lunch and dinner ushers in a dressier restaurant scene in the main dining room with its glossy terrazzo floors and stone-clad walls framing custom furnishings, Murano glass chandeliers and period oil paintings.Â
The Food
Fine Italian dining with a bend toward Sicilian cuisine and International undertones offer starters like octopus salad with chick pea cream, beef tartare drizzled in Jerusalem artichoke cream and buffalo mozzarella fritters. Pasta course wows with sea urchin linguine, ravioli with braised duck or paccheri with mozzarella and crispy pork cheek. Mains are a hearty presentation of suckling pig blade roast, monkfish millefeuille or crispy chicken leg stuffed with scampi.
Last Word
By night, Gold brings out the Milan social scene doubling as a chic supper club scene with destination lounge privy to catwalk and movie premiere after-parties.
