Last week I spent three days with my mom in Milan. I hadn't been to Milan since I was really young and we were visiting some family friends. In anticipation of the trip I read up on some restaurants in Milan, but most of them were quite expensive. We finally decided on Trattoria Milanese the first night. It was listed in our guidebook and wasn't far from our hotel. We didn't have a reservation and were seated at a table with an older couple. The food turned out to be good, but we still found the restaurant overpriced. I took one picture of our artichoke appetizer and after overhearing the Italian woman at our table make fun of me for taking a picture of artichokes (she probably thought I'd never seen them before) I stopped taking pictures. End of story. Next time I will ask our Milanese friends for restaurant tips.
I do, however, have a recommendation for the best cappuccino EVER, well so far. I still have many to try. We had great cappuccino twice at Sant' Ambroeus. We didn't bother sitting down and took our cappuccino standing up Italian-style. The cappuccino was perfect! So perfect that we went back two days later. But this time we also got some pastries to go with the coffee. It wasn't easy choosing them since there were so many and there weren't any labels in front of them saying what each one was. I could tell the patience of the lady behind the counter was limited so we ended up pointing to four good looking pastries in the hope that we got something tasty. Turns out we ended up with (from left to right) tiramisu, vanilla cream puff, wood strawberry and cream and a chocolate pastry with some type of red berry filling. Each one was delicious!
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