Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Fine dining restaurant in Lorenteggio (southwest Milan), Milan
Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia
The Trattoria That Grew Up
In 1962 two Tuscan cooks, Aimo Moroni and Nadia Giuntoli, opened a trattoria on Via Montecuccoli in Milan's southwestern outskirts and cooked the food of home. Over the next decades that small room became one of the places that changed what Italian fine dining could mean. In 2012 they handed it on to two chefs, Alessandro Negrini from the north and Fabio Pisani from the south. More than sixty years, same street, still far from the postcard Milan.
The pair run two tasting menus side by side, one each, both €260 a head and served to the whole table. Negrini's bows to Milan with tortelli filled with Fassona ossobuco and marrow in a saffron reduction. Pisani's heads south with spaghettoni, Polignano cuttlefish and anchovy colatura. The real move is the short list called Piatti del Cuore, the dishes of the heart. Spaghettoni of Benedetto Cavalieri durum wheat with fresh spring onion, chili, a thread of olive oil and Ligurian basil. Pasta, onion, heat. Simple food is where a kitchen has nowhere to hide, and this one does not need to.
It holds a Michelin star and it is out of the way. That is part of the charm. Book a dinner, take a cab, and order the spaghettoni whatever else ends up on the table. Then tip your hat to two cooks who opened a neighborhood trattoria and built a reference.
- Order this
- Spaghettoni with fresh spring onion and chili from the Piatti del Cuore, Tortelli of Fassona ossobuco with saffron reduction, One of the two tasting menus, for the whole table
- The damage
- $$$$
- Go
- Monday to Saturday, dinner from 19.00
- Find it
- Via Privata Raimondo Montecuccoli 6, 20147 Milano
- Website
- aimoenadia.com