Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Pastry shop and all-day breakfast in Porta Venezia, Milan
Pavé
Three Friends and a Lot of Butter
Pavé opened in 2012 on Via Felice Casati, the work of three friends who wanted to make the best breakfast possible and then, inconveniently for everyone else, did. It is a pastry shop first. Bread, sweet and savoury brioche, laminated dough, cookies, tarts with a French accent and Lombard classics, all made in their own lab from the dough to the box. Gambero Rosso has kept it among the country's best pastry shops since its first year.
Read the morning board slowly. The house brioche is made with mother yeast and Normandy butter and laminated the French way. La Paveneziana is soft and scented with citrus and Madagascar vanilla, filled with pastry cream. The Treccia al Caffè braids coffee dough around custard and chocolate. They make panettone all year, and they toast a slice and serve it with vanilla cream, which ought to be illegal before noon. For something savoury, the Eggs and Bacon Bomb stuffs a house maritozzo with scrambled egg, bacon and Fontal cheese.
Casati is the original and the one with the sofa-in-a-friend's-flat feel. There is a second shop on Via della Commenda, and two gelato counters under the same name. It is informal, it is busy, it is cheap for what it is. Go, sit wherever you can, and order one more thing than you need.
- Order this
- La Paveneziana, Treccia al Caffè, Eggs and Bacon Bomb, Panettone Toast
- The damage
- $
- Go
- Any morning from eight; savoury plates until half past three
- Find it
- Via Felice Casati 27, 20124 Milano MI, Italy
- Website
- pavemilano.com