Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Farmhouse café, bar and restaurant in Porta Romana, Milan
Un Posto a Milano
A Farmhouse That Refused to Die
Cascina Cuccagna is an eighteenth century farmhouse in Porta Romana that sat abandoned for years while the city grew up around it. A network of neighbours and associations fought for it, restored it, and reopened it to the public in 2012. Walk through the big gate and there are two courtyards, a lawn, fruit trees and a vegetable garden, in the middle of Milan, which feels like a clerical error in your favour.
Un Posto a Milano is the kitchen, bar and guesthouse inside. The bar opens at half past eight on weekdays and nine at weekends for breakfast: brioche, cakes and sweets, organic juices and coffee. At the weekend you can sit down and order from the full menu. Chef Nicola Cavallaro cooks Italian classics, sometimes with a twist, and the house rule is what they call chilometro vero, true kilometre, which means they know every supplier by name and will introduce you. Pizza and focaccia are made on site with organic flour. The wines come from independent growers.
This is not a brunch place for photographs of eggs. It is a place for a long morning outdoors with people who care where the flour came from. On Tuesday afternoons the farmers' market sets up in the cascina. Go then, shop, then sit down with a glass.
- Order this
- A brioche and cappuccino at the bar, A slice of the house cake, Focaccia baked in the cascina, A glass from the FIVI wine list later on
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- A weekend morning in the courtyard; Tuesday afternoon for the farmers' market
- Find it
- Via Cuccagna 2, 20135 Milano MI, Italy
- Website
- unpostoamilano.it