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Bulgari Hotel

Milan, Italy [view map]

Style: Refined and prestigious
Setting: Private gardens

Tucked away on a quiet street in the city centre, Milan's Bulgari Hotel is a fashionable chocolate box of browns, blacks and whites, with an expensive, soft-minimal feel.

Need to know

Rooms: 52 rooms: 33 deluxe; seven superior; five special rooms; six suites; one Bulgari suite.
Rates: €650–€4,400, plus ten per cent VAT.
Check-out: 1pm.
Facilities: Hotel spa, extensive private gardens with meditation area, unpacking and packing services, personal shopper, hair and make-up services, valet parking.
Children: An extra bed can be provided for children under 15, free of charge.
Also: Some of the rooms have meditation corners, complete with tatami mat.

In the know

Our favourite rooms: The Bulgari suite is luxurious to the extreme, with its own front door from the lift, but at a high price. All the rooms except the four smaller rooms have teak balconies with fabulous views of either the gardens or classic Milanese villas.
Packing tips: Pack your most fashionista outfits; huge, extra-dark sunglasses.

Food & drink

Milan hotels: Bulgari Hotel, food and drink

Hotel restaurant: The very modern restaurant serves contemporary Italian food over two levels. Open 7am–11am, 12.30pm–2.30pm, and 7.30pm–11pm.
Dress code: Sophisticated and elegant.
Top table: Any on the second floor.
Last orders: 24 hour service.
Room service: Everything from contemporary Italian to Iranian caviar is available 24 hours.
Hotel bar: The oval-shaped bar serves great juices and cocktails on an outside terrace with chocolate-brown sofas and candles.

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Bulgari Hotel

7b Via Privata, Fratelli Gabba

Bulgari Hotel

Milan, Italy [view map]

Local restaurants

Cucina Economica on Via Guicciardini (+39 2 783 256) is a simple trattoria serving a few quality dishes with style (closed Wednesdays). Trattoria Trinacria on Via Savana (+39 2 423 8250) is a fantastic Sicilian restaurant that opens for dinner. La Libera on Via Palermo (+39 2 805 3603) calls itself a beer cellar but the seasonal food is delicious. (Only open for dinner.) Giulio Pane e Ojo on Via Muratori (+39 2 545 6189), is good for Roman cuisine. Gioia 69 on Via Melchiorre Gioia (+39 2 6671 0180) is a super-trendy combination of sombre Michelin-starred restaurant and black-velvet lounge bar.

More central: Chandelier on Via Broggi (+39 2 2024 0458) is a place you’ll either love or hate, with red-velvet decor, handeliers, crucifix-covered drapes and dressed-up mannequins; the food comes second but is tasty. Open for dinner, Claudio Sadler prepares seafood with a nouvelle approach at Sadler on Via Troilo (+39 2 5810 4451). Nobu on Via Pisoni (+39 2 7231 8645) does Japanese-Peruvian fusion like its global siblings, in a corner of the Armani mini-mall. Chatulle on Via Piero della Francesca (+39 2 342 008) is a sparkling-white restaurant, serving imaginative Italian cuisine. Osteria dell’Operetta on Porta Ticinese (+39 2 8940 7426) serves some of the best risotto alla Milanese in the world. The food is also recommended in Antica Trattoria della Pesa on Viale Pasubio (+39 2 655 5741). 360º on Via Tortona (+39 2 835 6706) is a great brunch stop for help-yourself salads, pasta and pudding.

Local bars

At aperitivo time, the Porta Ticinese area gets packed out; a few hours here is a quintessential Milanese experience. Roialto on Via Piero della Francesca is 700 square metres of restaurant, cocktail bar and cigar bar, with a rooftop pool. Executive Lounge on Via di Tocqueville is a candlelit Indonesian-style bar with cushions and low wooden tables,open until 02h. By the entrance to Parco Sempione on Via Luigi Camoens, Just Cavalli Café is as flamboyant and sexy as one of designer Roberto Cavalli’s clinging mini-dresses, all oriental fabrics and antelope furs, open until 02h. Gioia 69 on Via Melchiorre Gioia (+39 2 667 10180) is a chic minimalist restaurant and lounge bar with a Michelin-starred kitchen, and a lounge filled with black velvet sofas; it’s great for either dinner or a drink.

Local cafes

If you fancy a cappuccino, have a roam around the university area of Brera; there are great cafés to be found in the narrow streets.

Marchesi, Via Santa Maria alla Porta, is legendary for its coffee and cake. An institution for breakfast and aperitivi. Taveggia on Via Visconti di Modrone, appeals for its original furnishings and great panini. Cova on Via Montenapoleone is famous for its rice pudding – stop here for post-shopping star-spotting.

Nightlife

Open until 04h, Il Gattopardo Café on Via Piero della Francesca is a former church that converted in 2001. Its imposing chandelier and marble columns give it a fantastic ambience. The all-white G Lounge on Via Larga plays the best music on the nightlife scene.

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Bulgari Hotel

Milan, Italy [view map]

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Bulgari Hotel

Bulgari Hotel

Milan, Italy [view map]

Local restaurants

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Local cafes

Nightlife

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