Bicocca Village — Attraction in Milan

This mall used to be a place that had never have a clear concept behind, therefore it was restructured and rethought quite many times in the recent years. With its current setting it's mainly a place where you can find: i. Food, ii. Entertainment. Let's have a look together at these two, very different but very intimately connected items. i. Food. You can find many restaurants here, both inside the main building and outside (e.g., KFC, with its strong smell of fried oil and junk food), as well as an interesting food court recently added at the ground floor. The choice is large and surely you can find what you are looking for. ii. Entertainment. The choice here is even larger. First of all, right outside the mall, there's a big garden where families brings their kids to play together. Inside, you find the gym (this is very nice) and a big center with video games, a bowling, pools and ping pong tables. These last typically are occupied by latin-american criminals. At the same level you'll find a big video lottery area. The kind of human beings you can meet there it's pretty amazing: from the old guy that smokes and keeps pressing buttons in a robot-like style, to the old lady that is wasting her pension, to couples (yes, even couples) that, clearly, enjoy spending time losing their money together. Very good for them. Additionally, a multi-sala movie theater is located at the higher floor and they have just completed a go-kart lane on the underground level. This one was still closed at the time of this review, so I cannot give you any insight on it. In general the targets of the mall are: i. workers from the neighbor companies (e.g., Pirelli is right opposite) for lunch, ii. Philipino and Latin American gangsters for spending the money they collected "somehow" playing the video games, playing pool or eating junk food at KFC (this justify why they are very ofter overweight), iii. normal people going to watch a movie. If are willing to spend a whole night out, close to the entrance located on "Chiese street", you can find until 5:00am a minivan preparing filthy sandwiches with any kind of toxic food inside. It's obvious to say that there around you'll find all kind of humanity from Perù, Chile, ... full of beer and other substances, so go there at your own risk.

Kind regards and wish you good luck, Maurizio

P.S.: at the first floor you can also find a Bitcoin ATM that actually works. So if you are looking for money laundry for what you gained selling fake passports, weapons or drugs on the dark web, this place is definitely for...

Quite small. Like, disappointingly small. This, paired with the facts that it's also very crowded (on weekends at least), and that the spaces are not very well designed either, -makes the experience of visiting not that great.

The restaurants (of which there is a decent variety) take up too much of the limited floor space (on the upper floors) and leave little space for a comfortable flow of people. There is also not that great of an offering of shops. It is mainly the restaurants, the arcade and the cinema, which is fair I guess.

The arcade (and its whole floor) is very busy and somewhat loud, which may not be the best for visitors not there for that. The cinema does offer a good selection of movies.

The outdoor spaces could've been better utilized too, there's not much on offer there.

Overall, if you're looking for a mall, for a classic mall kind of outing, this is.. one, It's not even that bad compared to other 'malls' in milan. But yeah, it's not that...

We visited the shopping mall on a rainy day to have some fun and improve our mood. We played bowling 🎳 and were very impressed. Everything was well organized: we were provided with rental shoes, each lane had balls of different weights, and there was a screen showing the players’ names and scores. Even though there were many people playing bowling, it was comfortable, and everyone enjoyed their own games without any issues.

We also played billiards 🎱. In the evening, there were quite a lot of people, but it still felt comfortable because there were plenty of tables available.

We had a great time and left very...