Chiosco Mentana — Restaurant in Milan

I live around the corner from this. My balcony overlooks Santa Marta which is endless people watching and style inspo. This is a chic local aperitivo spot where depending on the night you can see many young elegant Milanese mixed with business men in suits. It sometimes feels like a thousand of people are here crowded around this chiosco and cars have a difficult time driving through since people pour out onto the streets with their spritz. If you are single GO. It is owned by the trendy Candiani denim just across the street. Which is also worth a stop in. The drinks are nothing special but the location is central yet off the...

Honestly there’s many good places in Milan to have a cocktail but this place is not one of them. We arrived bought 2 spirits for 9€ (which is not cheap price) didn’t get any aperitif to eat and they didn’t let us sit in any of the 5 empty tables saying that is reserved. So we had to drink it staying up and the drink was very cold to hold and for the time we finished our drinks nobody arrived. Not good service at all. I don’t recommend it. There’s many other good places...

Firstly i was abruptly moved to another table because my table was ,,occpuied’’ which was not the case but maybe this one is a special one so that is no problem it happens, but when I was moved the service did not come at any point, they just did not care, as I was plaguing their bar. Avoid if you can, when i asked anyone for a drink i just got smirks and they...