Forte Garden - Milano — Restaurant in Milan

Came to Milano for the day. We did plan ahead an looked for a restaurant serving good "Crudo di Mare" (raw fish and seafood). This restaurant here does so and has good reviews, so we made a reservation a few days before.

It was a nice and sunny day and we took a table outside on the nice terrace / patio. Some nice jazz/swing music was playing from the speakers. Comfy.

It was a pretty quiet day - even though it was a saturday. Only about 3-4 more tables were taken. Surprising, since the food here was excellent.

We got served some focaccia with oil and fresh basil. Then we ordered the Langoustine carpaccio as well as the red prawn carpaccio. Also four pieces of whole langouistine and four whole red prawns - all "crudo" - raw. All dishes were of high quality. Wonderful fresh seafood. Carpaccio was very nice, served with lime and the whole prawns and langoustines were served with lemon. Great great crudo. Both the whole prawns and langoustines were so lovely, so sweet. Really enjoyable.

Really fantastic seafood crudo. After that we were pretty full, but had a serving of the "Cacio e Pepe" - a specialty. Pasta, but prepared freshly at the table in a whole, big-sized Pecorino cheese! With lots of pepper and then topped with raw shrimp. A wonderful pasta dish, first time we've had this one. Very heavy, cheesy, creamy. But wonderful.

With our meal we had a bottle of the "Dolceamore" Chardonnay from the Toscana region. A very full white wine. Went perfect with the seafood. And oh so golden in color. At 40 Euros fair priced.

The whole meal came together at around 215 Euros. A fair price for the quality. The whole langoustines and prawns were about 70 Euros - about as we expected for the size and quality.

A really enjoyable lunch, excellent crudo. Surely a place to come back to when...

I’m sad to say we were very disappointed about our experience in this restaurant. My husband made a reservation long ago to prepare for my birthday dinner. We chose this restaurant because we saw quite a lot of positive comments and it has 4.8 marks out of 5, which is quite high! But sadly to say, the whole experience was a nightmare!!

First, we waited for a long time just to make our order. The staff just ignored us.

Second, the food was terrible!! We ordered broccoli with shrimps but they cooked spinach for us. When we told the waitress that it was spinach not broccoli, the manager and the waitress insisted that it was broccoli. WTH? Broccoli has small flowers and spinach doesn’t! Even the taste is different! We are not foolish, man!

Next, we ordered carbonara with clams and it was LITERALLY TASTELESS! I think my husband even cooks better than the chef! WHAT?

The lobster noodles were ok though. That was the only thing that was ok throughout the dinner.

When we checked the bill, the staff gave us another bill which was not what we had ordered. How come? Giving your customers a correct bill is just a basic thing! I appreciated that they cancelled the carbonara and spinach for us. The food was totally unacceptable. While we were waiting for the correct bill, the table next to us had been waiting for just a dessert menu for a long time. Turned out they took the dessert menu by themselves… They also asked the waiter for the drinks that they ordered long ago. Clearly, the service was not ok.

Good luck to this restaurant. I won’t recommend...

While my daughter and I were in Milan for Fashion Week, I made lunch reservations for the two of us and a friend. I searched via Google reviews and we were all extremely pleased. In fact, it was so delicious my daughter and I went back, this time for dinner on our last night in this fabulous city. My Plymouth gin cocktail was fabulous and while I sipped on that, the server gave us a walk through tour of the fresh fish selections. I chose two langoustines to be grilled for an app and my daughter ordered the fruit salad (mango, Avocado, chopped basil with the slightest squeeze of lemon🤤). For our entree, we picked the sea bass caught locally on the Tyrrhenian Sea and it was absolutely incredible. It was a table side presentation with the fish being prepared salt encrusted. The server did the most spectacular job with deboning it, not one bone to be found. Plus, he was adorable! The fish was so unbelievably delicious. We had black truffled mashed potatoes and hericot verts as our sides and they too were delicious. We had little to no room left but just HAD to try the tiramisu. Another table side presentation and WOWZERS! It was smooth and silky and worth every calorie!Forte is deserving of a Michelin rating and in no time it will have earned it. The atmosphere is wonderful and be sure to use the restroom! The awesome decor will be sure to keep your mood happy! I highly recommend Forte and would give them eleventy million stars if that...