Ristorante Acanto — Restaurant in Milan

I brought my husband for dinner to celebrate his birthday. The food exceeded my expectations, and the friendly staff made our experience pleasant. HOWEVER, one thing about the service bothered me so much. So so much. The waiter who handed over the menu opened the menu book for us, specifically opening the “a la carte” part. While they have the tasting menu page, this waiter kindly opened the “a la carte” page and handed it over to us. He never came back to our table again. The moment it happened, I thought ‘Maybe I had to book for the tasting menu in advance to order it?’ so I asked another kind waiter who served our table. He said that of course we can have a tasting menu without a reservation so we ordered two tasting menus. I realized that the first waiter who served us the menu did it on purpose, taking for granted that we would not order the 125-165 per person tasting menu but would get single dishes only. Later I saw him serving the table next to ours, handing out menu to the people. HE OPENED THE TASTING MENU PAGE FOR THEM. Yeah, me and my husband look super young and we were dressed casually. But it is not right to treat customers based on their looks. You have to treat everyone the same, who visited the restaurant and was willing to pay and enjoy the dinner. Thanks to other waiters who were nice and friendly to us, we forgot about it and focused on our dinner. However, what has happened doesn’t...

What a culinary feast it was to dine at Acanto and as your expected from a 5 star hotel, you got the 5 star service all the way thru. Not to mention the food was astetic pleasenent to see when being served and when it was revealed /presented. Some of the dishes was a classic but you had some classic dish with a twist ,it was a unparallel sensory overload.

Located at hotel Principal du savi, the resturant is open for the public as well, and during the morning it is where the hotel serve breakfast. Our dinner reservation was a bit later in the afternoon so thankfully the resturant was not busy and loud.

The staff was brilliant and very attentive, and the bartender's knowledge of the variouse local Italian alcohol is mind-blowing. My colleague wanted to try a certain type of drink but she didn't remember the name the brand and the place where it was made, but she gave a explanation of the taste and where she think where it was approximately from. So the bartender came over and he brought the whole bar with him.

I think we might to hungry cus we ordered a bit to much but I'm glad that we tried a diverse food. The experience was a nice culinary feast with interesting and imaginative twist to some of...

My favourite dinner in Milan. High quality fine dining for a more reasonable price than many of the competing restaurants in the area. The staff was highly attentive and accommodating, but most of all, the sommelier was absolutely wonderful. She was extremely knowledgeable and had a deep understanding of Italian wines especially. I did the full set-menu with wine pairing, with all wines from different regions of Italy, pairing perfectly with each course. Only one of the pairings was a bit off for my taste, but the Somm switched it out right away and gave me a few other things to taste instead. In terms of food, the scallops were probably my favourite (very interesting with a green pea sauce that I never would have thought to put with scallops, but it worked really well). The only dish I would say was a miss was the foie gras in the shape of a caprese salad (not pictured). it was highly innovative but kind of missed the mark taste-wise. Overall, I would...