Ristorante la Brisa — Restaurant in Milan

This is a beautiful restaurant with a wonderful outdoor seating area - you would never guess what awaits you given its modest, narrow storefront. I ate here once about five years ago and to be honest I didn’t think the food was quite as sharp, and service definitely wasn’t. Service wasn’t poor, but it wasn’t timely and appropriately attentive either. My wife and I had several excellent dishes (her melon gazpacho and my suckling pig) but other dishes were relatively uninspired. Overall we had a fine meal and it is a wonderful restaurant, but in trying to offer accurate ratings, this was not one of our five star experiences on a two week trip...

The food was great, but the portions were pricey and way too small. I don't mind to give good money for food, but we had first second and dessert and we went out of there hungry. I found the senior people from the service amazing and really helpful and so welcoming I loved that. However, the younger people seemed a bit as they wanted to show us it is not place for us for some reason. Maybe because we didn't wear something too fancy and we as tourists just found out this place. I don't know the reason but I found it a bit pretentious and I could not relax and enjoy...

Portions were small for the price, service was inattentive and curt, my pasta came out cold (maybe because one of us was having pasta and the other person meat so the timing was off?), when I brought it to their attention they thought I was saying it was undercooked (it was cold, not hard, I have been in Italy a dozen times and love pasta al dente). No sense of apology, more like I was irritating them for asking for warm food. Overall the food was tasty but we didn’t feel welcome. If you’re going to splurge on a nice meal in Milan there are better...