04/04/2024: Welcoming and professional.
The cuisine is excellent.
27/03/2024: LOCAL:
The new location of the restaurant is located in an area that is not exactly one of the most beautiful in Milan, we are in Bovisa, in a street where there are only homes and practically no commercial activities.
Despite this, the location literally has nothing to do with the context that surrounds it, in fact once you arrive you forget about everything around you.
The restaurant has both a super modern and refined internal part, large spaces, important materials, a touch of refined art here and there and very large windows that overlook the external part of the restaurant: a huge, well-kept garden.
A plus is certainly the private parking (free) which is located under the restaurant, while the only negative part about the restaurant itself is the not optimal acoustics, in fact you could barely hear what the waiters were telling you when they were literally at the your side.
SERVICE:
The service was very appreciable throughout the dinner.
Starting from the reception where before accompanying us to our table they took our coats.
Many here might comment with "we would just be without it in a restaurant like this", but if you read other reviews on restaurants of the same level, you will see that it is not something to be taken for granted.
During dinner the service was precise and punctual, perhaps the dishes were delivered a little too quickly, very close together.
FOOD:
We opted for the "History is us" tasting menu to actually try the classics that have made the history of Innocenti Evasioni's cuisine.
€75 per person
I must say that the menu was a bit of a roller coaster, an up and down of taste which, obviously, is personal.
After serving us a very tasty amuse bouche, some vegetable-based meatballs, the actual menu began.
Parsley root with soft carbonara, Vesuvian cherry tomatoes with basil and Sichuan pepper.
After tasting it I immediately said "there's no way they'll be able to serve anything better this evening". Literally a riot of flavors that all blended perfectly with each other.
Seafood cassoeula made with tomato paste, fish and shellfish in sauce.
Very very good, a really tasty dish. The only point I can make is that it was something that in terms of ingredients and taste I had already eaten elsewhere, perhaps in other shapes and consistencies, unlike the first one which was a unique surprise from every point of view.
Gragnano spaghetti with smoked butter, black cuttlefish sauce and bergamot.
After a very slight drop between the first and the second, here I really had a blow, the roller coaster risked crashing me to the ground. The dish was very heavy, I struggled to finish it, the spaghetti was literally flooded with this butter sauce which, once the first good bite had passed, made each subsequent bite increasingly difficult to swallow.
Black halibut fillet with cauliflower in cinnamon butter and dried plum.
A fair, linear dish, without surprises. The dried plum gave it a boost, but it was in such a small quantity that it wasn't enough to make it stand out as a dish.
Puffed barbajada, banana cake and fior di latte ice cream.
A really good dessert, which after the last two dishes you are happy that it is so tasty. Nice to look at and good to eat. At the end we went up again.
DRINK:
We chose the route of pairing glasses with the menu.
€25 per person, for 3 glasses.
Honestly a little disappointing, so much so that the three proposals were forgettable and in fact apart from the Berlucchi Extra Brut I don't remember the others.
Perhaps the cost of water in a carafe (4€) and that of coffee (3.5€) are excessive
I COUNT:
Total €211
CONCLUSION:
Overall it was a good experience and at a very fair price. For the level of cuisine offered, it is difficult to find options at similar prices in Milan. I will definitely come back to try the other tasting menus.
PS: I was clearly right about the starter
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