Why you should experience ToscaNino Milano in Milan, Italy.
ToscaNino Milano is a homespun Tuscan restaurant where Porta Venezia's cosmopolitan dining culture, Simone Arnetoli and Laura Tosetti's Florentine roots, a restaurant-bottega concept involving more than 150 Tuscan producers and a contemporary interpretation of the regional farmhouse converge at the corner of Via Melzo and Via Lambro.
Set along Via Melzo near Via Lambro and just steps from Casa Galimberti, ToscaNino occupies one of Porta Venezia's richest architectural pockets, where Liberty façades, independent restaurants, compact residential blocks and the neighborhood's evening traffic gather along the streets between Corso Buenos Aires and the former bastions. Cypress green, Siena earth and maize-yellow tones meet dark timber, Tuscan chairs, large glass cases, Carrara marble, Montelupo ceramics, Empoli glass and lighting assembled from antique objects, developing the founders' idea of a Florentine home across the dining room. A small lounge introduces the restaurant before the room opens toward its gastronomia, bakery, wine collection and cocktail counter, letting dinner unfold among objects and foodstuffs drawn from the same regional concept as the cooking. The result is a characterful Porta Venezia restaurant whose Tuscan concept extends beyond recipes into furniture, craft, bread, wine and domestic atmosphere, giving the Milan address the coherence of a fully conceived regional house.
What you should know about ToscaNino Milano.
ToscaNino Milano is best known for turning Simone Arnetoli and Laura Tosetti's idea of a contemporary Tuscan home into the first ToscaNino restaurant, launched in Milan in October 2017 after Arnetoli had accumulated more than twenty years in catering and restaurants. Arnetoli traces the project's genesis to New York, where seeing the words “Pizzeria Toscana” convinced him that Tuscany itself carried international cultural power; his earlier career had begun with the Galateo catering business twenty-five years before his 2025 account of ToscaNino's development. Laura Tosetti, his wife and business partner, shaped the visual concept drawing by drawing, working with ABA Arredamenti on a project that eventually involved more than 150 Tuscan producers across food, craft and furniture. The Milan opening combined restaurant, bakery, gastronomia, wine shop, cocktail bar and retail bottega under one concept, with Tuscan production extending into the furnishings and tableware. Bartender Danny Del Monaco, Italian champion in 2017, worked with a group of Tuscan bartenders on a dedicated cocktail selection centered on spirits and ingredients from the region. Expansion followed quickly: ToscaNino partnered with Rinascente in Florence in February 2019, then opened a bistro and restaurant-bottega at The Mall Firenze in July of that year. Forbes Italia included ToscaNino in its 2021 100 Eccellenze Italiane special, by which point the original Milan experiment had developed into a multi-address Tuscan hospitality project.
Sbirulino provides the clearest culinary signature, a slow-leavened bread prepared throughout the day with organic Tuscan grain flours, Tuscan extra-virgin olive oil, sea salt and sourdough renewed on site. It accompanies boards named for figures including Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Vasari and Botticelli, pairing cured meats and cheeses with combinations such as Prato mortadella, capocollo, finocchiona, soprassata, aged pecorino, wild-boar salami and Chianti-wine salami. Pappa al pomodoro and ribollita establish the soup tradition, and fresh pasta reaches Lunigiana through testaroli with pesto and Florence through pici, alongside seasonal filled pastas and ragù. Bistecca alla Fiorentina shifts the meal toward the grill, with Chianina appearing among the beef selections and slower cooking represented by beef cheek braised in Rosso di Montalcino. Brigidini di Lamporecchio, torta della nonna and the house tiramisù carry the sequence into dessert, and 120 wines extend the regional focus into the cellar.
How to fold ToscaNino Milano into your trip.
ToscaNino Milano works as the dining anchor for a Porta Venezia route linking Giovanni Battista Bossi's exuberant Liberty architecture, Giovanni Ceruti's purpose-built natural-history museum and Piero Portaluppi's interwar residence for the Necchi Campiglio family.
Begin at Casa Galimberti, commissioned by brothers Angelo and Emilio Galimberti from Giovanni Battista Bossi and constructed between 1902 and 1905 on land opened after the demolition of the Lazzaretto. Bossi covered its 68-meter street front with figurative ceramic tiles, floral cement decoration and wrought iron; Arcari executed the ironwork, and Brambilla and Pinzauti produced the ceramic decoration. The Galimberti brothers had participated in developing the new Via Malpighi district, making the building both a private commission and a defining artifact of Porta Venezia's early-twentieth-century expansion. Continue to Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, whose present home was purpose-built between 1888 and 1893 by Giovanni Ceruti after earlier periods in Palazzo Dugnani and the former convent on Via Santa Marta. Ceruti had already designed the 1881 Esposizione Nazionale in the surrounding gardens; after its temporary pavilions disappeared, his neo-Gothic museum became part of the site's permanent reconstruction. Its ring plan drew directly from Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum, and its architectural conception also responded to London's Natural History Museum, placing Milan within the international museum-building culture of the late nineteenth century. Conclude at Villa Necchi Campiglio, designed by Piero Portaluppi for sisters Nedda and Gigina Necchi and Gigina's husband Angelo Campiglio and constructed between 1932 and 1935. Portaluppi integrated the residence, garden, greenhouse, garage, tennis court and heated swimming pool into a technologically advanced urban villa; Tomaso Buzzi later altered portions of the interiors. Gigina and Nedda donated the property to FAI in 2001, and collections associated with Claudia Gian Ferrari, Alighiero and Emilietta de' Micheli and Guido Sforni subsequently brought works by artists including Tiepolo, Canaletto, Sironi, De Chirico, Picasso, Fontana and Modigliani into the house museum. The progression moves from Bossi's ceramic-clad Liberty residence through Ceruti's nineteenth-century museum architecture into Portaluppi's interwar domestic modernity, compressing three decisive periods of Milanese design into the streets surrounding Porta Venezia.
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