Why you should experience Ceresio 7 Pools & Restaurant in Milan, Italy.
Ceresio 7 Pools & Restaurant is a polished rooftop destination where Monumentale's industrial reinvention meets the Caten brothers' fashion world, Dimore Studio interiors and twin pools suspended above Milan's evolving northern skyline.
Set along Via Ceresio near Via Bramante and just steps from the Cimitero Monumentale, the restaurant crowns a former Enel building in a district transformed by converted industrial properties and the towers rising beyond Porta Garibaldi. Storage developed the architectural project with Dean and Dan Caten, pairing broad terraces with two symmetrical pools that divide the rooftop into complementary outdoor zones. Dimore Studio founders Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran brought brass, marble, dark timber and vintage furnishings into the interior, using 1930s and 1940s references to connect the rooms with the age of the underlying building. Large windows carry views across the city into the dining room, then the terraces shift the perspective outward toward Monumentale and Porta Nuova. The result is a Monumentale rooftop whose pools, period-inflected interiors and elevated city views turn dinner into a carefully orchestrated encounter between fashion, design and Milan's changing skyline.
What you should know about Ceresio 7 Pools & Restaurant.
Ceresio 7 Pools & Restaurant is best known for the partnership that reunited four hospitality professionals from Bulgari Hotel Milano with Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared2 to create one of Milan's defining rooftop restaurant projects. Edoardo Grassi arrived at Bulgari in 2004 as food-and-beverage director and worked with Luca Pardini, Marco Civitelli and executive chef Elio Sironi; by 2010 Grassi and Pardini were searching for an independent venture of their own. A mutual connection to Dsquared2 eventually brought them to the unused rooftop of the Catens' new headquarters in 2012, where 1,300 square meters and excavations for two pools provided the setting they had been seeking, prompting Civitelli and Sironi to join the project. Ceresio 7 served its first guests on September 19, 2013 during an event for 2,000 people, beginning with the same core partnership that remained intact through its tenth anniversary. Sironi supplied unusually substantial culinary pedigree: his career had passed through Villa d'Este, Excelsior Hotel Gallia, Gualtiero Marchesi and Frédy Girardet before extended work at Hotel Pitrizza, Hotel Palace Madrid and Bulgari Hotel Milano, where he served as executive chef from 2004 until joining Ceresio 7. The bar developed its own creative lineage after Guglielmo Miriello arrived in 2017 following Dry Milano and produced the 2019 Sartorial collection, an eighteen-drink project inspired by textiles that placed cocktails such as Purple Velvet inside the restaurant's connection with fashion. Abi El Attaoui, who had entered Ceresio 7 as a waiter during its opening year and advanced through bartender, head bartender and bar supervisor roles, succeeded to bar manager in August 2021. His 2024 Anyma collection drew on Piet Mondrian across eleven drinks and pushed the bar toward ingredient extraction and closer collaboration with Sironi's kitchen, carrying the original partnership between dining and drinking into a new creative generation.
Bollito di crostacei distills Sironi's approach through shellfish and restrained preparation, leaving the principal ingredient exposed through clean cooking and concentrated marine flavor. Cacio e pepe gains bottarga and lime, placing saline depth and citrus against the pasta's pecorino-and-pepper foundation. Spaghetti with tomato sauce introduce goat cheese and lemon zest, turning another familiar Italian preparation toward acidity, creaminess and aromatic lift. The current Signature sequence develops that approach through amberjack with passion fruit, celery and radishes before lobster alla catalana brings melon and sour vegetables into the shellfish repertoire. Quarnaro spaghetti pair chervil with raw langoustine tartare, preserving temperature and textural contrast between hot pasta and uncooked crustacean. Angus fillet follows with green pepper, spinach and confit onion before a lemon cheesecake closes through rosemary, burnt meringue and sorbet, carrying Sironi's preference for recognizable Italian foundations through sharp herbal, acidic and marine accents.
How to fold Ceresio 7 Pools & Restaurant into your trip.
Ceresio 7 Pools & Restaurant works as the evening endpoint for an exploration of Monumentale and the neighboring Sempione edge through nineteenth-century funerary architecture, Milan's tram-manufacturing history and a Rationalist residential experiment born from the removal of railway infrastructure.
Begin at Cimitero Monumentale, where Carlo Maciachini won the 1863 competition for Milan's new cemetery from twenty-eight proposals and oversaw construction through its 1866 inauguration. His Central Famedio combines a Greek-cross plan, octagonal dome and a bicrome façade within an eclectic composition drawing on Gothic, Lombard Romanesque and Byzantine forms; the complex subsequently became a vast field for commissions by Milanese families, with Alessandro Manzoni among the figures honored inside the Famedio. Continue to Fabbrica del Vapore, whose industrial history began in 1899 when Antonio Carminati, Giuseppe Pozzi and Carlo Toselli established an operation devoted to railway and tram rolling stock around Via Messina. Reorganized as Società Italiana Carminati Toselli in 1907, the company reached 1,350 workers by 1919 and produced the prototype for Milan's model 1928 tram in 1928 before closing in 1935; surviving workshops later entered municipal cultural use, preserving a direct physical connection with the machines that reshaped Milanese mobility. Conclude at Casa Rustici, commissioned by Vittorio Rustici from Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni and constructed between 1933 and 1935 after the removal of railway lines around Corso Sempione released valuable land for development. Two separate residential blocks occupy the difficult trapezoidal site, linked across the street front by suspended walkways, with Rustici's private villa lifted 25 meters above ground across the upper level; the commission became the first and most experimental of the five Milan apartment buildings developed by Lingeri and Terragni during their partnership. The progression moves from Maciachini's nineteenth-century synthesis of architecture and civic commemoration through Carminati Toselli's industrial production of Milan's enduring tram type into Lingeri and Terragni's Rationalist response to land released by railway removal, tracing the architectural and technical changes that remade the districts surrounding Ceresio 7.
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