Why you should experience Kashima Sushi Milano in Milan, Italy.
Kashima Sushi Milano is a sleek Japanese restaurant where Porta Vittoria's refined residential character meets a sushi kitchen built around raw seafood, flambé finishes and inventive combinations of truffle, burrata, mango and passion fruit.
Set along Viale Premuda near Via Archimede and just steps from Piazza Cinque Giornate, the restaurant occupies the transition between a major east-central thoroughfare and the quieter residential streets behind Corso Monforte. Dark walls, warm timber, suspended lighting and geometric decorative elements establish an intimate contemporary room whose subdued palette places vivid sushi platters at the visual center. Raw seafood, bright sauces and flame-seared finishes bring stronger contrasts to the table as the meal develops, with the compact proportions keeping preparation and service closely connected to diners. That physical restraint suits a format designed around numerous small plates arriving in succession, letting delicate crudo and richer hot preparations alternate. The result is a Porta Vittoria restaurant whose contemporary setting gives Kashima's increasingly elaborate approach to Japanese cooking a focused stage.
What you should know about Kashima Sushi Milano.
Kashima Sushi Milano is best known for Qingyou Ye's development of a Japanese restaurant conceived to push the all-you-can-eat format toward more elaborate cooking and presentation. Ye established Kashima on Viale Premuda in 2019 with a concept centered on creative plates and a design-conscious dining room, then remained the public figure associated with its first years. The kitchen quickly moved beyond conventional salmon-and-avocado combinations through tartare, flambé preparations, shellfish, truffle and composed crudo, making visual construction part of Kashima's original direction. Susanna became another recognizable figure during that chapter, leading the dining room as the restaurant developed its following through the early 2020s. A subsequent ownership transition brought Sana to the restaurant, marking a new human chapter without dismantling the Japanese-Chinese structure established during Ye's tenure. The kitchen continued developing more elaborate compositions after that change, preserving raw fish as its foundation and expanding the combinations surrounding it. Kashima's evolution consequently rests on continuity through transition: Ye's original attempt to elevate a familiar Milanese restaurant format, Susanna's long presence in the dining room and Sana's later stewardship carried the same Viale Premuda restaurant across distinct periods of its development.
Raw seafood supplies the clearest introduction through mixed sashimi, tartare and carpaccio before sauces and garnishes begin pushing the kitchen into more elaborate territory. Sea-bass carpaccio combines mango with house ponzu and passion fruit, placing citrus acidity and tropical sweetness around thinly sliced fish. Biscotto Sake Tartufo shifts sharply in texture by setting salmon tartare, truffle sauce and sliced truffle over crisp bread, bringing crunch and earthy depth into a preparation still centered on raw salmon. Tacos Sake Tartufo moves the same fish into another structure through a crisp shell, fresh cheese and truffle, and its basil counterpart adds avocado, olives, basil sauce and unagi. Sweet sashimi takes a cleaner route through salmon, mango cream and pistachio before Salmone Flambé Burrata introduces brief searing and soft dairy richness. Tuna 2.0 develops another technical contrast by marinating tuna in soy before coating it lightly with dried wakame and toasted quinoa, giving the exterior a crisp grain against the fish. Tempura of zucchini flowers filled with prawn and meat closes the movement through frying, carrying Kashima's preference for layered fillings and contrasting textures into the hot kitchen.
How to fold Kashima Sushi Milano into your trip.
Kashima Sushi Milano works as the meal anchor for an afternoon tracing Milan's struggle for independence, the rise of Liberty architecture and Piero Portaluppi's rebellious reworking of upper-bourgeois domestic life through the streets surrounding Porta Vittoria.
Begin at Cinque Giornate, where Giuseppe Grandi transformed the March 18-22, 1848 uprising against Austrian rule into a thirteen-year sculptural undertaking developed between 1882 and 1894. Five female figures personify the days of revolt around a 23-meter obelisk, with a lion and eagle extending Grandi's allegorical program; the monument rose where Porta Tosa had stood, the gate breached by Milanese audaciouss and subsequently renamed Porta Vittoria, and the fallen were transferred into the crypt beneath the completed memorial. Continue to Casa Campanini, which Alfredo Campanini designed for himself between 1904 and 1906 after Giuseppe Sommaruga's Palazzo Castiglioni had accelerated Milan's Liberty movement. Michele Vedani sculpted the female figures flanking the entrance, Alessandro Mazzucotelli executed Campanini's wrought-iron designs and the architect carried his decorative program through stained glass, floral sculpture and interior ornament, turning his own residence into an unusually complete collaboration between architecture and applied arts. Conclude at Villa Necchi Campiglio, commissioned from Piero Portaluppi in 1932 by sisters Nedda and Gigina Necchi and Gigina's husband Angelo Campiglio, heirs to industrial wealth from Pavia. Portaluppi completed the residence in 1935 with a rigorously modern conception before Tomaso Buzzi introduced a softer decorative chapter after World War II; later gifts brought the Alighiero de' Micheli collection, Claudia Gian Ferrari's twentieth-century Italian art and Guido Sforni's drawings into the house, extending a private commission into a major cultural destination. The progression moves from Grandi's sculptural commemoration of the 1848 revolt through Campanini, Vedani and Mazzucotelli's integration of Liberty architecture and craft into Portaluppi and Buzzi's successive visions for the Necchi Campiglio residence, tracing political independence, artistic collaboration and modern domestic design across eastern Central Milan.
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