Why you should experience Orange Spritz Bar in Milan, Italy.
Orange Spritz Bar is a colorful cocktail bar where Porta Venezia's after-dark culture, Filippo Bosio and Marina de Bertoldi's specialized spritz concept, Triveneto aperitivo traditions and an exuberant 1980s aesthetic converge around more than sixteen variations of Italy's famous sparkling aperitif.
Set along Via Alessandro Tadino near Corso Buenos Aires and just steps from Casa Galimberti, the cocktail bar occupies a narrow nightlife pocket of Porta Venezia where Liberty architecture, independent restaurants and late-night bars cluster behind one of Milan's busiest commercial avenues. The room stretches inward beneath small reddish lamps shaped like spritz glasses, with orange LEDs framing a large rear window, a retro counter anchoring the bar and artist-designed benches extending the deliberately saturated visual treatment. Drinkers move between tables, the bar and the street-facing dehors as brightly colored spritzes arrive in multiple formats, turning a single cocktail family into the organizing principle for an entire evening rather than one aperitivo order among many. The result is a Porta Venezia bar where concentrated color, compact proportions and an unapologetic 1980s aesthetic give the familiar spritz a dedicated theatrical home.
What you should know about Orange Spritz Bar.
Orange Spritz Bar is best known for Filippo Bosio and Marina de Bertoldi opening Milan's first dedicated spritzeria on Via Alessandro Tadino in February 2022 after Bosio used the lockdown period to convert a personal fascination with aperitivo into a new profession. Bosio traced that interest to his father, a Veneto native of Austrian ancestry with a longstanding enthusiasm for liqueurs, giving the project a direct family connection to the northeastern territory where spritz culture developed. De Bertoldi brought a fashion background and another distinctive cultural connection as the niece of designer Elio Fiorucci, whose work had helped turn saturated color, youth culture and pop imagery into an internationally recognized Milanese creative language. The founders translated those influences into a postmodern interior modeled partly on glamorous 1980s discotheques and partly on the paninari-era bars that shaped Milanese youth culture during the same decade. Artist Giò Colonna Romano designed benches for the interior, and writers Alberto Tornago and Federico Pastore created an original graffito for the exterior shutter. The opening concept concentrated on sixteen spritzes combining sparkling wine with different liqueurs and sodas, served in multiple sizes with Prosecco drawn on tap. A weekly NewSpritzFriday program became an early mechanism for expanding the repertoire, beginning with Il Calabro, made with spicy Vecchio Amaro del Capo, before successful temporary creations migrated into the longer-running selection. Vanity Fair devoted a feature to the bar in August 2022, emphasizing both its unusual concentration on spritz and its combination of paninari and discoclub references. Bosio subsequently developed a franchising concept around the concept, presenting Orange Spritz Bar as a format capable of moving into other nightlife districts and Italian cities. The Via Alessandro Tadino original remains the foundation of that project, with Bosio continuing as owner and the bar retaining the specialized concept introduced in 2022.
The spritz list begins by separating familiar northeastern forms before moving steadily toward combinations far removed from the standard orange aperitif. Il Classico joins Aperol, Prosecco and soda, Il Rosso substitutes Campari and Il Veneziano uses Select with Prosecco, soda and an olive, keeping the opening drinks close to established regional forms. Ugo introduces elderflower liqueur and mint, as Il Pirlo turns toward the Brescia combination of white wine and Campari and Milano pairs Cynar with Prosecco and soda. Color becomes more pronounced through Laguna Blu with Curaçao and lemon, Hulk with green P31 aperitivo and Mela Godo with apple liqueur and fresh apple. Capri takes Prosecco toward limoncello, Royal uses crème de cassis and Lady Violet introduces violet-flower liqueur with lime. Pinky combines passion-fruit liqueur with pink-grapefruit soda, and Bormio brings Braulio into the sparkling format. The signature cocktail branch pushes beyond spritz through Spicy Flower with dark rum, elderflower, mango and Tabasco, Deep Blue Colada with white rum, coconut and pineapple and El Diablo with tequila, crème de cassis, lime, ginger beer and fresh ginger. Orange Spritz Bar builds its drinking sequence by preserving the simple wine, bitter and soda structure at one end of the menu before progressively introducing herbal, floral, fruit, citrus and spice combinations that explain how one aperitivo template sustains an entire specialist bar.
How to fold Orange Spritz Bar into your trip.
Orange Spritz Bar works as the aperitivo anchor for a Porta Venezia itinerary tracing the district's early twentieth-century transformation from former transport infrastructure into Liberty architecture before descending beneath Piazza Oberdan into Piero Portaluppi's interwar metropolitan service complex.
Begin at Casa Galimberti, commissioned by brothers Angelo and Emilio Galimberti from Giovanni Battista Bossi and constructed between 1903 and 1905 on ground formerly occupied by the Società Anonima degli Omnibus, whose nearby facilities had supported Milan's horse-drawn public transport. The Galimbertis participated directly in the subdivision of the newly created Via Malpighi, and Bossi covered their 68-meter residential facade with figurative ceramic tiles, floral cement ornament and elaborate ironwork, with Brambilla and Pinzauti responsible for the ceramic decoration and the Arcari firm contributing the iron. Continue along Via Malpighi to Casa Guazzoni, commissioned from Bossi by master builder Giacomo Guazzoni and constructed between 1904 and 1906 on another portion of the former omnibus grounds. Tarcisio Pogliani produced models for its sculptural facade ornament, Paolo Sala contributed paintings and the entrance leads toward an unusual hexagonal staircase with cantilevered marble steps and wrought iron; conservation campaigns in 1982 and 1997 recovered further painted decoration before another facade restoration followed in 2022. Conclude at Albergo Diurno Venezia beneath Piazza Oberdan, developed between 1923 and 1926 as an 1,200-square-meter metropolitan center combining public baths with barbers, manicure stations and services for travelers and residents. Piero Portaluppi supplied much of its architecture, decoration and furnishings, the facility remained active through decades of changing metropolitan habits before closing in 2006 and FAI reopened it for special visits in 2014 before entering a stewardship agreement with Milan in 2015. The progression moves from Bossi and the Galimberti brothers converting former horse-transport ground into an exuberant Liberty residence through Guazzoni's neighboring collaboration with the same architect and culminates beneath Piazza Oberdan in Portaluppi's sophisticated response to the metropolitan life of interwar Milan.
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