Sushi&Sound, Milan

Why you should experience Sushi&Sound in Milan, Italy.

Sushi&Sound is a cosmopolitan fusion restaurant where Ticinese's canal culture, Piazza XXIV Maggio's evening energy, Japanese culinary technique and an unusually deep commitment to music converge beside the Darsena.

Set along Piazza XXIV Maggio near Corso di Ticinese and just steps from the Darsena, the restaurant occupies one of southern Milan's busiest meeting points, where the historic route toward Pavia reaches the canal district and the streets split toward Naviglio Grande and Naviglio Pavese. Exposed brick, dark surfaces, contemporary artwork and warm lighting shape a dining room that moves easily from dinner into a later-night mood, with music carrying continuously through the room. Sushi arrives beside Latin American accents and hot Japanese preparations, giving the table frequent shifts between raw seafood, fried textures, grilled cooking and richer cross-cultural combinations. The result is a polished Navigli restaurant that treats dinner and music as equal parts of the evening, matching an expansive fusion kitchen to the social rhythm surrounding Piazza XXIV Maggio.

What you should know about Sushi&Sound.

Sushi&Sound is best known for expanding a Milanese sushi project into music production, publishing and a fusion kitchen now led by chef Bryan Olayres. The restaurant began in 2013 as a small takeaway beneath the emerging CityLife towers. A larger chapter arrived in 2018 with the move to Piazza XXIV Maggio, bringing the operation directly into the Navigli nightlife district. Music grew alongside the restaurant and became a permanent part of the concept through lounge, worldwide, jazz and soul selections, live DJ sets and a dedicated web radio. Chef Danny Vásquez shaped an earlier culinary period through a menu that moved Japanese cooking into cross-cultural combinations, including ramen with potato and provola, lobster and cherry tomatoes, or sea urchin and zucchini. Bryan Olayres subsequently assumed authorship of the menu and developed its present movement across Japanese and Western traditions. The musical project advanced far beyond restaurant playlists in 2025. Entrepreneur Lello Mascolo founded Sushi&Sound Records with Kdope Srl, turning the restaurant name into a Milanese house label. Its debut during Milano Music Week on November 21 joined a presentation of Benny Camaro's “Vision” with a panel devoted to emerging artists. The first limited-edition vinyl EP expanded to four tracks: “Vision” by Benny Camaro, “Majeed” by Aares, Giangi Cappai's remix of FrankO Morraghi's “Sol Alma” and “Lucky to Be Me” by Mood Collective. Sushi&Sound Magazine followed with its first issue in December 2025 as a bimonthly tabloid devoted to food, music, people and Milan. A takeaway beneath CityLife had developed into a restaurant, web radio, record label and print publication within twelve years, giving the Sound half of its name a concrete creative life beyond the dining room.

Ceviche nikkei begins the current menu with prawns marinated in lime and leche de tigre, then adds wakame, mango and chile to the citrus-driven seafood. Salmon tiradito combines raw fish with passion fruit, chile and sweet-potato chips. Picanha tacos turn toward Brazil through guacamole and chimichurri, and the Brasil roll carries the same beef into nori and rice with cream cheese, manioc and chimichurri. Burrata roll brings salmon together with burrata, basil and black salt. Sicily roll shifts the Italian connection south through tuna, red Mazara prawn, lemon zest and Bronte pistachio. Mazara roll keeps the crustacean raw above tempura prawn, mango and avocado. Wagyu roll combines beef with tomato, avocado, mustard, basil and lemon zest. Ramen wok joins red Mazara prawns with truffle, and udon with duck ragù and katsuobushi moves Japanese wheat noodles toward slow-cooked meat and smoked bonito. Churrasco with fried plantain returns the menu to South America before sake mojito connects Japanese rice alcohol with lime and mint at the bar. Olayres builds the menu through recurring crossings among Japanese technique, Italian produce and Latin American flavors, allowing individual dishes to carry the fusion concept without forcing the entire meal into one culinary tradition.

How to fold Sushi&Sound into your trip.

Sushi&Sound works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Milan's southern entrance from medieval fortification through Dominican patronage to Napoleonic ceremonial architecture around Ticinese.

Begin at Ticinese Medievale, whose earliest wooden predecessor was destroyed by Frederick Barbarossa in 1162 before Azzone Visconti rebuilt the gateway after 1329. Two brick towers flanked its stone arch, and a Gothic tabernacle attributed to Giovanni di Balduccio placed the Virgin and Child above figures including Sant'Ambrogio, San Lorenzo and Sant'Eustorgio; Camillo Boito later reshaped the structure between 1861 and 1865 through pointed lateral passages and Guelph battlements. Continue to Sant'Eustorgio, established over a late-antique Christian burial area and transferred to the Dominicans in 1220. Pigello Portinari commissioned his chapel from 1462, bringing Florentine patronage into Milan before Vincenzo Foppa covered its upper walls with frescoes between 1466 and 1468, extending the Dominican complex through one of the fifteenth century's most consequential artistic commissions in the city. Conclude at Ticinese, designed by Luigi Cagnola during French rule to commemorate Napoleon's victory at Marengo in 1800. The neoclassical gateway occupied Milan's southern approach between 1801 and 1814 under the name Porta Marengo, placing Napoleonic ceremonial architecture directly on the route that had carried travelers toward Ticinum since antiquity. The progression moves from Azzone Visconti and Giovanni di Balduccio's fortified medieval entrance through Portinari and Foppa's Dominican commission into Cagnola's Napoleonic gateway, tracing successive expressions of military power, religious patronage and ceremonial architecture around Sushi&Sound.

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