Restaurant Al'Less

The poor food is getting very fashionable in the last period in Italy, but the boiled meat (in italian: the "bollito") remains one of the traditional italian plate that I really don't appreciate! I haven't been eating it since the years at the high school and the bollito has remained in the obscurity of my adolescence together with the acne and interrogation of maths.

After about ten years I wanted to try again the bollito at the restaurant Al'Less, the most famous restaurant in Milan on boiled meat. And in fact here the Gran Bollito reigns supreme in the menu and is in good company with other traditional Italian dishes: tripe, braised colt, boar Maremma, soups, ravioli in broth, testaroli. But since this dinner was meant to be a reunion with an old acquaintance (the bollito of course), I could not do the honors to the protagonist of the restaurant and taste the various cuts of meat boiled and the various accompanying sauces.  I must admit that the meat was tender and flavorful and the dish has convinced my boyfriend who, unlike me, eats bollito with pleasure. As for me, even after many years, the bollito remains one of the few dishes that do not attempt or attack my appetite. The rest is a matter of taste, the bollito: you love it or you hate it! 

But in both cases is really worth doing a lunch or dinner Al'Less, just to savor the taste of other dishes from the menu of traditional Italian dining in a greenhouse with herbs and spices, among old tables, chairs and vintage items, curtains and doilies that are very retro. Or you can come here to search for wine and culinary tours offered by the travel agency Trippa & Trips or to purchase books for flavorings and spices for cooking.

The service is a bit acrobatic, sometimes imperfect, but gentle. As the imperfect but beautiful black and white tiles of the floor, the chairs and the sofas that decorate the rooms. Imperfection that is so fashionable, that tastes as an old family history and that I do like!

Al'Less

Viale Lombardia 28, Milano (Città Studi)

Tel: 02.70.63.50.97

Open for lunch and dinner. Closed Monday evening

Prices: Great Mixed Boiled 14 € - 20 € € 14 appetizers, house wine € 12 per bottle

Dinner: € 35 average price (house wine included).

Website: http://www.alless.it/

Photo: S'Notes Al'Less and web site