MILAN
1930 Cocktail Bar
Among the most celebrated secret bars in the world, with its 2019 entry into the World's 50 Best Bars. For years its address remained secret, but since 2025 it has moved to the basement of MAG La Pusterla. The atmosphere has remained iconic, with great attention to detail. The 1930 À La Carte menu blends mixology and gastronomy, and every aspect-from the music to the service-makes for a unique and unforgettable experience.
MILAN
Backdoor 43
Backdoor43 - Ripa di Porta Ticinese 43 - is perhaps the smallest bar in the world with 4 square meters and up to 4 seats. Staying in this treasure chest is a unique experience - for one hour you have the space at your disposal with a dedicated bartender and choice of music and lighting. Take-away option of cocktails in paper cups designed by city artists.
MILAN
Iter
Since 2017 a landmark venue on Milan's Navigli, Via Fusetti 1, in 2025 ITER changes its format to a unique bistro, continuing to explore the world through cocktails, food and wine. With the 'From Italy to the World' concept, ITER offers an experience that celebrates Italian gastronomic traditions, yet leaves its gate open to international influences, creating the perfect harmony between conviviality and discovery.
MILAN
Tripstillery Porta Nuova
In the heart of Milan's new Portanuova skyline-located in Piazza Alvar Aalto-brings the open distillery concept to a modern, urban setting. Innovative cocktails with spirits created on site and the possibility of customizing small batches. The style is contemporary and cosmopolitan, open from morning to night.
Navigli Tripstillery
After the first location in Porta Nuova opened in 2022, Tripstillery doubles down and opens a new location in the beating heart of the Naviglio Pavese, at 9 Via Sforza. Tripstillery Navigli maintains its concept of a cocktail bar with an open distillery, offering guests a unique immersive experience: inside the venue it is possible to see the different stages of distillate production, from the maceration of herbs to the customization of the bottle. Food proposal based on raw materials directly from F.A.R.M., the farm owned on Lake Iseo.
MILAN
MAG I Navigli
Open since 2011, now an iconic venue on the Ripa di Porta Ticinese at number 43 - it is the go-to address for "drinking well" on the Navigli - The atmosphere is vintage bohemian-style store, and the cocktail menu is creative and seasonal, with some now classics such as the "Negroni del Marinaio."
MAG La Pusterla
Caffè della Pusterla, a historic Milanese eatery at 22 De Amicis Street, is transformed into MAG La Pusterla in 2020. The atmosphere is intimate and cozy, the drink list offers revisited classics and pairings with tasty dishes from the kitchen.
TREVISO
Cloakstudios - Consulting & Mixology Development
Cloakstudios is a 360° services company in the world of mixing, born from an intuition of Samuele Ambrosi and his 20 years of experience as a consultant.
Cloakstudios caters specifically to industry professionals, Bar Industry brands, beverage enthusiasts and anyone who appreciates quality cocktails. Among the various services we find strategic consultations for hospitality operators and emerging brands that want to promote new labels, training for professionals aimed at individuals, organizations and industry associations, customized Bar Catering, tastings and playful-creative team building.
Barman: SAMUELE AMBROSI
SESTO SAN GIOVANNI (MI)
Bruno Vanzan Academy
The Bruno Vanzan Academy is an evolved training school, a container of excellence able to offer, thanks to the high specialization of trainers, technology and design, the best training for mixologists, bartenders and beverage managers.
Training is a social, professional and cultural value, representing one of the fundamental aspects for the growth of each individual. This value is so important that it must be managed with the utmost responsibility by those who exercise it, which is why high goals are always set at Bruno Vanzan Academy during students' training.
MILAN
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest is one of the best-known cocktail bars in Italy and the world. Listed several times in the 50 Best Bars list, Nottingham is linked to the name of its patron, Dario Comini. Dario is one of the world's leading experts in molecular mixing and more: if a new technique is being used in the world, Dario knows about it and adopts all possible tools to amaze his clientele.
Barman: DARIO COMINI
PIACENZA
Battisti
In the heart of Piacenza's historic center is Battisti, a place for those who want to enjoy a good breakfast, a quality lunch break or an excellent aperitif, in a personal, intimate setting that mixes a vintage style with the informality of details, giving the idea of being in another city and another era.
MILAN
La Conchetta
The restaurant, simple but at the same time refined, is located in Milan on Via Conchetta, a few meters from the Naviglio Pavese canal. At Osteria Conchetta you can enjoy the most authentic and genuine dishes of traditional Milanese cuisine but also innovative proposals with refined ingredients, choices dictated by a very long experience in the field. Upon entering, you will be greeted by a relaxing and intimate atmosphere, where the sobriety of the environment and staff will make you feel at home.
CORTINA D'ALSENO (PC)
Da Giovanni
In the hills of Piacenza is the Da Giovanni restaurant, a true authority on territorial but also national cuisine, a restaurant now in its third generation that has made care in service, a refined atmosphere and the quality of its ever-evolving dishes its trademark. The Besenzoni family is a true pillar of cuisine and hospitality.
BOLOGNA
Drink Factory
Drink Factory is not only a training school for aspiring bartenders and hospitality professionals but also a place to take part in seminars chaired by the best professionals in the F&B industry, a company that provides consultancy and organizes events, a reference point for a constantly evolving world, not only in Bologna but throughout the country.
Barman: FEDERICO MASTELLARI
MILAN
Milanese Drogheria
The Drogheria Milanese is a format that was born in the city of the same name, offering a cuisine made up of small courses, in which the products used in the kitchen are the same as those sold in the store: to taste, appreciate and relive at home, this is the sense of trying the experience in Drogheria. The choice of carefully selected quality products and the sense of conviviality that one breathes in these establishments has made them a landmark of Milanese cuisine.
MILAN
Drinkable Berebeneovunque
The motto of Drinkable Berebeneovunque, a bar service company located in Milan and also operating in Rome, is: 'we put creativity in your glasses'. Drinkable specializes in consulting and implementation of services inherent to the world of mixed drinks, a young and dynamic company capable of satisfying every kind of need, even the most particular. Special parties, corporate and private open bars, drink design and brand promotion are just some of their services.
Barman: FRANCESCO PIERLUIGI
MILAN
Joe Cipolla
The Joe Cipolla restaurants in Milan have become a reference point for lovers of national cured meats, quality Italian products but above all for those who want to taste different cuts of meat at different ripening times, with uncommon origins and provenances, for convinced and curious carnivores who love deliberately and refinedly informal environments. A must in the Lombard capital, a must try!
PAVIA
Non Solo Cocktails
Non Solo Cocktails is a format created by Mattia Pastori, one of the most appreciated and competent Italian bartenders on the international scene. What Mattia offers are a series of unique, studied and customized services: construction of winning formats, company check-ups, market studies, development of operational materials, team training, manual development, assistance for photo shoots and films in the food and beverage field, drink creation and cocktail lists, bar service and much more, all suported by a long and consolidated experience.
Barman: MATTIA PASTORI
LA MADDALENA (OT)
The Duke
Known for its exclusive location in one of La Maddalena's chicest locations, The Duke is much more than just a trendy venue. It is a cocktail bar where you can enjoy twists on classic, different types of gin and tonics, great classics or more innovative proposals, in a refined setting complemented by exceptional service.
Barman: LEANDRO SERRA
MILAN
Uncle Fish
Zio Pesce is undoubtedly the perfect restaurant where you can get your seafood fix in Milan! With its menu full of raw fish, incredible variety of oysters and hot offerings from the most traditional to the most sophisticated, it will compel you to come back. The restaurant has white and blue tones, and upon entering you will feel more like you are in a seaport than in the city center, so you can enjoy the experience in three hundred and sixty degrees.