It's nearly seventy but it
doesn't show its age. Perhaps that's one reason why it's still BAGUTTA,
the trattoria of the Milan trattorias, and the restaurant of the Milan
restaurants. It's simple, genuine, intimate, homely and different and for all these
reasons the haunt of writes, painters, publishers, counturiers, top models, actors and
actresses, poets and singers, businessmen and top managers from all over the world, plus
doctors, photographers, journalist, lawyers, engineers and politicians.
To mention the names of all the people who have eaten ar eat there regulary, we'd need
more pages than there are in this little book. But why do people go and eat at the
BAGUTTA? Because in this trattoria where the first Italian literary award was
founded - today there are more than a thousand awards every year in Italy but BAGUTTA was
the first - the food is good, the atmosphere is unique and fascinating in its originality
and lastly, you feel at home there.
The way it manages to make everyone feel at home is the most striking quality of this
restaurant, founded in 1924, where Riccardo Bacchelli, attracted by the traditional bush
(the sing of a drinking - and eating - place) hung over the door to attract the passer-by
-decided to stop and have a meal. He liked what he saw and went back again and again,
every now and then taking his frieds along with him. And they, too, seeing that the food
ws really good and the bill more than reasonable, became regular customers. And so it was
than this little trattoria , opened by Alberto Pepori from Galleno near Fucecchio,
had by 1926 become a meeting place for writers, painters and journalists.
