La Colonna Trattoria milanese dal 1922

A place with an authentic italian atmosphere and delicious cuisine. We stayed in a cosy lower floor enjoying an excellent red wine and cotoletta alla milanese with crispy chips. We'll come back with a great pleasure

Such a nice restaurant! Very tasty and big portions. Got even compliment dish from chef. Service is amazing (Katja 5 stars!). She served 16 euros wine like it was 160 euros wine. Very cosy and stylish place also.

Milanese cuisine, tried veal stew with hollow on saffron rice. Very delicious, the lone swallow of the bone marrow was haven. The house wine is great

A couple of hours after making the reservation my wife and I entered the restaurant for lunch. The welcome by the owner was as follows: We entered and I said „Buongiorno“ to the owner and informed him that we had a booking for 2. The owner didn‘t say hello and pointed to the table just near the door. „There“. As there were 3 free tables for two persons more inside the restaurant, we asked: „could we please have one of the other tables at the back?“ The answer came in a very rude way. „Either you sit near the door or then you get back out on the street“. I told the owner that we were advised to come early to get a table away from the door when reserving. He said: „In here I say who sits where, and you better get lost now“. All was said in a very rude way. The seated guests looked shocked at us as. I said „thanks“ in a ironic way and fled the place. We have never experienced such a hostile and unfriendly owner of a restaurant in our whole life. n the morning when we made the booking for 2 for lunch we asked for a table away from the door. The lady told us that this wasn‘t possible because they gave the tables according to the wishes of the guests on a first come first serve basis. So we went there early… How could this happen to us? Maybe because we have light brown skin and are not white? In any case, avoid this place by any means. PS: The owner now claims that the restaurant was booked out. What a liar: we were there at 10 am to make the reservation personally, as we passed by and saw that the door was open. We were the third or fourth party in the reservation book and our reservation was welcomed by his colleague. At 12.45 when we reached, there were only 8 persons in the restaurant eating.

Food was really good and the waitress was really nice, but a man, whom I assume is the owner, didn't take the time to explain the menu as he did to other italian customers and then just rolled up his eyes when we ordered our food for takeaway (for our 3 year old baby who didn't eat because she was sleeping). I just hate rude people, if you don't want to serve food for foreigners then close your place for foreigners... I edit my comment after seeing your response. I have been learning italian 4 months ago, so I did communicate with her in italian and WITH YOU TOO. And you do not need to know any languate to UNDERSTAND physical language and how you ROLLED UP YOUR EYES when I KINDLY asked in ITALIAN, if you could put our "RIMANENZE" as you said instead of avanzi o resto del cibo, for takeaway. And we are very educated, so much that we left a 10% tip and did not said anything when you rolled up your eyes and even left us out in the rain for a few minutes before opening.

The staff were so lovely and accommodating, even with our big group. They explained everything to us and gave us great recommendations.

Starting with the appetizer-the ravioli was incredible and even the salad with the balsamic reduction was so tasty. The second dish: osso buco in Milanese risotto-OMG and sliced piedmonte beef, sliced-so tender with a salad...then homemade Tiramisu in a mason jar for dessert was the way to end the mealone of my favorite places in Milan for sure

Katie the best waitress in milan. I ve had tuna and it was very tasty and well coocked.

My wife and I had a wonderful meal here recently. We actually had antipasto. Primi Piatti and Secunda Piatti. Portions were generous but not huge. Food was superior. They really know how to cook fish here. Risotto was very good and the ravioli was top notch. The service was beyond friendly and very helpful. Prices were reasonable. If we lived in Milan we would come back often. .

The service was very good although we overheard our server making many different recommendations for wine and food than she did for us. The food was just ok. I thought the risotto Milanese was perfectly done aldente. The sea bass dinner smelled slightly fishy and the flavors didn't marry together well.

If you are in Milan? YOU MUST GO HERE!! Best in town!! And best dinner I've had on our trip to Italy! Service was outstanding as well. Cartia was our server With authentic environment!

We were in the area seeing the sites and decided to stop here based on Google reviews. We arrived on a Thursday around 12:45 without a reservation. We were seated immediately. The restaurant appears very small when you first walk in but they have a large room downstairs. When we first arrived there were a few other seated tables. At 1:00 the people started arriving in droves. All local business folks on their lunch break. We felt very lucky to have been seated so easily. They offer a special lunch time menu with very affordable pricing. We ordered off the regular menu as what we were looking for was not offered on the special lunch menu. We ordered risotto Milanese and the osso buco which came with the same risotto. We also enjoyed a beer and glass of wine. Excellent service and wonderful food. We will be in Milan for a few more days and hope to get back for dinner. P

Made a reservation about a week before arrival. At first we were a little skeptical. Not a person in site so we walked slowly and peaked in. The place was slammed so we went in. We looked around and not one empty table and then we were walked down some stairs to a cave like room...one table remaining and it was ours. We're the only non Italian diners. It was Mother's Day so the atmosphere was lively. Our waitress was charming with perfect English. She told us that she had been saving the table for us! We ordered the Cotoletta di Vitello alla Milanese with potato chips and the Pumpkin Ravioli cooked in a butter sauce wit crumbled Amaretti Biscuits and Lemon Zest. Complimentary Milanese Meatball served with pumpkin purée. The veal Milanese was cooked perfectly, tender and moist. Needed some salt but that's about it. They provided enough lemon which was nice. The pumpkin ravioli was awesome, could have been dessert. The flavors of the butter, pumpkin, amaretti and lemon really melded together. We shared each meal which made for a multi course meal. The homemade potato chips were thin as razors and were to die for and somewhat addictive. The Milanese meatball was my weak link. Ok, nice touch and thought. Would highly recommend with a reservation. Prices are in line with Milan if not a little less. Our lunch with wine and coke was right at $50 EUR. We forget you must ash for the check! No problem

Starting with the appetizer-the ravioli was incredible and even the salad with the balsamic reduction was so tasty. The second dish: osso buco in Milanese risotto-OMG and sliced piedmonte beef, sliced-so tender with a salad...then homemade Tiramisu in a mason jar for dessert was the way to end the mealone of my favorite places in Milan for sure

Excellent Milan restaurant. Great dishes. Don't miss it. We started with the shrimp risotto. The sweetest shrimps. The steak Milanese is the best I had. Enough for 2 people but I managed to eat it all. Not a tourist trap restaurant in a nice area. Enjoyed a lot.

Followed Yelp blindly based on the few reviews and so happy we did. The food was amazing from the first course to the last. Wine was priced very well and the portions were large. Service was quite excellent, food came out hot and you could taste the homemade feel of the food. Ravioli, Osso Bucco, and steak were amazing. We come from California and had a very memorable meal at La Colonna. We have been here for 3 weeks and this one tips the list. We ate upstairs in a very nice, quiet, and well lit restaurant. Highly recommended.

We had the best "polpetta alla milanese" (meatball). Not a fan of Risotto but the Risotto ala milanese was delicious. The cotoletta was also delicious. Lastlty, the velvety and sweet tiramisu was 10/10. Highly recommend.