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SonyC
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Cafe' Milano in La Paz
Hello Folks,
I am surprised not to find here on the forum any mention about the italian Restaurant Milano in La Paz and I want to share my enthusiasm about it. We
live part of the year in Todos Santos and consider ourselves spoiled by the quality of the several italian restaurants in town; however we always love
to drive to La Paz, just to visit our favourite.
The restaurant is located on Esquero, the road behind the malecon, just besides the french Bistro, and is hosted in a very nicely remodeled colonial
old building with high ceiling and old tiles that create a very romantic atmospere.
The kitchen is open on the dining room and it is always possible to see how the cooks sautee a dish or prepare fresh homemade pastas.
We tried pretty much all the items on the menu and generally speaking we could say that they have a beautiful selection of traditional italian
recipies, with a particular focus on the freshness of the ingredients that are all locally grown.
We often meet the owner Michelle here in Todos Santos in the morning and getting the frash organic arugula, or selecting lobsters with the fisherman.
Additionally to the dishes of the menu they very often have specialties, I really recommend the baked seafood spaghettis that are very often
available.
The restaurant has recently been awarded with a price a for the hygene being the first restaurant in La Paz to receive it ever, so I feel 300 %
confident on recommending it to everybody.
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Bajafun777
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Sony, thanks for the tip and if my buddy is still going to La Paz this November I will probably take the ride down with him and check this place out.
My buddy has a friend that owns a home in La Paz and they seemed very satisfied with their retirement there. Any Dean Martin music there  .
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mikimila
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Hello All! I was invited to this forum by Sony, the author of this post.
I actually own Caffe' Milano and therefore I am not going to write about it, however I am here for any additional information about us that we could
provide, or any observation that could help us to improve our service.
With the occasion I thank Sony for the beautiful description.
Bajafun777, we change our selection of music very often, however we have no Dean Martin at the present moment ...
Mikele
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Marie-Rose
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Anyone know what days they are open and hours?
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mikimila
Hello All! I was invited to this forum by Sony, the author of this post.
I actually own Caffe' Milano and therefore I am not going to write about it, however I am here for any additional information about us that we could
provide, or any observation that could help us to improve our service.
With the occasion I thank Sony for the beautiful description.
Bajafun777, we change our selection of music very often, however we have no Dean Martin at the present moment ... |
Hi Michele,
Welcome to the board, been here since forever and soon you will find out once you get in, its hard to get out.
Michele is a good friend of ours, and one of only a few restauranteurs who serves quality in town. His place is clean, decorated very nicely, and the
service is always great. The food is authentic Italian, no room for fettuccine alfredo or chicken parmigiana here, and i recommend his spinach and
pear salad, and a home made sausage that can't get more Italian unless you go back and eat in Italia. He has a very nice selection of Italian wines,
and don't forget to ask for his home made lemoncello at the end.
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Marie-Rose
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Jesse do you know the hours??? Always looking for a new place for lunch!!!
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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Bob and Susan
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welcome
nice write-up here...
http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-california-travel/baja-desti...
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Alan
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So now it looks like I will have two must go to restaurants when I get back next month and I'll even bring some Dino CD's for Michele
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Marie-Rose
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Thanks Bob and Susan. Looks fabulous!
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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bajajudy
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I have been mentioning this restaurant for years. The homemade sausage is so delicious that I have a hard time ordering anything else.
Glad to see other Nomads enjoying the place.
And Jesse, you are truly the gentleman that we all thought you were.
Posted on 12-18-2004 by me
"Once again my husband had the t-bone at Caffe Milano and although they had gone up on the price it was alot of meat and delicious. I had their
homemade Italian sausage and it was wonderful."
[Edited on 4-18-2007 by bajajudy]
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mikimila
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Thanks to all for the nice and welcoming words, and specially to Jesse, that I admire both professionally and personally, and to Sony for inviting
me here, this seems quite interesting and addicrive ... Thanks again!
Our hours are currently 13-23 Mon-Sat
Mikele
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oxxo
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Read about Cafe Milano yesterday, went there to eat last night. OUTSTANDING!
The first shock was meeting "Michelle." I was expecting some young thing like in the Beattles song. No way! Michelle is a big strapping guy. He
sat down with us for dinner and we had a nice long chat. VERY PERSONABLE. He is Italian, originally from Sardinia. His Italian name is a derivative
of Michael. He said most people in La Paz call him Miguel.
The second shock was meeting Miguel's wife. She is a most charming, interesting, and friendly person. They are an international family and therein
lies the surprise. I will leave it for you to discover.
The third shock was the quality of the food. Why go to Italy when you can have the real thing in La Paz? We had Bellinis and these toasty things for
appetizers. Then we had Tuna appetizers sliced parchment thin with garlic and marinade over the top. Then we shared the lettuce and pear salad with
caramelized nuts - more than enough for two. For entrees we shared the homemade Italian sausage and Espegettis Carbonera. All this was washed down
with a very mellow red wine from Chile that Miguel personally selected for us. When we thought we could hold no more, Limoncillo and Cafe liqueurs
magically appeared at the table. We literally waddled out of the place. Miguel's motto must be Mangia, Mangia!
Appetizers run 50p to 100p. Salads run 75p to 100p (these could easily be a meal in themselves). Pasta runs 80p to 100p (all homemade and cooked
perfectly al dente). And entrees start at around 100p. For example the homemade sausage - a recipe from Miguel's mother who lives in La Paz too- was
110p.
About 6 months ago there was a thread that said there were no good restaurants in La Paz. With restaurants like Cafe Milano, Tres Virgenes, Gula, La
Boeheme, and Las Fuentes ice cream store, I have to heartily disagree. LP has outstanding restaurants!
Do yourself a favor, try Cafe Milano. Like Jesse and Aldo, Miguel and his family are the supreme hosts. It is a dining experience!
Having lived most of my life in California's wine country, I have always been a snob about Mexican wines. However, I had an interesting talk with
Miguel about Mexican wines and I am going to give some specific ones a try. I hope he will jump in here and share with the Board what he told me.
Suerte Miguel! we will be back - often.
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mikimila
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Hello all, just a short note to inform all the friends from the forum that Caffe' Milano will be closed for a while during this summer season for
maintenance and remodeling. We will post before reopening. Arrivederci.
Michele & Caffe' Milano
Mikele
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Boshvideo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
| Quote: | Originally posted by mikimila
Hello All! I was invited to this forum by Sony, the author of this post.
............. and don't forget to ask for his home made lemoncello at the end. |
Home made lemoncello is a thing of beauty. |
It\'s easier to get forgiveness then permission.
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yates
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Does anyone know if Cafe Milano has reopened? I was in La Paz at the end of October and they were still remodeling. I hope to be back in La Paz soon
and would sure love to try that homemade limoncello!
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JESSE
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They are not open yet, will ask Michele whats going on as soon as i see him.
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mikimila
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Hello forum,
we are getting ready to reopen, hopefully next week. I will post again soon with more info, and details about our new menu.
Ciao
Michele
Mikele
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bajajazz
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Baja's "Italian" restaurants
Being from San Francisco and married to a dago whose family originally hailed from Pompei, I'm admittedly a bit of a snob when it comes to Italian
cooking. We twice tried the branch of Milano when it was at the Mall and it was ghastly, pastas like cardboard and sparsely sauced with something so
non-descript it doesn't bear remembering. Because of the horrible food served there we've never tried the restaurant at its incarnation downtown on
Esquero. If I am confusing ownership responsibility between these two places I sincerely apologize.
My main criticism of Italian food as it's prepared in La Paz however, at the Milano or anywhere else, is that there's too much concentration on pastas
and not enough on other Italian dishes. I'd kill for a good veal dish -- veal with a lemon sauce, or a good veal parmigian served with a side of
pasta and followed by a small garden salad or preceded by a cup of decent minestrone.
It's no fun for us to walk into a restaurant and waddle out, we regard food as something to sustain life, not end it prematurely. What we'd like to
see is a reasonably sized and reasonably priced Italian meal that is well-prepared but simple, one in which pasta is not the entree item. We long ago
wearied of dinner at La Pazta because their best non-pasta entrees were dropped from the menu -- and also because the prissy attitudes of the
wait-staff got to be a bit much.
By the way -- and off-subject -- wouldn't it improve this board if the most recent posts were put at the top of the thread, rather than at the bottom?
It's time-consuming to read a half-dozen posts before realizing they were written six months or a year ago. 
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Paula
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Bajajazz,
Do you read your books starting with the last page?
The date of post is given at the top of each message, so you can see if it is "old". If you prefer to read only the recent stuff, you can click on
the arrow on the right hand column of the index to go straight to the latest post. Or you can click on the thread title and use the 3 arrow icon
located between the logo box and the ad box on the right-hand side. The most coherent relevant posts are usually made by people who have read the
whole thread before replying.
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paula
Bajajazz,
The most coherent relevant posts are usually made by people who have read the whole thread before replying. |
Paula,
However,if you have limited reading skills ( and some posts go on forever, like thread hijacking )by the time you get to the last post, you may have forgotten what the subject is, considering the usual immaterial
bantering .
Your signature applies here very well.
And..back to Milano, next time we're in La Paz, have to try it again. Last time, spring last year, we weren't to impressed, but, heh, could have been
an off day for the cook.
Happens.
[Edited on 12-13-2007 by vandenberg]
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