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Where to Eat During Design Week in Milan

If you find yourself in the Sarpi Bridge area during Milan’s Design Week fringe or Fuori Salone as it’s known here, you may find lapping up all that design goodness exhausting. If so, you may well be on the lookout for a bite to eat. Well, here are a few suggestions for food in my area […]

Paolo Sarpi Pedestrianisation

The Paolo Sarpi area of central Milan has become somewhat overrun by wholesale clothing outlets run by Chinese companies and the situation has caused problems for local residents.

Pizzeria Photo Gallery

It was pizza night tonight, although it was not the standard Italian type pizza, but the ‘pizza al trancio’, which is the ‘deep pan’ version of the traditionally thin pizza. There are two pizzerias near us that do this type of pizza. One is Da Giuliano which is located at the Corso Sempione end of […]

The Dragon’s Revenge?

Anti-Chinese feeling in my area of Milan appears to be running a little higher than usual. Someone seems to be getting some kind of warped pleasure out of scribbling ‘Cinesi merda’ (‘Chinese shit’ is the translation) on the walls alongside Chinese run businesses in Via Paolo Sarpi and its immediate vicinity here in Milan. Oddly […]

Evolution – Paolo Sarpi – Milan’s Chinese Quarter

Back in May 2005, I wrote this post about the silent invasion by Chinese businesses of the area of Milan which is on my doorstep. Well, I have to say that things have changed, or rather evolved, quite considerably since I last wrote about this subject. There are still quite a number of shops selling […]

Gastronomic fair – Via Paolo Sarpi, Milan*

If you happen to be in Milan on Sunday the 14th October 2007 (date corrected,Thanks to Cath), and you happen to like fresh porcini mushrooms, truffles, Italian wine, grappa and cheese, then you may find the via Paolo Sarpi street fair fascinating. You can see where Via Paolo Sarpi is on my Platial map: just […]

Paolo Sarpi – the Chinese quarter of Milan

After the near riots in the Paolo Sarpi area of Milan dominated by Chinese wholesalers, several things have been being talked about, some new, some not so new. There is talk, again, about moving the Chinese traders out of Milan. Three locations have been proposed. First, there was an area near the site of the […]

Belated post – Sarpi street fair

Sorry I have not got round to this sooner – I’ve been busy, and when I wasn’t busy I was tired. Anyway, the Sarpi street fair here in Milan was up to its usual good standards, even if there weren’t as many stands as last year. We got some porcini mushrooms, which were promptly turned […]