EBG Rating: 7.6/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
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Known for Aperitivo time and drinks such as Milano-Torino (Campari & Vermouth combo), but you’ll find a capable bar bar of alternatives and a few beers to choose from too.

Style/Décor:
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Corner café with large windows. Inside you’ll find a spacious one-room joint with chequered floor, dark wood chairs and marble effect table tops and framed retro artwork. Elegant but ‘worn-in’.

Atmosphere/Character:
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Café rhythms. An absence of radio or other piped-in music. Instead you’re in a place where atmosphere is created through its natural ambience. This can make it feel gossipy earlier on, refined during the newspaper/coffee hours and lively in the evenings. As you find with café bars that become evening bars, the audience evolves over the course of the day, shows its versatility, but there are times where there is a pleasant mixture too.

Amenities/Events:
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Food, snacks, newspapers, outdoor seating.

Value For Money:
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Typical for the location, better value during Aperitivo hours.

Description:
One of the few little-altered Milanese bars out there, its classical interior has hosted many a film/TV shoot over the decades. A chequered floor, dark wood chairs and marble effect table tops and framed retro artwork give La Belle Aurore a timeless feel, aided to by the absence of radio or other piped-in music. Instead you’re in a place where atmosphere is created through its natural ambience. This can make it feel gossipy earlier on, refined during the newspaper/coffee hours and lively in the evenings. As you find with café bars that become evening bars, the audience evolves over the course of the day, shows its versatility, but there are times where there is a pleasant mixture too.

Known for Aperitivo time and drinks such as Milano-Torino (Campari & Vermouth combo), but you’ll find a capable bar bar of alternatives and a few beers to choose from too.

One of those bars whose very presence appears intrinsic to a particular city.

(Added December 2025)