Lovers of Italian cuisine,
Did you know that Italian cuisine is famous not only for its main courses that are usually served in restaurants and pizzas in pizzerias but also for its street food? Well, it’s a “must try” when you are traveling wherever in Italy! Milan is not an exclusion.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO TRY AND WHERE?
Panzerotto – (the plural is panzerotti) is the Neapolitan name for a savory dough pouch that is filled and fried/baked, traditionally in lard (though now in oil).
📍Luini Panzerotti, Via Santa Redegonda, 16 (right next to Duomo)
Luini Panzerotti is a legendary place in the very city center of Milan where you have to try panzerotti (savory turnover with salty or sweet stuffing inside).
💶 The price is around 3 EUR / one panzerotto.
Actually, panzerotto as I mentioned above, isn’t a typical milanese pastry, but it comes from the south of country. Giuseppina Luini came to Milan from Puglia with her family in 1949 and opened the bakery in Via S. Radegonda 16. She was the first to have the idea to bring panzerotti from the south to Milan.
Actually, in the first few years, the bakery shop was focused on making bread, supplying to the most important restaurants and hotels in the city center, but then Signora Giuseppina was always interested in the traditional foods of her region. One day while going through the recipes handed down from her grandfather, she found the family recipe for panzerotti.
She began frying up a few. The Milanese initially weren’t accustomed to the taste of the panzerotto, but in just a few years, it would become a staple food item. Today you’ll find always a queue to buy the famous panzerotti of the Luini family.
It’s so tasty, so good! We took one with pesto, tomatoes, and mozzarella and another one with prosciutto cotto (ham) and mozzarella. They were melting in the mouth…
The bakery shop is so small and there are no places to sit, you take it away and eat outdoors next to the location or I advise you to walk a bit in direction of Piazza San Fedele and sit on one of the benches with a nice view of a church in front of you.
🗓️ Open hours: Monday – Saturday from 10 AM till 8 PM.
Be aware that on Sunday it’s closed.
