Marchesi 1824

Angelo Marchesi opened his pasticceria in 1824 on Via Santa Maria alla Porta, and two centuries later, the same address still serves his descendants’ panettone. The interior hasn’t changed much either: original early 19th-century furnishings, antique cabinets, Art Deco lighting installed decades later when the style swept through Milan. The Marchesi family ran it for seven generations before Prada acquired the brand in 2014, though the flagship location kept its historic soul intact. The real draw isn’t just the sweets or the gilded nostalgia. It’s that this is where Milan’s fashion set stops between shows for a cappuccino and a maritozzo, sitting in the same velvet chairs their great-grandparents might have occupied. Some traditions refuse to modernize. This is one of them. And yes, the panettone is still made by hand.