Dior’s new restaurant in Milan is signed by Enrico Bartolini, the chef with 14 Michelin stars in Italy. Monsieur Dior by Enrico Bartolini sits inside the new House of Dior Milan at Via Monte Napoleone 12, which opened in the days before Milan Fashion Week: three floors by Peter Marino in a historic building, Jonathan Anderson’s collections upstairs, and a dining room that opens onto the courtyards behind the street. It serves from breakfast to the aperitivo, and dinner four nights a week. Here is what Dior has published about the room, the menu and the chef, and where the address sits on a street that has started to feed its clients.
Three floors on Via Monte Napoleone
Dior calls the House of Dior Milan “a new dream location celebrating the inspiring ties between Dior and Italy”. It occupies a historic building on Via Monte Napoleone and spans three floors, conceived by the architect Peter Marino, and it presents Jonathan Anderson’s latest collections “in a pared-down atmosphere where Dior’s signature codes blend with the spirit of Milan”. Nature is the theme. The house recalls that it was a key source of inspiration for Christian Dior, and writes that here the views “alternate between the city and the inner courtyards”. The trade press has filled in the plan: bags, accessories and menswear on the ground floor, the women’s collections on the first, private lounges and a beauty room on the second, with landscaping by Peter Wirtz, according to FashionUnited, in a shop almost three times the size of the one it replaces, according to Milano Finanza. Marino summed it up in one line quoted by the trade press: “It’s crazy to have four gardens in Milan.”
A dining room onto the courtyard
The restaurant has its own entrance at number 12 and, as Scatti di Gusto reported, a terrace in part of the palazzo’s inner courtyard. Dior describes a room designed by Marino “with a sense of openness onto the outdoors”, where “pale tones and Versailles parquet flooring create a soft atmosphere, punctuated by a floral painting by Francesco Clemente”. The menu, in the house’s words, is “conceived as a collection” and “reinterprets the emblems of Italian cuisine through Dior’s codes”. The plates follow the ateliers. A corolla, a drape, the precision of a line: that is how Dior describes the way the dishes are built, playing “with shapes, shades and volumes”. Montenapo Daily names Giuseppe Allegretta as the resident chef, with Monica Biella as general manager and Matteo Inzaina running the room.
Dior’s own page sets the day out. Breakfast is served from 10:30 to 11:30, Monday to Saturday, without a booking. Lunch runs from noon to 2:30. Afternoon tea and the aperitivo follow in the late afternoon. Dinner is served from Wednesday to Saturday, from 7 to 9 in the evening, and must be booked. The menu Dior publishes gives the prices: lunch specialities such as the Spaghetti Iconiques at 25 euros, the Filetto Monsieur Dior at 50, a five-course chef’s menu, Il Percorso dello Chef, at 150. Afternoon tea is 160 euros for two. The aperitivo is 60 a person.
Fourteen stars, from Via Tortona to San Pantaleo
Dior introduces Bartolini as “the most Michelin-starred Italian chef in the world”, and the 2026 Italian guide explains why. His restaurants hold 14 stars between them. Enrico Bartolini al Mudec, on Via Tortona, has three and is the only three-star restaurant in Milan. Glam in Venice, Villa Elena in Bergamo and Locanda Sant’Uffizio at Cioccaro each have two. Five more have one: La Trattoria at Castiglione della Pescaia, Il Poggio Rosso at Castelnuovo Berardenga, Anima in Milan, Il Fuoco Sacro at San Pantaleo in Sardinia and Bluh Furore above the fjord of Furore on the Amalfi Coast. In September the guide also added Quid, his restaurant in Rome, to its list of new entries, as we reported in our note on Michelin’s September additions. The 2027 stars will be announced on 12 November in Piacenza. Whether the inspectors reach Via Monte Napoleone this year is their decision, and Dior already knows what a first star looks like: in Paris, the Monsieur Dior restaurant at 30 Montaigne received its first at the MICHELIN Guide France and Monaco 2026 ceremony.
| Restaurant | Where | MICHELIN Guide Italia 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Enrico Bartolini al Mudec | Milan | Three stars |
| Glam Enrico Bartolini | Venice | Two stars |
| Villa Elena | Bergamo | Two stars |
| Locanda Sant’Uffizio Enrico Bartolini | Cioccaro, Piedmont | Two stars |
| La Trattoria Enrico Bartolini | Castiglione della Pescaia | One star |
| Il Poggio Rosso | Castelnuovo Berardenga | One star |
| Anima | Milan | One star |
| Il Fuoco Sacro | San Pantaleo, Sardinia | One star |
| Bluh Furore | Furore, Amalfi Coast | One star |
| Monsieur Dior by Enrico Bartolini | Milan | Opened September 2026 |
Monsieur Dior, from Avenue Montaigne to Rodeo Drive
The name travels. In Paris, Yannick Alléno directs the Monsieur Dior restaurant at 30 Montaigne, together with the pâtisserie, renamed Le Jardin, and the café. In Beverly Hills, Monsieur Dior by Dominique Crenn fills the third floor of the House of Dior at 323 North Rodeo Drive. In Saint-Tropez, the house runs a Café Dior by Mauro Colagreco on Rue François Sibilli. Milan adds an Italian chapter. Montenapo Daily describes it as the house’s first restaurant in Italy, and it is the one whose menu speaks Italian, from the spaghetti to the risotto, with Dior’s vocabulary laid over it.
A street that now serves lunch
Monsieur Dior has neighbours. At number 9, Pasticceria Marchesi, founded in Milan in 1824 and part of the Prada Group since 2014, has its shop on the same pavement. At number 2, Louis Vuitton reopened its Milan flagship in April 2025 with Da Vittorio Café Louis Vuitton and DaV by Da Vittorio Louis Vuitton. Three houses. Three tables. The street where Milan buys its clothes now serves espresso in the morning, lunch at noon and, since this month, a tasting menu at night. For a visitor, the arithmetic is simple: a table at number 12 is now as much a part of an afternoon on Via Monte Napoleone as the fitting room.
The Luxury.it perspective
A restaurant inside a fashion house used to be a café for the end of a shopping day. On Via Monte Napoleone it has become a reason to come. Dior did not open a coffee counter in Milan. It brought in the chef it calls the most Michelin-starred Italian in the world, gave him a courtyard, a Clemente painting and four dinners a week, and wrote a menu that talks about Italian cooking in the language of its ateliers. The prices tell the same story: a lunch dish at 25 euros for the passer-by, a five-course menu at 150 for the evening, and a booking required only after dark. For Bartolini, it is one more address in a network that already runs from the Mudec to San Pantaleo. For Milan, it is the clearest sign yet that the Quadrilatero wants its visitors to stay for a meal. Book dinner; walk in for breakfast.
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