Milan’s luxury dining scene is preparing for a major reset inside one of the city’s most important hotel addresses.
Chef Niko Romito is set to open Da Niko at Bvlgari Hotel Milano on 1 September 2026, following a restyling of the hotel’s restaurant spaces.
A new chapter for Bvlgari dining
Romito’s relationship with Bvlgari hospitality began in 2017, helping shape the culinary identity of the brand’s hotels. In Milan, the new Da Niko concept will replace the previous Niko Romito restaurant format and introduce a renewed menu and design approach.
That makes this more than a name change. It is a repositioning.
Why Milan matters
Milan is not only Italy’s fashion capital. It is one of Europe’s most important cities for luxury hospitality, design, art, private events and business travel. A restaurant inside Bvlgari Hotel Milano does not serve only hotel guests. It serves an ecosystem: fashion week, Salone del Mobile, collectors, founders, editors, designers and international clients.
For that audience, hotel restaurants are no longer secondary. They are social infrastructure.
What to watch
The restyling is being handled by ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, a studio deeply connected to Milan’s design language. That gives Da Niko the possibility to become not only a restaurant, but one of the city’s most carefully staged luxury rooms.
The real question will be how Romito balances his clean, essential culinary language with the expectations of a Bvlgari setting.
Luxury.it perspective
This is one of Milan’s most important restaurant stories of 2026. It sits at the intersection of luxury hotels, Italian design, fashion-week dining and global brand hospitality.
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