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Thrillist New York
Emailed on: Friday April 11, 2008

Bar Milano

323 3rd Ave, at 24th; 212.683.3035

Men who brave constant danger require ever-ready support: Q provided 007 with endless gadgets, and Face Man provided the A-Team with endless, beautiful lies. Here to support your many needs, Bar Milano, open now.

From the triumvirate behind 'inoteca and a former Lupa chef, BM's a decorously elegant, Northern-Italian-focused resto that'll equip you for any mission:

Infiltrating secret volcano headquarters (Breakfast)
BM serves Milanese morning-grub (chestnut crepe w/ ricotta and honey, frittata w/ arugula and fennel) in its leather banquette-lined bar room. For entertainment, browse an antique newspaper roller-rack that in turn showcases other antiquities, like newspapers. (They also have wi-fi until noon.)
Check the breakfast menu

Elaborately tortured by nemesis (Dinner)
In the marble-walled, arch-ceiling'd dining room, BM plates up pasta-centric primi (tagliatelle alla Bolognese, tortellini in brodo) and secondi piati (branzino con lenticchi, capesante con caviale). The room-length wine cabinets hold 500+ Northern Ital. varietals -- impressive dedication to theme nearly rivaling a certain e-newsletter's tortured James Bond metaphor.
Check the dinner menu

Thrillist - Bar MilanoSabotaging orbital space laser (Cocktails)
BM pours meticulously crafted, modern'd up Italian classics, focusing on gins and fizs, e.g., The Last Word (Plymouth gin, green chartreuse VEP, luxardo maraschino liqueur, lime juice) and The Corpse Reviver #2 -- with Junipero gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blonde, and Lucid Absinthe providing hallucinatory support for an evening of your own endless, beautiful face, man.

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