need to think twice. At the time he was based in Rome, working for the first W Hotel in Italy, but he’d always dreamed of Milan. “Tere’s so much happening there, it’s such an international place for working,” he grins. “And not just for business, but for gastronomy. I wanted to experience that fast pace.” Ten he saw the property, a 73-room hotel created in what was once the oldest seminary in Europe, right in the heart of Milan’s fashion district, and any lingering doubts disappeared. “It was beautiful; I fell in love,” he recalls. “And of


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course it was a huge opportunity for me.” Te hotel is part of the Lungarno Collection,


a set of boutique hotels solely owned by the Ferragamo family. While it is unmistakably a luxury property, it sets itself apart from other high- end hotels in Milan with its concept of ‘inclusive exclusivity’. It’s attached to a 32,000-square-foot public square surrounded by colonnades – Piazza del Quadrilatero – that locals and tourists are encouraged to explore. Tey are also welcome any time at Portrait Milano’s three bars and restaurants, the piazza-facing casual dining spot Ten Eleven, the first Beefbar in Italy, and Rumore, an American-Italian bar inspired by the architecture of the roaring 20s, which is open only from sunset. While some are drawn to the the main dishes,


like the hotel's reinvented pasta in bianco, an Italian comfort food rarely found in luxury settings, many others find the ice cream irresistible.


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Above: Cesare Murzilli is executive pastry chef at the 73-room Portrait Milano


hen the soon-to-open Portrait Milano hotel contacted pastry chef Cesare Murzilli in 2021 with a job offer, he didn’t


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