Want to experience an authentic brasileira atmosphere? Then this secret restaurant hidden inside a gas station is for you. That’s right, you read that right. A gas station that conceals inside it a place to go for dinner. Would you ever have thought of dining at a gas station? We are not on the highway inside an autogrill but in Via Gallarate in Milan, a not very central area of the city that hides this gem that few people know about. A little place that if you don’t know it’s there you miss it, a family-run pampering frequented by Brazilian natives that is always synonymous with real, good food.
If there is one thing we love about this city, it is the fact that it never ceases to surprise and gives us goodies like this one. Between the world’s smallest bar, the restaurant where it feels like diving into the 1960s, and so many other great places to discover, this one inside a gas station was missing from the list.
What is Milan’s restaurant inside a gas station?
Don’t be fooled by appearances. It may not be one of the chicest places, however, it is worth it and its reviews are great. If only for the experience of eating Brazilian in Milan inside a gas station. We are talking about Brasita’s. Here you can breathe simple, real, authentic de Brazil air. At more than honest and affordable prices, which is rare in Milan nowadays. Ordering a lot and coming out nice and satiated you will spend around 30 euros per head which is not bad at all.
But what to eat: among the various specialties we find.
- Bolinho de bacalhau, cod fritters
- Dadinhos de tapioca, fried cubes of tapioca and cheese that are irresistible
- Pão de alho, for garlic lovers, tasty and flavorful
- Pão de quejio, morsels of bread with cheese in the dough. Soft on the inside, tasty and one pulls on the other
- And then she the queen of the place: picanha with mandioca but there are also hamburger skewers.
- All washed down with caipirinha among the best in town
Of course, there are many other specialties; these are some of the Brazilian delicacies you will find that are absolutely approved by the Brazilians themselves.
Where: 40 Gallarate Street. Open daily 18-00. Weekends 11:30-00. Closed Tuesdays.