Reviews - L'Alchimia
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L'Alchimia
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What diners said about this restaurant:
Michele p. • 1 review
May 18, 2024
10/10We had a wonderful meal and experience! Our group of 6 order the tasting menu and every course was amazing. Highly recommend!! The best meal and service we’ve had in the last few weeks we’ve been traveling.
Cyril D. • 5 reviews
May 7, 2024
6.5/10Creative (kiwi in tomato) kitchen, elegant atmosphere, comfortable tables, but no explanation from staff in English language, you should guess what you are eating. That is very unrespectful when people talk to you in language that you don't understand. Wide variety of wines and great experienced Sommelier.
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Mark O. • 1 review
April 22, 2024
10/10What a way to end an exhausting Design Week. This place was intimate and elegant without being stuffy. reflected in both the food and the service. Momo and Matteo both gave an elevated charm and expertise to every course and wine selection. The kitchen put out a magical tasting menu, innovative but not too intimidating. The tasting menu is a must, and this place is a must when in Milan. Thank you!!
Thomas D. • 34 reviews
April 6, 2024
9/10Traditional food with a twist. The first courses of the degustation menu started rather average, but the turbot and everything afterwards was excellent. We had a great waiter but otherwise service was a bit stiff.
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Karl-Heinrich T. • 2 reviews
April 3, 2024
10/10A lovely place that has great people and delicious food. Worth a visit
Kristine Vu • 1 review
March 17, 2024
7/10Did the tasting menu, let them know ahead of time that we needed to sub out one of the dishes. The sub was 2 small beef ribs for 3 people! They cut one in half to share and served the other whole, which is an unfair split! Brought it up, they had nothing else. Left still hungry. Overall, good service and ambience, but food was nothing special.
Andrea P. • 1 review
March 15, 2024
8.5/10Super experience! Nice place and great food and price. Service and support staff are excellent
Yuanyuan L. • 2 reviews
March 10, 2024
10/10Excellent food & services!
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Ada W. • 1 review
February 27, 2024
10/10Excellent service
Sophie M. • 3 reviews
February 12, 2024
10/10The food at L'Alchimia was fantastic. Our waiter Mono was lovely and very attentive. The shrimp carpaccio and tagliolini with lobster were stabd out dishes for us. Absolutely recommend to anyone in Milan.
MUSTAFA k. • 1 review
February 9, 2024
8.5/10Great food and service. Pricewise quite high but we are used to with the michelin star restaurants are always like this.
Yu-Kun T. • 4 reviews
February 9, 2024
8.5/10Good food, but maybe not good enough for my expectations of Michelin star restaurant, especially after my experience of Michelin star restaurant in Roma. Rich wine collection.
Ben O. • 1 review
February 8, 2024
5.5/10Ambience was nice. Food was lacklustre. Nothing memorable and severely underseasoned. An extra pinch of salt or citrus would have gone a long way. Would've been great if the dessert moon theme tied into the other dishes too. Service was odd. They came to serve the first course and took away the bread as my partner was still taking a bite of it. They left the breadcrumbs on the table until the very end before brushing it off. We appreciated the happy birthday dessert efforts though! Weird that this has a michelin star. Would not come back. Definitely not worth 120 EUR, and would not have come back even if 20 EUR.
Erin g. • 9 reviews
January 19, 2024
10/10The rabbit wellington was exceptional. The testing menu was a delight. Service was warm yet unobtrusive. A gem of Milan cuisine.
Kevin Le • 1 review
December 26, 2023
9.5/10The whole experience at L'Alchimia was great! The staff was incredibly friendly, helpful and professional which made the dining experience seamless and very enjoyable. Moreover, the food was delicious and I was celebrate a wonderful birthday for my girlfriend, to which they provided a beautiful dessert plate.
Colin S. • 2 reviews
December 28, 2023
10/10With just one night in Milano we wanted a great dining experience and L’Alchimia surpassed our hopes The moment we walked in we were made to feel welcome. The tone of the restaurant is tastefully modern set into an old building complete with a cellar below. Service was smoothly professional and with some fare. Food wise we decided on the a la carte menu and we treated to a delightful array of Amuses All the courses were delivered with some theatre and flourish. The food itself introduced some new flavours to us as we could not have imagined what a kiwi fruit that has breed to taste like a tomato would be but it was a highlight of the meal Needless to say we enjoyed it all. The sommelier helped to match up wine by the glass perfectly and the manager and waiter guided us through the evening Part of the joy of the evening was talking to the other tables and seeing there delight also in the dining experience One night in Milano was well spent at L’Achimia
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Christy N. • 2 reviews
October 22, 2023
4.5/10My family was visiting Italy and we were not pleased with the service here. Since we were the only Asian family in that restaurant, I felt like we were treated differently. I had told the server that the wine glass was a bit dusty and requested a new one. He brought back another very dusty wine glass. During the dinner, there was a course that was supposed to be cut tableside. My siblings were in the middle of a conversation when the server started setting up tableside. I was expecting him to politely get our attention before starting his spiel. However, he just started cutting the wellington and making these elaborate hand gestures and "wooshing" sounds as he was plating the dish. I believe he was trying to get our attention, but there is a more professional way to do that. After every "woosh", he would look over at his coworkers and both parties would snicker a bit - as if to say "wow look at these Americans not paying attention to the presentation". Laughing with your coworkers while tableside is absolutely unacceptable an an establishment like this. Lastly, when it came to the last course, we had asked to take the petits fours to-go. Th waitress looked confused at this request, sneered, then said "let me check..". I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe in Italy, to-go boxes are not as common. She returned with a sad little aluminum foil container with aluminum foil on top (no actual lid) and she roughly placed it on the table. We thought that maybe since they might not have to-go boxes, she had to create one in the back. We took our sad little container and headed towards the front door. However, on the way out, we saw a table of Italians getting ready to head out. I saw their server hand them a nice paper bag (with what I assume was a to-go box) and waved them goodbye with a smile. So why did my family not deserve a to-go box? Or a to-go bag?
Lieselle B. • 1 review
November 24, 2023
10/10Did the 5 course tasting, it was delicious, creative, and filling. Our server, Momo was attentive and kind. Highly recommend!
Nestor M. • 2 reviews
November 18, 2023
10/10Love every single dish and service was top plus the wine an
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Petri V. • 1 review
November 11, 2023
5.5/10Atmosphere was nice. We selected 5 dish surprise menu + wine package. Unfortunately, we did not get the idea of dishes. The food combinations were strange. Most of them were lacking of flavours. Especially the ravioli. Sad. Beef Wellington was good. Wine package was a big disappointment. Piedmonte has a huge selection of excellent wines, but they were not present. Why the restaurant served vermouth in the package?
Edith T. • 7 reviews
October 27, 2023
9/10Good for birthday celebration
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Janet M. • 2 reviews
October 14, 2023
10/10The service was amazing. Our waiter, Momo took time to get to know us and even tailored our dining experience around what he learned about us. It was amazing!
Guy H. • 1 review
September 19, 2023
7.5/10The ambient is very beautiful, the staff was very friendly but i asked some times to refil my wine. The food was correct but not incredible.
Jason H. • 1 review
August 24, 2023
10/10Really kind staff, food was amazing with perfect wine pairing. The vermouth also matched perfectly. If you want to taste true Italian food but in a fine dining way, this is the restaurant for you.
Tara C. • 1 review
August 12, 2023
10/10Amazing restaurant, we thoroughly enjoyed our experience. Our second time in Milan and this was the best dining experience we’ve had so far. Really delicious food, amazing attention to detail. Delicious wine. Several additional “treats from the kitchen” - little dishes accompanied our dinner, great touches! Highly recommend and will be back again. Grazie mille!
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Richard H. • 64 reviews
August 12, 2023
10/10I came here 5 times in the past 2 weeks, I really like this restaurant, business lunch and evening set dinner both are great, no matter you pay 35€ for business lunch or 120€ for set dinner, both are great quality and good service. It deserves Michelin 1 star. Hope can visit here soon.
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Tsz Yan W. • 1 review
August 12, 2023
5/10Services and ernviorment were good, the dishes did't suprise me and the taste is just normal. Fish is super dry and hard
Richard H. • 64 reviews
August 11, 2023
10/10We tried their business lunch today, 35€, 2 courses, very delicious and very good wine , they have a very amazing wine cellar. Can’t wait to try their 5 courses dinner.
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Richard H. • 64 reviews
August 10, 2023
10/10Very good food and service as always.????????????
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Richard H. • 64 reviews
August 4, 2023
10/10Top quality food and service, as always!
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Richard H. • 64 reviews
August 3, 2023
10/10Very good restaurant in Milano, great food and great service, especially their wine cellar , amazing! Definitely will go back to visit again!
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Aviran S. • 1 review
July 8, 2023
6.5/10I think the food was average, I was expecting to more from 1 Michelin star restaurant. One dish was very good, it was a egg cooked with sous vide. All the rest were very average, the wine pairing was ok, only 1 good wine. Some of the dishes they had in the la carte menu looked way better (we had the tasting menu). In general, I don't thing they deserve a start.
Valentin G. • 2 reviews
July 2, 2023
3/10My wife and I were seated at 7:25. 90 minutes later, we still did not have even our first course. They did bring us lots of bread and the wine that we ordered, but no food. We started complaining, and they finally brought out the appetizers (more than one and a half hours after we sat down) apologizing to us that there was a “problem in the kitchen“. When almost 30 minutes later we did not have our next course, I looked around and realized that other tables (who were seated after us) were already well into their full dinner - indeed some of them were eating the dishes that we ordered earlier but which we still did not receive. We got fed up and almost 2 hours into this ordeal we got up and left. To their credit, they apologized profusely, and did not charge us for the wine that we drank. I saw from other reviews that this has been an ongoing problem in this restaurant, but I assumed that that was an off night. Alas, it seems like the kitchen is no longer professionally managed. All in all, our evening was ruined, and I will not give this restaurant a second chance.
Saggie L. • 1 review
June 16, 2023
9/10Great restaurant with amazing food. The food got better as the meal went along, and the staff were really friendly and personal. Would definitely recommend it for special occasions.
Daryl E. • 1 review
May 26, 2023
8/10The staff were amazing. Super attentive and very kind. Ultimately the food was disappointing. The dishes lacked flavour and nothing was impressive.
Prof. Dr. Frieder L. • 2 reviews
May 20, 2023
6/10The Restaurant offers only menues with either meat or fish. No alternatives are possible. We ordered the five course Menue Degustazione for 110 Euro which was served fast and friendly. Some of the menues were excellent and creative, but others (e.g. coniglio alla Wellington) were not so good. The restaurant has somewhat insecure and not very talkative waiters. There are only one crowded and not very clean restroom for each sex.
Wan L. • 1 review
April 29, 2023
7/10Food is not fantastic but service is good
dan lu • 1 review
April 16, 2023
10/10nice food and friendly staff
Daniel S. • 1 review
March 13, 2023
3.5/10Our table was close to the kitchen. Servers were constantly passing behind my husband’s chair. This was quite annoying. There were many free tables and nobody cared to offer us to change place. We found that the food was very ordinary for the price that we paid.
carmelo m. • 1 review
March 23, 2023
10/10We were lucky as we were given the chance to dine in the private room with look on the Kitchen. It was for a special day and indeed every single person at the Alchimia made it special. We took the chance and we tried their menu and, as expected, we enjoyed every single one of the 5 dishes. Definitely a place to try!
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