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Milano '36

Relatively low in alcohol, this bittersweet aperitivo has attractive almond notes. The sambuca adds well-integrated depth of flavour, rather than being...
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Simon Sedgley’s Avatar Simon Sedgley
28th June at 11:18
With the volume of Aperitivo here we didn't have high hopes, expecting excessive sweetness. But we were very pleasantly surprised. We found it restrained, elegant and yet delicious. We haven't had a bottle of Sambuca to hand since our late teens, when it was all the rage along with its cousin Ouzo. So, speculatively, we substituted Galliano L'Autentico and a dash of Absinthe.
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Andre Derailleur’s Avatar Andre Derailleur
28th June at 02:26
So it is Milano because the restaurant is Milanese, but the main ingredient (Aperol) comes from Padua near Venice.
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Mike Gibb’s Avatar Mike Gibb
27th June at 12:52
I was a bit thrown by the phrase "90th anniversary of Sant Ambroeus" until I realised this was the restaurant group, and not the eponymous Saint Ambrose (~339-397), the patron saint of Milan.
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