LaGare Rooftop Bar
A 13th-floor Milan rooftop bar in Porta Nuova, made for aperitivo, skyline views, cocktails, finger food, and DJ-led evenings.
LaGare Rooftop Bar is Milan in upward-looking mood. Set on the 13th floor in Porta Nuova, the city’s futuristic business district, it trades old-world aperitivo intimacy for skyline, glass, and the satisfying sense that the evening has found a higher gear.
It sits at LaGare Hotel and the formula is clear: drinks, finger food, new-Milan views, and a livelier terrace atmosphere on Wednesday and Friday evenings when DJs take over the soundtrack. It is not trying to be a hidden neighbourhood bar. Milan has enough excellent small rooms. Sometimes the point is height, light, and the Aperol-orange hour when office towers start looking almost romantic.
Come for aperitivo rather than a serious dinner. The pleasure is in the pre-evening looseness: a well-made cocktail, something small and salty to eat, a table with a view, and the slow transition from workday city to dressed-up Milan. Porta Nuova gives the backdrop a contemporary edge, especially if your trip has otherwise been full of palazzi, galleries and historic cafes.
This is a social address, best with friends or with someone who understands the value of a skyline selfie taken quickly and then abandoned in favour of the drink. Not subtle, perhaps. But Milan was never built on understatement alone.
