The cuisine and where to enjoy it

For lunches, dinners and receptions, catering is provided in twenty-two halls looking out onto the Park and onto the Second Renaissance Atrium (1200 sq m).

The City Restaurant is composed of two spacious dining rooms: the inviting and elegant Vienna Hall, with seating capacity for eighty people, and the adjacent Lisbon Hall, ideal for private lunches and dinners. Our team of Chefs, St. Catherine’s Brigade, offers the exquisite flavours of the Mediterranean in a light and varied gourmet cuisine. A superior selection of Italian and foreign wines is available from our cellars, including several labels by the glass.

Our Maître Pâtissier will be pleased to prepare a magnificent wedding cake for you.

The Borges Café is a special place for drinks, cocktails or afternoon tea. It is very popular with the artists, poets, writers and journalists who come for international conferences organized at the Villa during the year. In summer, the tables spread outside into the shady Musicians’ Square.

Beautifully restored, the Winter Garden is a new, young, informal meeting space equal in capacity (150 sq m), technical facilities and elegance to the other twenty-two halls. The position is delightful, amid the trees and natural light from the glass roof and walls. It is ideal for a lavish breakfast, a quick, light lunch, aperitifs, a buffet dinner or for cutting the cake. It is also suitable for private parties, vernissages, theme dinners, tastings or product launches.

The Mediterranean Terrace
On the roof of the Villa, between earth and sky, bordered with neo-classical statues, the view from the Mediterranean Terrace (300 sq m) will take your breath away. To the North, the Alps, and to the South the city of Milan, including the spires of its famous cathedral and golden statue of the Madonna on top. On summer evenings you can enjoy a drink, listen to good music or watch the stars through the telescope.

The Second Renaissance Atrium
Perfectly restored, this ancient courtyard (1200 sq m) is a magnificent open-air theatre. On one side it is framed by the great loggia, with its three Roman arches and the balustrade, which serves as a stage for concerts and performances, parties and gala dinners with over a thousand guests. On the other side, it is surrounded by the age-old magnolias and by the statues of Chekhov and Pushkin. By day, small tables with golden yellow umbrellas are arranged here. By night it transforms into a theatre beneath the stars, with lighting effects and lanterns along the edge of the building and luminous LEDs strewn across the paving.