By the light of Milo
Milo – Enocucina con brace is a contemporary osteria in Bari where you can feel at home among friends
Advertisement – Who is Milo? A superhero, according to Davide Milone, the Bari restaurateur who owns Milo – Enocucina con brace, the contemporary osteria at 93 Via Putignani. Milo is an overwhelming friend, according to the customers of this contemporary osteria. He is the friend who doesn’t wait for a special occasion to open that bottle of wine, the one you haven’t heard from in ages, but every time you meet, it’s as if no time has passed. Familiar like Italian cuisine but never boring, with a menu that is constantly being updated. Davide guides us through the service, holding a glass with a heart drawn on it: wine is his first love.
In fact, wine is the real narrative thread of a menu that is constantly changing, depending on the season and imagination. Natural wines paired with traditional Italian dishes, cheeses and cured meats sourced from farms throughout the country. The menu, written daily on a large wall blackboard, offers guests a map of their experience, forcing them to look around and not at their phones to follow a QR code. No special effects or exotic ingredients are used to create strange dishes, just goodness and simplicity. This mood is also reflected in the communication, handled by the Bari-based agency TalentHead. Milo is the place where ordinary evenings become memorable.
You enter Milo’s a little dishevelled, and at best you leave unbuttoned. The hospitality is informal, in a way that only we Baresi know how to calibrate, between “getting comfortable” and respecting the customer. Who may not always be right if they expect to find a place here that follows fashion trends, trends that are also profoundly transforming cities in the food sector. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that you go to dinner with Milo rather than at Milo. Because here, the host is the master of the house but also a guest who sits – ideally – at the table with his fellow diners. And by Milo’s light, you can see and feel the pleasure of being together better.
