The return of the "Aperitif"

There was once "the Aperitif", then it came "the Happy-Hour", now returned the aperitif fashion but attention, the meaning it is another: "Eat too much to the supper time eating and drinking trashes", or "we can’t allow to go to the restaurant, we go to make an aperitif." Jokes apart, even if is not the real aperitif, it’s a good occasion to also spend a couple of hours with friends together and to know new people when it’s happen.

The Aperitif in Milan is a rite that goes up again from the ‘20 years of last century, when it was consuetude to reunite togheter with friends friends to drink a real aperitif or a glass of good wine making new knowledges before lunch but over all before.
Once the places of the center town were the most frequented and one of these, the "Camparino" in Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery , is the progenitor of the milanese aperitif. It was really in this cafe that was born the aperitif fashion that infected some cities of Italy for then to spread in other cities of the world.

With the event of Caribbean places, the aperitif transformed him in "Happy-Hour." Goodbye to the dear and beloved Milanese aperitif to base of Campari with a sprinkle of soda to make space to delicious Caribbean cocktails and not. But "Happy Hour", for some locals, it meant to drink the same things proposed in night time but to fifty-fifty price.
As all the fashions, the "Happy Hour" word has had a decline to make place to the very beloved “Aperitif” in the language spoken by young people and less young Milaneses
With the event of the Euro and with expansive restaurants, "to go to make the aperitif" it means too, "to go to dinner with friends few spending".... in short...."to want appear rampant people and young people (like those of once)

After 19.00 many are the places of the Milan by Night, and not, offer aperitives from 8 to 16 Euro, but attention dear tourists: you will eat only and exclusively precooked and get warmed things, not to say cold, and you will drink horrendous and repugnant cocktails because watered. The choice is yours because it is as to say, "if you are of good of taste, avoid you them”. Better spending some Euro in more to go in some tavern or wine shop to taste original foods of the "Lombard kitchen". If you don't want to be fashion people, Milan still offers typical places but attention: many of them you can found out of the city.