Two years ago, Erik was sent here for lunch by the designer Barnaba Fornasetti, son of the famous artist and designer, Piero Fornasetti. He arrived at the Latteria San Marco after a tour of Fornasetti’s studio and home. “It was the most splendid afternoon of my life,” Erik says. 

“I haven’t been anywhere for dinner in Milan,” Erik says. “I don’t care about dinner. But for lunch, if I had to go one place in Milan, it would be here.”

We came across a love letter to the place called ”Milano è una Latteria”  in Vanity Fair’s Italian edition, written in 2018 by the director Luca Guadagnino, of Call Me By Your Name. The name of the place, Guadagnino says, came from a sign that remains in place from the dairy that was there before. Like so many of the old trattorie that dot Milan, the food is simple and refined. Yet this is a haunt of the fashion scene, Guadagnino says, and there is an air of “kitsch” at the Latteria that evokes the 1950s ambiance that other trattorie have earned mainly by holding on so long, under their own signs. 

Here are ten photographs that @erikflatmo took during two visits to the Latteria in 2018, and in 2020 before the pandemic.