Inside Coraje, Lautaro Martínez and Agustina Gandolfo’s Restaurant in Milan

In Milan’s historic Brera district, where fashion and style dominate the city’s image, Argentine footballer Lautaro Martínez and Agustina Gandolfo have built a restaurant around the warmth of home.

They founded Coraje Milano in 2022, creating a space designed to connect Argentine and Italian culture through food. Gandolfo, who comes from Mendoza and trained as a nutritionist, led the restaurant’s design and day-to-day management. She shaped a modernist interior centered on a fireplace in the main dining room and developed a concept that covers breakfast, brunch and dinner.

For the menu, Gandolfo combined her nutritional expertise with the judgment of Neapolitan chef Domenico Paesano. The result brings Argentine conviviality together with traditional Mediterranean and Neapolitan flavors. The restaurant’s signature dish is a Vesuvio tart with a dulce de leche center. Toast with butter and dulce de leche pays tribute to recipes from Gandolfo’s grandmother.

The drinks list includes wines from the family’s own winery, which the Gandolfo-Martínez family opened in 2026 in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza. Prices listed by The Fork range from 12 euros for empanadas served as a starter to 26-28 euros for the Coraje risotto. A general meal or cover charge runs from 40 to 70 euros per person.

Gandolfo oversees the restaurant’s daily operation and business management, while the Brera venue has become a meeting place for diners seeking quality products in an elegant, relaxed setting with an Argentine identity.