A cocktail created at Milan’s fashionable Bar Basso is turning 50, and the Instagram generation is lapping it up. We took a stool
declared in an interview that it was their favourite cocktail. The video blew up on TikTok, as these things do, “and now, here we are,” says Bar Basso’s owner, 62-year-old Maurizio Stocchetto.
The neon sign outside Bar Basso has lit up the Porta Venezia district since Mirko Stocchetto, Maurizio’s father, heard the owner was “getting on” and bought the bar in the mid-1960s. It had first opened in 1947, and most of the furniture dates back to this postwar period. Sitting on the corner of a busy road in an area known for its nightlife, gay culture and design scene, Bar Basso is largely unchanged.
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