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It was completely fabulous! The key feature is a continuous conveyer belt which passes every table in the restaurant. On the conveyer belt tonight… is a never ending selection of dishes. These are mainly sushi, but lots of others too – I had a small fresh fruit salad for dessert. If you see something you like the look of, just grab it as it passes and tuck in. Each dish is coloured and the different colours represent different prices. I sat at the counter, where there are two dispensers in front of each station. One each for still and sparkling water.

So, you can just grab things you want from the conveyer and top up your drink whenever necessary. When you’ve finished, the waiter comes over and counts the number of dishes for each different colour that you have on the table and marks a sheet with this information. Take the sheet to the cashier and you can pay and go!

It’s simple, unfussy and very modern. The food was good too, and I enjoyed the whole experience

It’s a floating restaurant, which adds an extra dimension to the occasion The food was good and the prices were reasonable. All in all, recommended

Malpensa airport is about 50km from the city, but it’s bigger and allegedly more relaxed

I’m pleased to report that taxi fares to and from both airports have been capped. The maximum from Linate to anywhere in the city of Milan is 25 euros, whatever the taxi meter says. For Malpensa it’s 70 euros. The caps also apply to the reverse journeys.

Malpensa has a lounge which is available before check-in. As you enter the terminal building, the lounge is on the extreme right hand side, just beyond check-in area 1.

I posted some brief details of the excellent restaurant (La Galleria) on my From the keyboard of Dr Jan blog, but here’s a photo.

Unfortunately, the flight to London Heathrow always seems to leave from one of the gates B18-B23, which means there will be a bus which takes you from the terminal building to your plane. There is another lounge though, the Sala Pergolesi, up the special escalator in the satellite building where the buses depart from.
The other problem I had was probably an issue with Alitalia. Once we arrived at Heathrow, the baggage took at least half an hour to start to appear. And this was after queuing to get through a particularly busy passport control. Once the first bag arrived, the rest came out in dribs and drabs, a few bags at a time. Anyone would think there was a single employee handling the baggage all by themselves. I seem to recall a similar thing happening on a previous journey back to Heathrow on Alitalia

We had roast dinner, which was just excellent in every respect. Starters, roast dinner and pudding cost about £45 for the two of us, including soft drinks. So, a bit pricey, but well worth it

We were so impressed that we went back today (Monday) for lunch, and again it was just excellent. Ruth’s main course was rather 3-D (it was quite tall, what with the turkey escalopes balanced atop the potatoes dauphinoise and finely chopped courgettes). I had a gorgeous salad of sun dried tomatoes and lettuce with balsamic dressing with my mushroom lasagne. Today’s bill was about £40.

All the food was delicious, the service was equally good and the dining room is a very attractive place to be, with wood panelling and a conservatory style roof.

Well worth a visit if you’re in the area