Walden wants to be an urban shelter in which one can escape from the chaos of the city. A place to think, read, eat, listen and reconsider everyday life. It is a bar that is named after a masterpiece of the American literature. In here the green embraces you the moment you enter and the walls are full of books and temporary exhibitions. All this in a part of Milan where you would least expect it.
Walden
Via Vetere 14
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Monday – Saturday | 9.30.00 – 24.00
Sunday | 9.30 – 23.00
The kitchen is open from 12.30 / 15.00 and 18.00 / 21.30
Coffee 1€, Cappuccino 1,30€, Lunch from 12€
3 reasons to go
when you want to feel at home even when you aren’t
for a different plate of pasta
for a break surrounded by green and books
For work I recently started to come more often in the area between the Colonne di San Lorenzo and Piazza XXIV Maggio. It is the area of the ‘movida’ Milanese, full of shops open all day and bars that get activated at night. I always considered it just one of the many neighborhoods in Milan, but know I got to know Walden, I have an extra reason to come here more often.
Tutt’altro mangiare da Walden a Milano
In the end of Via Vetere, near one of the entrances to the Parco delle Basiliche, one finds Walden. You can recognise it by the green window seals that give you already an idea of what you will find inside. The interior of the place is painted in different colours of green, completed with beautiful plants and temporary exhibitions. The walls are covered in books (on sale or to consult) that one can read in one of the comfy seats put in front of the windows, in order to make you profit as much as possible of the daylight.
A hut in the city
Not only the interior of Walden is green, also the menu that favors plant-based dishes (as they say at Walden) and on which original and abundant dishes are proposed. Walden wants to be a ‘place for friends, for the quietness, and sometimes also per solitude’. For me it is everything and it definitely is a unique place that one doesn’t find in any other corner of Milan.
All images © 2019 Inge de Boer
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