Armani Turns Its Indochine Pop-Up Into a Permanent Milan Restaurant

The ground-floor café will continue under the name Armani/Caffè, with its lounge, café and outdoor terrace accessible from Via Croce Rossa. The Indochine restaurant will have an entrance on Via dei Giardini and operate for dinner, creating two distinct hospitality experiences within the same venue.

Armani says the restaurant will carry Indochine’s recognizable banana-leaf walls, floral arrangements and Franco-Vietnamese menu. Signature dishes will include spicy beef salad, salt-and-pepper shrimp and Vietnamese barbecue chicken.

Armani/Caffè will serve breakfast and lunch with Italian and Mediterranean dishes under Executive Chef Ferdinando Palomba. The partnership turns a temporary format into a lasting part of Armani’s hospitality offer.

It also divides the venue by occasion: a café experience during the day and a destination restaurant in the evening, each with its own entrance and identity. Indochine brings a New York dining concept established in 1984 to Armani’s Milan setting…