POP calls itself a transfeminist cocktail bar and means it as a description of who runs it and who it is for, not as a slogan. It is on Via Tadino, one street back from Via Lecco, in the quieter half of Porta Venezia.
It works as a bar all day rather than only at night: coffee and cake in the morning, lunch to take away, craft beer and cocktails later. The kitchen leans on producers from Lombardy and organic suppliers. Prices are kept deliberately low for the area, which is unusual this close to the centre.
The walls carry work by artists from the region, changed every few months, and the room doubles as a venue for book presentations and readings. The crowd is queer, trans and lesbian in a way the rest of the street is not.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
