Miami’s pasta splits into three kinds of rooms: handmade pasta bars like PASTA and Otto & Pepe, neighborhood red-sauce spots like Macchialina and Cafe Prima Pasta, and dressed-up dining rooms in the Design District, Coral Gables and on the bay. Below are 20 places we’d send a friend to, sorted by what you need, with the dish to order at each.
National Pasta Day is October 17, but this list holds up any night of the week.
By neighborhood
Wynwood: PASTA, Otto & Pepe, DōmaDesign District: Mother Wolf, Torno Subito, Contessa, SofiaCoral Gables: Luca Osteria, Zucca, Beauty & The ButcherMiami Beach: Macchialina, Pane e Vino, Cafe Prima PastaBrickell: Felice, SeiaEverywhere else: Boia De (Buena Vista), Mano Libera (South Miami), Battubelin (Upper East Side), Casadonna (Edgewater), Petralunga (North Bay Village)Watch it get made
Three kitchens put the pasta-making in front of you: a counter, a window and an open pasta bar.
PASTA, Wynwood
Fresh pasta from a Lima chef couple, rolled each morning in a window-facing kitchen. Order the pici cacio e pepe or the pappardelle with braised beef cheek ragù. Reservations are on Resy.
Otto & Pepe, Wynwood
Miami’s first pasta bar, with an open pasta counter, a wine cellar and a garden patio. Order the orecchiette alla Norma or the cacio e pepe, and pair it with a natural wine from the enoteca. Chef Viviana Varese, who ran Michelin-starred restaurants in Milan and Sicily, wrote the menu.
Pane e Vino, Miami Beach
A tiny South Beach room where the pasta gets made in the front window. Order the spaghetti al pomodoro or the pappardelle with lamb ragù. It sits at 1450 Washington Avenue and seats few, so reserve.
Red sauce and neighborhood classics
Book these three when you want a red-sauce menu and a room that feels like a neighborhood.
Macchialina, Miami Beach
A South Beach staple for more than a decade, with housemade pasta and an almost all-Italian wine list. Order the cavatelli with baby meatballs, porchetta and pecorino. It sits at 820 Alton Road, on the residential side of South Beach.
Cafe Prima Pasta, North Beach
A family-run red-sauce room on 71st Street, open since 1993. Order the fiocchi rapera: pear and cheese pasta in a cream truffle sauce with toasted prosciutto. The eggplant parmigiana and the meatballs with ricotta are the other dishes it’s known for.
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Family-owned Italian staple in Miami Beach, serving classic hand-rolled pasta and traditional recipes in an intimate, long-standing neighborhood setting.
Battubelin, Upper East Side
An Upper East Side Italian with a wood-fired oven and fresh pasta you pair with your choice of sauce. Order the gnocchi, which reviewers single out, or the risotto. It’s at 749 NE 79th Street, with a covered patio.
Date night
These seven suit a booked table and a slower dinner.
Boia De, Buena Vista
A Michelin-starred room with about 27 seats behind a neon exclamation point in a Buena Vista strip mall. Order the tagliolini nero with king crab and vin jaune, served cold, if it’s on the menu. Tables book quickly.
Mano Libera, South Miami
Neapolitan cooking in South Miami, with all pasta made by hand daily by Naples-born chef Marco Giugliano. Order the gnocchi in Genovese reduction or the truffle pasta. Michelin lists it as a recommended restaurant, and portions run small, so plan on a second course.
Luca Osteria, Coral Gables
Giorgio Rapicavoli’s osteria on Giralda Plaza, with housemade pasta and a Miami edge. Order the tagliatelle al limone with Parmigiano and a whole lemon. Ask for a table outside on the plaza.
Felice, Brickell
A Tuscan menu in Brickell built on homemade egg pasta and dried pasta from Italian makers. Order the spaghettino Felicetti alla diavola, which gets its heat from crusco pepper and peperoncino, or the mafalde al limone. Founder Jacopo Giustiniani grew up in a winemaking family, so give the Italian wine list real attention.
Zucca, Coral Gables
Classic regional Italian inside the Hotel St. Michel, in one of the quieter dining rooms in the city. Order the paccheri with lobster and cherry tomatoes, or the pumpkin ravioli with butter and sage that the restaurant is named for. It’s at 162 Alcazar Avenue.
Dōma, Wynwood
Southern Italian cooking with housemade pasta, and a patio that feels calmer than most of Wynwood. Order the spaghetti alle vongole or the bucatini cacio e pepe with Sichuan black pepper. It’s at 35 NE 26th Street and has a private dining room for up to 12.
Beauty & The Butcher, Coral Gables
A Grove Bay Hospitality dining room with forest green leather booths and a bar that shows off its dry-aged meat. Order the dry-aged bolognese: hand-cut mafalde with pecorino, truffle bread crumbs and basil. It comes with focaccia for the sauce.
The Design District rooms
Four Italian dining rooms sit within a few blocks of each other here, and each makes a different pitch.
Mother Wolf, Design District
Evan Funke’s Roman pasta, with a glass-walled pasta lab in the dining room so you can watch the dough get rolled. Order the rigatoni all’amatriciana, the tonnarelli cacio e pepe or the spaghetti alle vongole. Reservations are hard to get, so book early.
Torno Subito, Design District
Massimo Bottura’s only Miami restaurant, now on the ground floor of The Moore. Order the bucatini cacio e pepe with candied Florida citrus zest, or the tortellini. The pasta tasting menu is the move for a first visit.
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Massimo Bottura’s only U.S. restaurant brings playful, story-driven Italian cuisine to The Moore, in the Miami Design District.
Contessa, Design District
Major Food Group’s Northern Italian trattoria, across two floors with emerald drapery and pink plaster walls. Order the fusilli genovese, made in house with stracciatella pesto, or the spicy lobster capellini. It serves lunch, so it works as a shopping stop too.
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Northern Italian dining inspired by Lake Como, set inside a grand Design District restaurant with marble, teak and skyline views.
Sofia, Design District
A pink-marble Toronto import on Palm Court, with DJs and live music. Order the spicy rigatoni alla vodka or the cacio e pepe al tartufo. Sit in the courtyard on a cool night.
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Design District’s pink-umbrella Italian playground in Palm Court. Refined Italian, see-and-be-seen energy.
Water and views
Three places where the view is part of the reason to book.
Casadonna, Edgewater
Riviera Italian in the restored Miami Woman’s Club, with a terrace across Biscayne Bay from Miami Beach. Order the mafaldine astice with Maine lobster in vodka sauce, the lumache arrabbiata or the linguini vongole. Book the terrace around sunset.
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Riviera Italian in the restored Woman’s Club, with the best waterfront terrace in Edgewater. Go at sunset. Sit outside.
Petralunga, North Bay Village
A bayfront Italian spot with a patio over the marina and a pizza-first menu. Order the pasta with the seafood of the day, and ask about the Monday pasta discount. Boats under 45 feet can park free, and you can call to reserve a space.
Seia, Brickell
Italian on the 54th floor of 830 Brickell, with Biscayne Bay and the skyline outside every window. Order the linguine alle vongole with Manila clams. It opened in March 2026 and serves lunch Monday through Friday.
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rooftop new-Miami group-friendly
Contemporary Italian dining 54 floors above Brickell, with house-made pasta, Italian classics and a 180-degree terrace overlooking Biscayne Bay.
FAQWhere can you watch pasta being made in Miami?
PASTA and Otto & Pepe in Wynwood, Pane e Vino in South Beach, and Mother Wolf in the Design District all show the pasta-making from the dining room.
Which Miami pasta restaurants have a patio or waterfront seating?
Casadonna in Edgewater and Petralunga in North Bay Village sit on the water. Dōma in Wynwood and Sofia in the Design District have patios.
Where can you get red-sauce pasta in Miami?
Macchialina in South Beach and Cafe Prima Pasta in North Beach are the red-sauce rooms, with Battubelin in the Upper East Side close behind.
Do you need a reservation?
Yes for Boia De and Mother Wolf, which book quickly. Reserve the rest a few days ahead on weekends.
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