Boia De

Boia De, one of the Best Italian Restaurants in Miami you have to try, is located in a modest but adequate commercial complex that is bordered by a mom-and-pop grocery store and a laundromat on the outskirts of Little Haiti, an immigrant neighborhood on the cusp of significant transformation. Reservations are required because the retro-styled restaurant only has 24 seats.

You may see Michelin-trained chefs Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer working at the black-and-white terrazzo counter: The two walk rhythmically around one another as songs by Neil Young and Paul McCartney are played on the speakers. Meyer slices porchetta for a novel salumi-style beginning that is topped with sunchokes and matsutake mushrooms, and Giangrandi painstakingly assembles the absolutely superb beef tartare.

Each dish is elevated a notch: the beef tartare, for instance, is topped with a crunchy shallot-garlic mixture and fried capers for a burst of briny flavor, and the whole thing is smothered in a delicious tonnato sauce, an Italian condiment made with tuna that binds everything together like a fancy picnic salad. The date would have only had one piece of the toast if it hadn't been for the two slices of buttered Sullivan Street Bakery bread that served as the assumed serving size.

Google Rating: 4.5/5.0
Address: 5205 NE Second AveMiami33137
Phone: 305-967-8866
Website: www.boiaderestaurant.com