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Luna Cafe

4770 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33137
305-573-5862
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This latest effort from the Billante clan is not unlike its other stellar venues, such as Bella Luna, Trattoria Rosalia, Ristorante Villagio, and Carpaccio. Luna Café boasts the same effortlessly comfortable atmosphere, at once both family-friendly and a little bit chic; the same selection of classic Italian restaurant dishes sectioned into soups, salads, antipasti, carpaccios, pizzas, pastas, risottos, fish, chicken, and meats; the same copious clusters of customers clamoring for a table; and, amazingly, the same popular prices, which never seem to increase -- Luna’s pastas top out at $14, entrées at $22. The cuisine won’t take you over the moon, but it is consistently fresh, consistently tasty, and, if the Billante model holds up here, it will be consistently consistent -- meaning if you like the lasagna this week, you’ll like it in five weeks, or five years from now. And you will like the lasagna, a short square of thin noodles lusciously layered with subtle touches of cheese and an especially buoyant Bolognese sauce. You’ll likely like the other pastas too: thick tubes of rigatoni with lots of hearty homemade Italian sausage; veal-filled tortellini toothsomely tossed with peas in a pale pink tomato-cream sauce; and the excellent carbonara, with a rich, eggy sauce clinging to pancetta-studded noodles. Other standouts include a hammy pasta e fagioli and a half-chicken roasted in a wood-fired oven. Those in the neighborhood, and those in the know, have quickly discovered that Luna eclipses other Italian restaurants of its ilk.
  • Cuisine(s): Italian
  • Hours: Sun-Thurs 11:30 a.m. - 11 p.m; Fri and Sat 11:30-midnight
  • Price: $$
  • Serving: Lunch, Dinner
  • Reservations: Accepted
  • Parking: Valet
  • Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  • Attire: Casual
  • Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party
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