Carbone Vino

The Restaurant

Carbone Vino opened on Grand Avenue in 2024, a Coconut Grove translation of the Mario Carbone and Major Food Group concept that began as the original Carbone in New York's Greenwich Village. The room is full Major Food Group theatre: deep colour, tufted leather banquettes, captains in burgundy jackets, an enormous bar that anchors one end of the dining room and serves the complete menu to guests who arrive without reservations. Capacity sits around one hundred and twenty across the main room, plus the bar.

The menu reads as a selected greatest-hits of the Carbone canon, with new dishes built specifically for the Coconut Grove room. The Caesar alla ZZ — assembled tableside with a ceremony that hasn't lost its appeal — is the same Caesar that built the brand. The Spicy Rigatoni alla Vodka, the dish that turned Carbone into an Instagram phenomenon, sits exactly where you want it on the card. The Veal Parmesan is large enough to share and has a crust that has become the standard the rest of Miami's Italian rooms now measure themselves against. Pumpkin agnolotti, mussels in a rich brown-butter broth, Spaghetti Bambini for the kids you brought along, a cannoli sundae for the table to share — the format is unapologetically about pleasure.

The wine programme is the under-recognised triumph: more than three thousand bottles, selected by Major Food Group's award-winning wine director John Slover, with a by-the-glass list that rotates daily and includes serious selections from Etna, Barolo, the Piedmontese Cru, Tuscan oddities, and the deeper end of Champagne. The bar is a destination in its own right and the only Major Food Group bar in Miami where the entire menu is available without a table reservation. For a Coconut Grove evening that wants the New York Italian show without flying north, this is the only address.