Ciao to La Centrale: Brickell City Centre’s 3-story Italian food hall is being replaced
Goodbye, La Centrale. Hello, Luna Park.
The three-story Italian food hall that anchored one end of the indoor-outdoor Brickell City Centre mall has changed owners. And the new owners have a plan to distinguish its new-and-improved Luna Park from the other Italian food hall at the other end of the mall, Casa Tua Cucina.
Namely: a chef with a two-star Michelin restaurant.
Chef Nino di Costanzo, who was awarded two stars for his Daní Maison in Iscia, Italy, will headline a third-floor restaurant to replace the wine bar and cooking school atop Luna Park.
“We are going to talk about our Italian point of view,” Fengze Yeh, CEO of Luna Park, said during a phone interview.
The restaurant is the major headline change. The rest of the restaurants and marketplace on the first floor will also be rebranded.
The busy first-floor market will feature a pizzeria, café and a market to include local and imported artisanal goods, from charcuterie and cheeses to olive oils and tapenade olive spreads.
Luna Park’s second floor will rebrand three distinct restaurants. Macellaio RC is an Italian butchery that will prepare meat-forward dishes using Fassona beef, a breed of cattle innovated in Piedmont, Italy, but raised in Nebraska.
Osterio No. 0 will focus on Southern Italian fare (focused on the cities of Sicily, Puglia and Campagna) and a gluten-free vegetarian restaurant, Puro’s, remakes a third space.
La Centrale opened with much fanfare in February of 2018 and made a new push with a rosé bar last summer. But it was always overshadowed at the other end of the mall by Casa Tua Cucina, a similar concept by the successful longtime South Beach restaurant Casa Tua.
The first two floors reopens as Luna Park open December 14. Costanzo’s new third-floor restaurant won’t open until after the New Year.
Luna Park
701 S Miami Ave., inside Brickell City Centre, Brickell
This story was originally published November 27, 2019 at 6:00 AM.
