‘How we grew up eating’: New Italian restaurant opens in Coconut Grove
Two Miami hospitality groups have joined forces to open a new Italian restaurant in Coconut Grove.
Located in the former space of Ariete Hospitality’s Mediterranean restaurant Eva, which closed earlier this year, the new Da Angelino Cucina Italiana is a collaboration between the Ariete group and Graspa Hospitality, which specializes in Italian concepts that include Spris Artisan Pizza, Segafredo, Salumeria 104 and Osteria in the MiMo neighborhood.
Led by Chef Michael Beltran and business partner and CEO Andrew Falsetto, Ariete Hospitality is best known for the Michelin-starred Ariete in the Grove, the Bib Gourmand Chug’s Diner, Brasserie Laurel and The Gibson Room.
Da Angelino aims to be more approachable than a Michelin-starred restaurant. At 4,441 square feet, it offers space for 150 diners indoors and outside on the garden-style patio.
Falsetto, whose father is Italian, said in a statement that the team had wanted to open an Italian restaurant for a long time.
“We knew we had to do it with the right partners,” he said. “Graspa Group brings decades of award-winning flavor, service and soul.”
Pasta lies at the heart of the menu, not surprisingly, with cacio e pepe alla Ruota (made in a cheese wheel at your table), gnocchi alla vodka and linguine ai frutti di mare. Dishes run from around $24 (for the gnocchi) to $39 (the cacio e pepe with truffle).
The menu also includes appetizers like tuna tartare, octopus, arancini and burrata caprese, all $16, as well branzino, meats slow-cooked in red wine, short ribs and what the restaurant calls its signature dish, veal Milanese, for $60 (other entrees range from $36 to $58). There are also several grilled meats to share.
Angelin Kometa of Graspa Hospitality calls the restaurant a comfortable place to eat.
“It’s not fine dining in the traditional sense,” he explained. “It’s how we grew up eating in Italy — elegant but never stiff, where guests are welcomed like family.”
Da Angelino Cucina Italiana
Where: 3015 Grand Ave., Miami
Opening: Sept. 4
Hours: 4-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 4-11 p.m. Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-10 p.m. Sunday
More information: daangelino.com
This story was originally published September 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM.