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It is impossible to have the “Miami’s best pasta” conversation without bringing up Luca Osteria. The Coral Gables restaurant, located along the pedestrian-only Giralda Plaza, has lots of spacious outdoor seating and a small, bright dining room good for a date, dinner with the parents, or sitting solo at the bar with a negroni and some marinated olives.
But you're coming here for the kind of fresh, al dente noodles that make you want to name your first born child Bucatini.
Pasta—as we hope we've made clear by now—should be on the table. But there is another dish that’s a definite must-order: the patate fritte. The dish—crispy potato balls covered in parmigiano fonduta, black truffle, and an egg yolk—might be the greatest thing anyone’s ever done with a potato since Mr. Potato Head. Every bite is a perfect little explosion of fluffy potato, truffle, yolk, and cheese.
But even if a tragic potato supply chain incident were to take the patate fritte off the menu, we’d still be begging strangers to make a reservation here. The entire menu—from appetizers to dessert—delivers. Luca could easily succeed by clinging to its patate fritte or its near-perfect pasta, the same way Timothée Chalamet could easily succeed on cheekbones alone. Thankfully for us all, they’re both trying harder than that.
The menu at Luca Osteria changes frequently, but here are a few examples of the kind of dishes you might find here.
Food Rundown
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Patate Fritte
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Cacio E Pepe
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Bucatini Alle Vongole
Lamb Chops
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