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20 Years In, Il Mulino Finally Looks as Good as It Tastes

After a full renovation at Acqualina, Sunny Isles' longstanding Italian dining room gets the space it always deserved

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Olee Fowler
Apr 10, 2026
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I mean…. look at that VIEW! (Photo courtesy of Jackie Knabben)

I'll be real with you, I hadn’t been or honestly had Il Mulino on my radar for the past few years. The food was good, the water was there, the service was reliably old-school Italian in a way that felt like a given. But the room itself? It was fine. It did the job. Its recent renovation changed that. My husband and I went a few weeks ago, late afternoon, one of those perfect late-March Miami evenings where the sun is doing that warm golden thing across the water and you're genuinely thankful to live in possibly the only city not hit by the latest arctic blast.

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Il Mulino New York has been at Acqualina Resort & Residences in Sunny Isles Beach since 2006, which makes this its 20th year, and the renovation, completed this past winter, feel…

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