Miami's Next Great Italian Restaurant Just Opened in Doral

Even during rush hour, it's closer than Italy

Photo by Erin Michelle Newberg

Italian food is kind of like lip filler: There’s just a lot in Miami these days, and nobody was asking for it. So when a restaurant comes along that doesn’t just talk about serving authentic, inventive, straight-from-a-hillside-village Italian food, and actually makes it, that’s almost as novel as finding someone whose face has never seen a plastic surgeon.

Such is the case at Altamura Trattoria e Forno, a spanking-new Italian spot whose food is both amazing and unassuming. It’s the creation of Massimo and Elisabetta Tundo, the chef couple who wowed us with Dal Pin in the MIA Market. Their new venture is named after their hometown of Altamura in Italy, and set three miles west of the Palmetto in Doral. But don’t think of it as a shlep. Think of it as a culinary journey past landfill mountains and rock quarry lakes, to a charming little village filled with nail spas and veterinary offices.

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