Super 7: Wynwood Restaurants
So good you'll almost forget about Art Walk
Sparrow Italia
Oh, you thought pairing Italian food with wine was cool? That, friend, is painfully 1623. In 2025, the best pairing for Italian food is 1990s hip-hop music. You’ll realize this as soon as you step into Sparrow, which feels a little like an expensive interior designer’s take on a Subway station with less graffiti and more wagyu Bolognese. The place is big on Italian-American crowd-pleasers, kinda like the Jay-Z of restaurant menus.
Pro tip: Head to the bar where they’ve got a huge menu of pizza “slices,” which are actually squares that can feed two not-that-hungry people. The chicken alla vodka was the best thing I had last week. @sparrowitalia // 255 NW 25th St.
Lira Beirut
Like you, I was excited that Wynwood had an entire restaurant devoted to beer pong. My disappointment when I realized Lira Beirut was actually a Lebanese restaurant was short lived, though, especially once I tried the kafta kabab and meat eggplant fatteh – a s…
