From still left: Mario Carbone, Jeff Zalaznick and Abundant Torrisi with 111 Northeast 41st Street (Google Maps, Significant Food stuff Team)
Main Food items Team is opening Contessa in the Miami Structure District, marking its 10th South Florida restaurant.
The New York restaurant team, whose associates have relocated or expanded to Miami over the earlier few of decades, inked a long-expression lease on the northeast corner of Northeast 41st Avenue and Northeast Initial Avenue, mentioned Key Food Team husband or wife Jeff Zalaznick. (Zalaznick bought a waterfront Sunset Islands residence final yr in Miami Beach front, when companion Mario Carbone recently shut on a Palm Island household, also in Miami Beach.)
Contessa, a northern Italian-design and style cafe with its sole place in Boston, is opening Saturday in a two-tale, roughly 10,000-square-foot room at 111 Northeast 41st Street, aspect of Paradise Plaza in the Miami Structure District. It will have terraces on both of those floors, a grand staircase, and will seat about 200 people today. Ken Fulk intended the interiors.
“The Design and style District does not genuinely have a excellent Italian cafe, and to put a single of our most legendary dining places on that corner is really exciting for us,” Zalaznick said, adding that Style and design District developer Craig Robins “always needed [Major Food Group] to acquire that corner.”
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Zalaznick declined to give lease phrases, but claimed the company signed the lease almost two yrs ago, at the time for an undisclosed thought. It’s on the exact block as Important Foods Group’s non-public membership club ZZ’s. Paradise Plaza Associates, an affiliate of Robins’ Dacra, formulated the block.
Zalaznick explained Contessa is the 18th notion that Significant Foods Group has opened all over the world in the final year, with a further 7 or 8 openings prepared by the finish of the year. Nevertheless, he known as it “the most significant cafe we have opened” in Miami.
ZZ’s is also expanding to involve a backyard, screening space and sporting activities bar. The hospitality group plans to open up a Sadelle’s inside of the Kith, also on 41st Road in the Style District.
Main Food stuff Team, led also by associate Abundant Torrisi, expanded quickly in South Florida in the course of the pandemic. It opened Carbone and HaSalon in South Beach, Soiled French Steakhouse in Brickell, Sadelle’s at The Boca Raton Vacation resort & Club, Sadelle’s in Coconut Grove and programs to open up Sadelle’s Restaurant and Market Spot at 1212 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach front.
