The best Italian restaurants in Miami Beach, Miami — 3 ranked picks with ratings and must-try dishes.
3 picksMiami Beach has 3 Italian restaurants we would send anyone to, ranked here by rating and review depth. Rao's Miami Beach sits at the top with 4.5 stars. If you only order one thing, make it the meatballs at Rao's Miami Beach. Most of this list stays under $40 a head. 2 of the 3 take online reservations, and the live availability badge on each card shows what is actually open tonight.
Miami Beach is a Italian-leaning pocket of Miami where the 3 restaurants we track average 4.3 stars.
Italian in Miami Beach — 4.5 across 2,131 diner reviews
Must-try: Meatballs, Gemelli Pesto
📍 1601 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL
Italian in Miami Beach — 4.5 across 1,037 diner reviews
Must-try: Black Truffle Pizza, Cacio E Pepe
📍 4385 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Italian in Miami Beach — 4 across 2,412 diner reviews
Must-try: Spicy Rigatoni, Tableside Caesar, Lobster Ravioli
📍 49 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL
Rao's Miami Beach — 4.5 stars across 2,131 reviews, the highest on this list. Italian in Miami Beach — 4.5 across 2,131 diner reviews.
2 of the 3 book online — Rao's Miami Beach and Carbone Miami Beach. The rest are walk-in or phone-only. Each card here shows live availability for tonight where the restaurant publishes it.
The meatballs at Rao's Miami Beach, the black truffle pizza at Cecconi's and the spicy rigatoni at Carbone Miami Beach. Those are the dishes regulars point to first.
Ratings and review volume decide the order, but the list itself is drawn from restaurants people actually post about — 3 of the 3 here have a TikTok attached to their card. Every entry is checked as open before it ships.