Foodie Find: Toscana Divino
In Mary Brickell Village, this restaurant serves Italian fare that's both authentic and modern. PHOTOS BY AIXA HOLT
Toscana Divino in Mary Brickell Village is serving up Italian specialties to an upscale crowd, recently receiving some of the city’s most esteemed sports executives for a SocialMiami Editor’s lunch. There, tucked away in a dining room that offers city views through oversized windows and floor-to-ceiling wine racks displaying selective vintages, the group started their philanthropic discussion over prosciutto, burrata and black truffle, with cheese that’s distinctively homemade and perfectly textured. They also sampled the house smoked salmon cheesecake with Ora King salmon, pan brioche, goat chees and caviar, which is an upscale and creative take on classic flavors.
The pastas are also handmade, served and stuffed with the most discerning of ingredients. The table enjoyed tortelli ricotta and spinach, which is prepared with buffalo ricotta, spinach but delicately served with Insigny butter and sage. And the risotto mushroom and truffle dish, which — made with Aquerello rice, wild mushrooms and black truffle — has decadent, rich flavors but a light finish. As a main course, the filet mignon Rossini is an 8 ounce beef tenderloin topped with foie gras, scallop, truffle sauce.
And for dessert, the Pistachio & Lamponi and Crème Brule, which arrives with the crisp top and decorated with edible flowers.
IF YOU GO: Toscana Divino, 900 S Miami Ave, Miami, (305) 371-2767.
Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home Economist is first published in The Miami Herald and then on the Tribune Content Agency, where it’s available to over 400 publications nationwide. She is broadcast weekly on two iHeartRadio news shows and is the author of “Not Buying It: Stop Overspending & Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids,” a parenting guide for people who might be tempted to buy their children the very obstacles they’re trying to avoid.
