Casa Tua Cucina opens Wynwood outpost with fresh handmade pasta and 10 stations

Casa Tua Cucina made its biggest move yet into Miami’s dining map with a second location in Wynwood, opening Friday inside NoMad Residences Wynwood at 2700 Northwest 2nd Avenue. The new outpost is the first time Casa Tua has ever replicated the Cucina format, turning what began as a single Brickell destination into a larger bet on whether the brand can work as a repeatable neighborhood draw, not just a one-off scene-maker.

The Wynwood space is built for scale. It covers about 13,500 square feet indoors, adds another 5,000 square feet of outdoor terrace seating and can host roughly 400 guests. The layout mirrors the open-kitchen energy of the original Brickell location, but with ten food stations that let diners move from one corner of the room to another for different kinds of Italian fare. Pasta is one of the main pulls, with fresh, hand-made noodles served alongside dishes from a wood-burning grill. Other stations include crudo, pizza, a dessert counter with house-made gelato, an aperitivo bar and a Mercato section that sells private-label olive oils and pastas to take home.

Casa Tua’s leadership is treating the opening like a serious operating test, not just a design exercise. Chef Mirco Delle Donne and Alessandro Caporale are leading the Wynwood location, which is open daily from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. and is walk-ins only at launch. In a neighborhood packed with high-volume restaurants and fast-moving openings, the format gives Casa Tua a chance to see whether its market-style Italian model can still feel special once it leaves Brickell.

The company has already shown what the concept can do in the right setting. Casa Tua Cucina first opened in Brickell in December 2017 at Brickell City Centre inside Saks, and Casa Tua says that location now serves about 3,000 guests a day and more than one million annually. That kind of traffic helps explain why the brand is leaning harder into expansion.

Casa Tua itself dates back to 2001, when Miky Grendene and Leticia Herrera-Grendene opened the original Casa Tua in Miami Beach as a home-like restaurant and club. Since then, it has grown into a broader lifestyle platform with restaurants, clubs and branded experiences, and Wynwood is the latest proof of that shift. Along with existing outposts in Aspen and Manhattan and a planned debut in Capri later this summer, the new Cucina in Wynwood suggests Casa Tua is no longer just selling a Miami mood. It is trying to turn that mood into an institution.