The Miami area has its share of luxurious, money-is-no-object restaurants, and Fiola Miami is quickly becoming known as one of the top spots for Italian cuisine and wines in this category. Especially given what happened toward the end of 2023, when the sister restaurant of Fabio Trabocchi’s Michelin-starred Washington DC flagship hosted a succession of wine dinners with per-person price tags from $600 and up. Among them were visits from Italian standouts Gaia Gaja and Emanuele Baldi of Antinori Prunotto.

Miami lawyer and restaurateur Thomas Angelo, who brought in Trabocchi to open a Fiola in Coral Gables in 2018, is a wine connoisseur who describes the restaurant as a “passion project.”