The latest culinary addition to the downtown Miami Worldcenter is now open for your (pasta) pleasure. Founded in 1995 by Fabio Granato and Vittorio Assaf in New York City, Serafina Italian restaurant is now taking reservations at the sprawling 27-acre downtown development. The new restaurant joins other new concepts like Earls from Vancouver, which also recently opened a spot in Fort Lauderdale, and the famous Maple & Ash steakhouse and overall hot spot from Chicago.

The second Serafina in South Florida — there’s another location in Aventura — will be run by Benny Shabtai and his son David Shabtai, who grew with loving the New York version. "The first Serafina opened the year I was born, a block away from my childhood home,” he said. “It was where we’d gather for family meals. It’s where I had my first date.