If there’s a busier restaurateur in South Florida than David Manero I’d like to hear about it.
In addition to blanketing the planet with his upscale burger joint, BurgerFi, coming soon the Delray and perhaps CityPlace too, Manero has also announced that he’s opening a third branch of his wildly popular Vic & Angelo’s Italian restaurants in South Beach.
This new V&A’s will be located—where else?—on Ocean Drive, and is slated to throw open the doors sometime in July. Corporate chef Paul Griffin will be behind the stove, turning out SoBe’s first coal-oven pizzas, along with a selection of signature dishes, among the giant 11-ounce meatball, a variety of house-made pastas, several steaks and chops, and seafood choices like roasted sea bass and black grouper.
Unique to the SoBe spot will be a caviar menu and “colossal jumbo shrimp,†which should be really, really, really big crustaceans.
Manero’s wife Lynn will do the design, dubbed “Modern Mediterranean Glam.†What that means is reclaimed Chicago brick walls and mahogany plank floor, marble tables and Venetian chandeliers, and a scattering of flat-screen TVs. There will also be two outdoor patios with firepits, upstairs and downstairs bars, a DJ station, second-floor lounge, and private balcony overlooking Ocean Drive.
