Reviews of Fratelli La Bufala - Miami Beach (Restaurant)

Barbara

My husband and I come here often for pasta and pizza. The food is great and at a very reasonable price. Pasta portions are very generous and the pizza comes out with the perfect fired crispness but still so soft and fresh tasting. Pasta dishes are also very fresh and authentic Italian. My favorite is the Monte y Mare, with octopus, shrimp and mushrooms!

Nico

Pretty personal pizza. Didn't see many toppings with any choices of the pizzas they had. Not sure why they charge the price they charge. I was hungry so it filled me up and a decent size. I had the margherita. Pretty sure it was just cheese.

kapowell .

Best Italian food we've had since being in Italy last year. Had the Calzone and loved it. Same for my wife's gnocchi. Service fast, efficient and friendly. Would absolutely recommend to others.

Taniya Jayawardena

Amazing pizza! Friendly service and just tasty food that’s not crazily priced like the rest of Miami

Guillaume Dayawa

The pizzas were not good enough for the price we paid. You should rather go to Piola, they make awesome pizzas and pasta for the same price and I tested both restaurants.

Bruce N

First time visit. Accidentally Went on Monday piazza night. Service was still great. Eggplant appetizer, linguine with shrimp, and the meatball entree were excellent. The cannoli were just good, but maybe I was expecting more because of the other parts of the meal.

Arun Bhupal

The pizza was freshly made using high quality ingredients

Y Samuel

Like eating at a local spot in Italy... great food, people and service. Pasta and pizza were perfect.

Alexander Pineda

Excellent place. Genuine Italian People working in the store. The food is great. Italian food for real from real Italians.

Leonardo Castaldi

Like to be at Home ...and Francesca is the best. Great good and service. thanks for letting our kids playing with dough..

TheSupeermeen

Food alright. Service very bad, where asked to move table while already eating and had to wait almost 20mins for the check. never again!

Hayley Milks

Hands down, most authentic Italian style pizza EVER. The crust has a doughy texture, but also manages a light crispy finish. I would drive to the beach just to have this pizza, and the fact that it's Italian-owned is another testament to its authenticity.

Teresa Pic

Good food waiter added the tip on the check.

Kristen Bert

My husband and I had our rehearsal dinner at La Bufala a few years ago and make a point to stop in to get pizza here about once a year. The pizza is truly incredible. We love the Diablo pizza and the mozzarella cheese appetizer. Fabulous service. Authentic Italian pizza made with fresh, handmade ingredients. We love this place and highly recommend to anyone staying in Miami.

migdalia garcia

The dinner was delicious

briza Montufar

Always great service...and the waiter was very nice and professional.

Silvana Carone

Food was good, service very attentive and staff was overall nice looking especially Antonio the Napolitano

Alex Allen

This is just one of my favorite places to go. It has caught my eye years ago. The pasta carbonara or any of the pizzas are my favorites. But, really, it is all excellent.

ashley henderson

Best Italian food in Miami! Reasonably priced as well! Not in the most hip area but worth the walk

Juan C Alvarez

Excellent pasta, very good Pizza and great service!

Kristen S

Lunch on Thursday afternoon was excellent. I loved the Mediterranean salad & cacio e pepe. The salad is a large portion and can easily be shared amongst 4 people. The slices of mozzarella were so fresh & creamy. I also tried the pasta carbonara and preferred it to the cacio e pepe. Either one is a winning choice. Both pasta dishes were so creamy and the pasta was cooked perfectly. Service was welcoming and attentive. And the Italian music really brings it all together for an authentic experience. This meal just gave me all those good warm & fuzzy feelings. Can't wait to return.

Lourna M

Can’t make up my mind which pizza is best! Just go with like 3 people and share several! Excellent service.

אדם רפאל

Dishes were just great! Authentic italian restaurant, good vibes, good service, good price! Very recommended

Reynier Perez

Good food, great attention.

chris ewert

Closest to authentic Italian pizza that you can get in the U.S. Absolutely fantastic!

Beatriz Davidson

Good food. Pleasant service.

DREADLOCKS MEME

I went to eat on my first date, my date he was absolutely amazing. The food and customer service was awesome. It was a perfect night for me and my date.

Ankush Borse

Nice small restaurant with Italian entrees and drinks. Lots of options for pasta, pizza and Italian food. And of course oven fried flavorful aroma of pizza in air. They have outdoor and indoor sitting. Opted for indoor sitting. Ordered grilled salmon with qunoea and asparagus. Crisp juicy deliciously cooked salmon. Also they have long desert menu. Got torta caprese. Chocolate with vanilla ice cream. Server Sefrif is been very nice, smiling and thorough gentle man. Referred women in group as lady. Always smiling and answering questions patiently. Lots of Italian / Spanish music in background. Nice dining experience overall. Will love to visit again. Would recommend for warm, delicious home made style food and great service.

Greg Brown

I vacationed to Miami in 2015 and ate here 3 times in a week! This is the best pizza I’ve ever eaten. I’m going to Hollywood, Florida in October and I will be coming here to enjoy the best pizza on earth!

Charles Stallone

Eat Bruchetta nd Reala pizza.. I've eaten better bruch but still good tho I only missed a hint of garlic. The pizza was

Charles Dahles

Super good food! Great service and atmosphere. The pizza is one of the best pizzas I tasted while in US

cortez ward

The best pizza I have ever had

Karine Studart

Good vibe, good service, good food.

Munir Turunc

Good pizza and pasta at reasonable prices. We started with burrata and eggplant appetizer. They were both good. Second course pizza. Pizza was good but a little undercooked. Chianti was good and very reasonable. At $ 8 per glass this must have been the best value in south beach.

Elena Evsikova

Pizza with tuna was awesome as well as octopus salad. Haven't tried such a delicicious octopus salad ever. Interior is cosy with funny pictures on the walls (buffalo-immigrant really made my laugh). Service is ok, cannot call it excellent, but it was fine. Recommend them 100%.

Mary Restifo

Good food. Friendly enviroment. I had Eggplants Parmigiana delicious! Good quality products. My niece had glutten free pasta yummy too. Our waitress was Valeria originally from Rome. She was very kind and professional. I highly recomend this place. I always come back. Vera Cucina Italiana!

Ashley Hill

Great place for dinner or lunch fast service and fantastic pizza.

Jan Zahariev

The real deal. Authentic Napolitano cuisine. Doesn't get better than fratelli's. Conviently located in South beach. Best Italian eating in town. A must go!

YYZFRANK

Decided to give this South Beach authentic Neapolitan Pizza place a try and very impressed. Now before you go to this place know that Neapolitan pizza is very thin and the dough is chewy not crispy. We had the calamari which we're good and something that I've wanted to try for a long time mozzarella sticks made with mozzarella Di bufala I must say absolutely amazing. The pizza was made with the right ingredients doppio zero flour and San Marzano tomatoes. They made it to my preference adding the bufala after the pizza was cooked. The service was fantastic the wait staff are all Italian which gave it that nice feel. This place is so busy that they have one pizzaello stretching the pizza and one cooking it in the wood oven. I also was able to try cheesecake made with mozzarella Di bufala. if you like mozzarella di bufala this place has everything with just luxury mozzarella enjoyed it very much. Thanks to all the staff keep up the good work worth the visit.

Enrique

Best pizza I've ever had cheese is amazing and the service was good

Leonardo Sosa

The best Italian food in Miami beach.. all fresh

Monica Recinos

The best POLPO salad! Great relax ambience!

Creative Design

some of the best pizza is here in this place Fratelli

pcasarian

excellent personal size pizza. They fired it up in a brick oven(visible from dining room). Came out fast. Didn't like they autotipped my check(typical in South Beach though)

Davide Di Lucchio

Good prices during the Monday's pizza, which is good as in Italy. I just didn't like they included automatically the 15% tip in the final price

James Law

Best Napolitano pizza I've had since northern Italy. Prices are reasonable. Staff was very nice and handled our request for take out very quickly.

G. Testa

Great Margherita Pizza. Waiters are from Naples Italy too.

sarah belam

Good service, exellent pasta

Marcos Flores

Food was great, service was, with a full house they worked out a table for us fairly quickly

Stephanie Flint

I love Italian food!!! This place i definitely full of wonderful Italian charm. Pizzas are DELICIOSO!!!

Alex Castro

Best quinoa Salad in the whole universe , best burrata best cheese, best home made pasta , everything is so good , this place take me back to italy

Michael Boccia

For a true Italian experience, look no further than Fratelli La Bufala. Most everyone that works there is Italian, which adds to the experience. The mozzarella was phenomenal, and the presentation of the plate was beautiful. Along with that we had a true Napoletano specialty, pizza fritta (fried pizza). It was off menu, but they make it on occasion. Being from Naples, Italy myself, I can attest to the fact the food is authentic in quality. Someone complained in a review that their pizza Margherita was just cheese, but that's LITERALLY what a margarita pizza is. The only thing that could make this place better would be for them to have a liquor license to serve limoncello as an aperitif!

Ori Merkur

This place was amazing. The local Italian staff knew their product and the quality of the food was outstanding. Can’t wait to go back....but next time to Italy!

Tanja Bekhuis

Try the quinoa salad w small colorful tomatoes, feta, arugula, and avocado. It's deceptive because the greens are hidden below a lot of quinoa, which looks daunting at first. Still, it is delicious. Also, they serve the salad with wonderful crusty bread and olive oil. The trattoria is less than a block from the very interesting Jewish Museum of Florida.

Lally LP

Absolutely loved the place and the staff was lovely and very welcoming; as an Italian I can totally recommend this restaurant to anyone who wants to taste the true Italian food and cuisine!

Aurelien PIVO

Really good pizza. Real Italien waiters with good service. Quantity is good. Not cheap. Coca-Coca is just a can, would prefer a glass bottle. Will come back soon.

fabio78able

I had a pizza valtellina ,I am Italian,I had to ask to do it again because the pizza it was kind of square and the border veeeery tall so the dough was not cooked and also without mozzarella which I never see in my life anywhere in world unless you ask for it...I am aware that I have choose a white pizza base but that it means anywhere in the world that it’s without tomato no without mozzarella ,long story short I pay 30.50$ for a pizza (very bad,taste less )and a beer...I don’t recommend at all !!!expensive and bad!!!by the way they have changed it for me but the second pizza was exactly the same but with some cold mozzarella as I asked to put some on it ...disgusting!!!!this is not the Italian way man!!!c’mon

mike emmekappa

Pizza is mediocre but the environment is nice. A real italian place.

Damian Martinez

This restaurant is not the best place for pizza. I was disappointed with the quality of our pizza. My girlfriend and I had two different types of pizza, and both were very bland and didn't have much taste to them. However, the place is immaculate. The restaurant is spotless and organized. The staff was amicable, and we received excellent service. It's just a great disappointment that the food was not as good as the service and the place.

Rosanna Lancaster

They have Absolutely the best pizza around

Charles R

Great Pizza and an amazing staff! This the only place in Miami Beach that I never questioned the automatic addition of the service charge. Although it is not my go-to item to buy, the Pasta is great also. Go! It is one of the most convivial places to eat in Miami Beach :)

Arturo

Wow. Terrible food. We ordered out and the food was (1) overcooked and flavorless, (2) truly tiny in portion size, and (3) spilling out of the containers. I wouldn't pay 1 dollar for the food they sold me, let alone the 17 to 18 dollars they charge per plate.

Iván Pérez Arias

The best pizza ever, the bread and flavor, delicious such an amazing place

Giulio Iaconi

Top notch pizzaiola in Miami beach with wonderful wood-burning oven pizza, pasta and other favorites. Great staff (grazie e complimenti Marco!)

Jake White

Maybe I expected too much, but passed by this spot while walking through the area and marked it for a dinner before I departed. Got there and ordered the lasagna and it tasted like something from a high school home ec class- thin layers, runny sauce, little flavor, small portion. Possibly other selections are better, but was fully disappointed. Also, staff wasn't very attentive.

OCOC 1313

Excellent place a little far from the crowd but much better than many. Very friendly waitress. Great pizza and pasta.

Asha Lefey

Great food. Very convenient

Rose Sanchez

Amazing. You choose your noodles (dry or soup), then type of noodkes. Got the dry knife cut noodles with beef. Noodles were perfect, not too hard n not too mushy. Served with a light body but flavorful sauce, some sort if green veg, n small strips of beef. $8.75. only cash accepted. Its on a tiny curvy street, which is next to tea parlor (another great restaurant) n china town icecream factory (which is amazing as well).

Curt Bloodworth

Nice restaurant with tables for al fresco dining.

Riding In Retirement

Sunday was quiet and peaceful I felt like I was the VIP in the room. Pasta was great

C. G.

Very fine and great Italian restaurant. The service is impeccable and so friendly. The food tastes so delicious. I'm so glad I came to this restaurant to eat. I have high standards and expectations of any Italian food I eat. This restaurant went beyond those! Amazing!

Orkhan Hasanli

We came for a pizza and were NOT disappointed. Food was great and staff were very friendly. I liked seeing the kitchen in action while waiting for the food. I feel more confident when the kitchen is visible from where I sit. Best pizza location at South Beach for reasonable price.

Lisa Camp

Really great wood fired pizza. Very authentic and I've been to Italy about 14x's. Very nice. Wait staff was great!

Frank Richter

Best Italian pizza in Miami Beach.Fresh, delicious toppings and perfectly baked dough. Fast and friendly service. Highly recommendable.

Mary Tomasso

Food overpriced, staff rude: they brought the wrong pizza and didn't even apologize and we had to wait for a new one to be baked. They rushed us asking if we wanted the bill as soon as we finished eating.

Paloma Colon

AMAZING PIZZA. went 2 nights in a row it was so good.. even after eating dinner.

Nicki Noo

I came here with high hopes after I saw the reviews talking about the great pizza. However, most the of the pizza is simple cheese and tomato sauce at a high price. Each pizza is a personal size (about 9”-10”), so you are paying about $10-16 for a small pizza that is 4 slices. The toppings are not varied either as they only add a small amount of them. You can get this kind of pizza anywhere. The taste was good, but it wasn’t worth it for the price.

Martine Kieffer

Very good pizza but make sure you ask for it to be overcooked if you like the center of the pizza on the dry side. Service is decent. A safe value in Miami Beach.

Riccardo Bennato

True neapolitan pizza, just like in italy. Buonissimo!!

Jeremy Mays

Favorite pizza place in South Beach.

Sebastian

I went for dinner last night and it was so good I went back today for lunch. The pizza and pasta are both worth recommending.

Paula K

Loved it! Just stumbled on this restaurant during an evening walk and decided to try it. Staff is authentically and wonderfully Italian--grazie! Food was unbelievably GREAT! We had the tricolore pizza and the papardelle con fungi. Delicious! The pizza crust was the best we ever had! We will be back! Also bought the t-shirts the waiters wear. They are great!

Oleg Pershakov

Nice place for

Svetlana Boldõr

We came here 2ce as our hotel wasn't too far away. First night we got a starter, bottle of wine and some meat and pasta! Absolutely fantastic! Other day we came here for lunch just before heading down to the airport and got pizzas! So delicious! We are Europeans and lived in Italy for a while so we really love our pizzas! These ones didn't disappoint! So delicious! Service is great and reasonable prices as well!

Pierre-Yves Jousseaume

Food was delicious. One of the best burrata I had in the US and the pizza (margarita) was perfect. Service was very good and smily.

Ryan Colbert

Very good prices for an Italian place on South Beach.

Karina Trovato

They've changed their menu & quality over time, which is disappointing. Still among the better Italian places in the South Beach area.

John LeMaire

Heard about this place on food network and was not disappointed. Great ambiance, friendly staff, no rush. Everything from the apps to dessert were top notch. The repione is literally the best thing I ever ate...

Mitch Murphy

Been there once 2 years ago for my very first time in Miami my godfather and I stopped at this joint for a taste of Neapolitan pizza and we loved it I like Neapolitan pizza just as much as I like Americanized pizza!!!

Konstantinos Kouris

The best pizza and pasta in south beach, the staff was very polite and helpful we ve been there for 2 nights in the row, don't forget to taste tiramisu and the original espresso. Totally recommended for best prices too.

giovanni rucher

The pizza was ok, the sauce little bland may need some more olive oil and salt but much better what you can find around. The bucatini cacio e pepe They added heavy cream which ruined the dish. The octopus was good, the gnocchi they don't use potatoes and I didn't like them but this is personal preference. It was not super expensive. I would go back but really order very few things that are ok

John Cardenas

Really good food and outstanding service, thank you very much Maria.

Nicholos summers

The customer service and food were some of the best I experienced in Miami on my recent visit . The pizza was the best I’ve ever had, authentic as it gets in America. My girlfriend is from Sicily and she felt at home . I will be returning whenever in Miami .

Domenic Santaguida

Authentic Neopolitan Pizza! Great pasta dishes as well! Definitely try it when in South Beach.

Natalie Cabezas

Most authentic pizza and amazing pasta! 10000% recommend

Raul Alvarez

The food is delicius!!! One of the best places for Italian food in Miami!!!

Louie L

The best pizza/pasta resto in South Beach, hands down.

Darren Davidson

Great local restaurant. Food and service always the best.