Caffe Luna Rosa

• Cuisine(s): Contemporary, Fine Dining, Italian, Northern Italian, Pasta, Salads, Sandwiches, Seafood
  Hours: Daily 8am-10pm
  Price: $, $$, $$$
  Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
• Attire: Business
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible, Water View
  Serving: Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
  Entertainment: Live Entertainment
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Recommended
  Parking: Street

Description

Here's where Italy meets Philly meets the tropics: at Caffe Luna Rosa, you'll dine on homemade breads, handmade pasta, and veal chop Milanese at outdoor tables just a hop from the beach. Somehow that salt air is all the seasoning chef Ernesto di Blasi's Northern Italian specialties need. The gang at Luna Rosa are sticklers for quality: meat and poultry is natural and hormone-free; tomatoes are the real San Marzano deal; hamburger is ground fresh daily in the kitchen; they even roast their own coffee beans. And they're as obsessive about breakfast, brunch, and lunch as they are about dinner. If there's another restaurant in South Florida serving Philadelphia scrapple and pork roll, we have yet to find it. Even the creamed chipped beef on toast - a meal our servicemen used to fondly call SOS - is a delicious exercise in nostalgia.