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1801 Purdy Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139

305-531-2228

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Critics'
Pick
Best Restaurants Snubbed This Year
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): Italian

Hours: Daily 12pm-12am

Price: $$$, $$$$

Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express
Attire: Casual dressy

Features: Business Dining, Catering, Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Smoking, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Recommended

Parking: Meters

Description

Get off to a rousing start by assembling your own antipasti platter from among meats (coppa, bresaola, prosciutto di parma), vegetables (braised fennel, roast beets, assortment of olives with wild fennel flowers), and cheeses (Gorgonzola, Taleggio), presented upon gorgeously garnished wooden boards, ideal for sharing over a quartino or two or three or four of wine. Sardinian chef and co-owner Pietro Vardeu has a bit of Mario Batali in him -- less dependent on strange animal parts but equally reliant on the smoke-imbued majesty brought to bear (and boar) by a roaring wood-fired oven. Try the branzino baked in salt crust, a Venetian recipe, brings pristine, juicy, mildly flavored white fillets -- delicious when kissed with a squeeze of lemon. Roasted whole octopus, braised rabbits and leeks, sweet ravioli drizzled with chestnut honey for dessert - yikes, this food is good.

2010 | Best Restaurants Snubbed This Year

They're just too good not to mention. More »
2009 | Best Use of a Hearth Oven

It seems as though every restaurant and its sister café has a wood-burning oven. Most places use them to produce blistery thin-crust pizzas, but Sardinia's chefs employ their ovens the way folks in, um, Sardinia do. This translates to whole chickens, quail, rabbits, suckling pigs, fish, octopi, steaks -- the theory evidently being anything that once walked or swam will taste good smoked. And it does. Then again, so do the beets and other vegetables tossed into the oven. If you... More »
2008 | Best Restaurant in South Beach

Ever since Norman Van Aken copped our award for Best Restaurant in Coral Gables for 10 years straight, there has been an aversion to repeating winners in the same category. It's so lazy. So boring. So predictable. But when an establishment is as singularly rewarding as Sardinia, there really isn't much choice in the matter. Few restaurants re-create the ambiance and cuisine of another country as authentically, and none has chosen a more gastronomically interesting nation. Peerless antipasti... More »
2007 | Best Restaurant in South Beach

It just appeared, as if out of nowhere -- one day there was no Sardinia Enoteca Ristorante in South Beach, the next day there was. And the day after that the 96-seater was packed to the gills, and hasn't seen an empty chair since. While "party hearty" is the draw for many a SoBe dining establishment, it is Sardi-hearty fare, rustic and robustly flavored, that has lit the fire of the public's fancy here. Lighting the smoky fire of a roaring open hearth are logs of wood beside which you'll... More »

Who Serves Bunny? The Dark Side of Easter For Rabbit Eaters

By Lesley Elliott | Wed, April 4, 2012

Rabbit is a very lean meat that can be literally "tough" to cook, which is perhaps why we see such little example of it on Miami's menus. Occasionally rabbit will pop up on a list of blackboard specia... More »
Sardinia: White Truffles & Fine Wines

By Lee Klein | Wed, November 9, 2011

The white truffles were flown in from Alba. The Beni di Batasiolo wines came in from the same region, but they were brought by the company's administrative head Fiorenzo Dogliani and its' U.S. Directo... More »
Beyond Best of Miami 2011: Top Five Inexpensive Italian Restaurants

By Lesley Elliott | Tue, August 16, 2011

Last week, we told you what Italian spots are worth the splurge, but today's roundup is the list we really love -- outstanding cuisine at a more reasonable price. Our winner for the absolute Best In... More »
26. Mille Feuille at Sardinia Enoteca

By Laine Doss | Thu, May 26, 2011

As we count down to New Times' Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to... More »
Sardinia Enoteca is Overrated

By Aniece Meinhold | Fri, September 24, 2010

Among the hundreds of mediocre Italian restaurants in this town, there has always been one that people claim to be a cut above the rest -- Sardinia Enoteca Ristorante on Purdy Avenue in South Beach... More »
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miaminewtimesbestof | Miami, FL | 232 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Ever since Norman Van Aken copped our award for Best Restaurant in Coral Gables for 10 years straight, there has been an aversion to repeating winners in the same category. It's so lazy. So boring. So predictable. But when an establishment is as singularly rewarding as Sardinia, there really isn't much choice in the matter. Few restaurants re-create the ambiance and cuisine of another country as authentically, and none has chosen a more gastronomically interesting nation. Peerless antipasti platters are assembled from each diner's choice of imported meats, cheeses, roasted vegetables, and other tasty tidbits such as Castelvetrano olives tossed with wild fennel flowers. The Sardinian wines are unique, the Italian wines extensive. Whole octopus, rib eye steaks, and suckling pigs get smokily roasted in a roaring wood-fired oven, branzino crusted in sea salt, lamb and rabbit braised into stew (entr�es run $26 to $38). Pastas, almost all under $20, include distinctive cuts such as paccheri and malloreddus, and hearty garnishings such as wild boar sausage and rabbit ragout. Ambiance and service, too, are a notch above the rest, and the hours are easy to remember: noon to midnight seven days a week. Could Norman's record be in jeopardy?

Dinner Menu

Antipasti

$14.00

Fregoletta
sardinian couscous with baby clams in a vermentino broth with thyme

$14.00

Polpettine
veal meatballs with braised fennel

$14.00

Polipo
octopus carpaccio, arugula, cherry tomatoes & olives

$14.00

Quaglie
boneless quail, wrapped in guanciale and rosemary with rapini

$14.00

Moscardini
baby octopus with celery, black olives, and tomatoes

$14.00

Carpaccio
thin sliced filet mignon with fresh baby artichoke and pecorino cheese

Zuppe

$8.00

Pasta E Fagioli

$8.00

Minestrone

$9.00

Asparagi

Insalate

$13.00

Bietole
red beets, romaine, cherry tomatoes, onions, shaved parmesan and honey

$14.00

Tonnate
rughetta, string beans, potatoes, onions and tuna

$14.00

Impero
classic caesar with ciabatta croutons and shaved parmesan

$13.00

Sarda
rughetta, radish, hearts of romaine, celery and castelvetrano olives

$12.00

Baronia
braised cauliflower, pear, sweet gorgonzola and golden beets

Mozzarella & Burrata Bar

$14.00

Bufala

$14.00

Burrata

$14.00

Fior Di Latte

$14.00

Stracciatella

$14.00

Treccione

$14.00

Sfoglia Di Burrata

Vegetali

$8.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Caponatina

$10.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Baby Artichokes, Alla Giudea

$8.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Cipolline Al Forno

$9.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Brussel Sprouts
with guanciale

$9.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Roasted Beets
with pancetta

$8.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Castelveltrano Olives
with wild fennel

$9.00
3 For $18.00
5 For $24.00

Broccoli Rabe

Pesce

$32.00

Diver's Scallops
pan seared with brown butter, sage, and asparagus

$31.00

Branzino
mediterranean sea bass baked in a salt crust

Pasta

$11.00
$17.00

Bucatini
al guanciale and pomodoro

$12.00
$18.00

Rigatoni
with hot and sweet sausages and fresh peas

$13.00
$19.00

Malloreddos
sardinian teardrop pasta with ragu of braised baby lamb

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Sardinia Enoteca Ristorante

1801 Purdy Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139

305-531-2228

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2010 | Best Restaurants Snubbed This Year

2009 | Best Use of a Hearth Oven

2008 | Best Restaurant in South Beach

2007 | Best Restaurant in South Beach

By Lesley Elliott | Wed, April 4, 2012

By Lee Klein | Wed, November 9, 2011

By Lesley Elliott | Tue, August 16, 2011

By Laine Doss | Thu, May 26, 2011

By Aniece Meinhold | Fri, September 24, 2010

miaminewtimesbestof | Miami, FL | 232 Reviews