A Pasta Bar, the West Broadway restaurant in SoHo that built its following on fresh pasta and an open kitchen, starts taking diners in Miami Beach on Wednesday, October 21. The new room is at 1784 West Avenue in Sunset Harbour, and its reservation book on Resy opens that night, with nothing available before it.

It is the first time the restaurant has left New York. Its own website still lists a single venue, 330 West Broadway in Manhattan, and its current dinner menu in SoHo carries a small line at the top that gives the plan away: the kitchen traces its path from Milan to New York, with Miami added in parentheses as the next stop. As of this month, the parentheses come off.

What SoHo has been eating

The New York original has run on a deliberately narrow idea. Its site describes a menu of salads, antipasti and pasta, and pointedly no secondi: no main-course meats or fish, so that the pasta is the meal and there is room left for dessert. Founders Nicola and Simone, as the restaurant calls them, frame the whole thing around the cooking they grew up with in Italian family kitchens, a few good ingredients handled with precision rather than a long list of dishes.

The June 2026 dinner menu in SoHo, credited to chef Esther Pedrazzoli, shows what that looks like in practice. The pasta is split into signatures, classics and seafood. Tagliatelle comes with a Parmigiano fondue and black truffle. A tomato paccheri made with three kinds of tomato is finished at the table and priced for one or two. Tonnarelli cacio e pepe is built on a pecorino fondue, there are handmade agnolotti filled with roasted veal, beef and pork, and the seafood side runs to lobster paccheri, spaghetti with Manila clams and Calabrian chili, and a lemon spaghettone topped with Sicilian red prawn tartare. For the undecided, a five-course pasta tasting meant to be shared by two runs $150.

One detail on that New York menu reads differently from here: a fruit salad of cantaloupe, watermelon, mango and berries with pistachio and mint, already named Miami Vibes, sitting on a Manhattan menu months before the Miami opening.

Bigger in Miami Beach, and not only pasta

The Sunset Harbour restaurant is not a straight copy. On its Resy page, the Miami team describes the new room as a larger, more expansive take on the concept. House-made pasta and contemporary Italian cooking stay at the center, but the Miami menu adds crudo, seafood, meats, seasonal vegetables and dishes built for sharing, which is to say the very category SoHo leaves out on purpose. The open kitchen, the feature New York regulars know best, sits in the middle of the dining room here too.

That shift makes sense for the neighborhood. Sunset Harbour is the bayside corner of Miami Beach where residents actually eat on a weeknight: a few blocks of cafes, gyms, boutiques and restaurants around West Avenue and Purdy Avenue, close to the marinas on the Biscayne Bay side. A restaurant that works as a plate of cacio e pepe at the bar one night and a full shared dinner with crudo and a main course the next fits the way people use the area.

How to get a table

Reservations for A Pasta Bar Miami are on Resy, where the first open date is Wednesday, October 21. The restaurant lists its Miami Beach phone number as 305-397-8271, and the brand's site is apastabar.com, which for now still describes only the New York location, so the Resy page is the place to check for Miami details as they are posted. Miami hours and a final Miami menu had not been published as of this week; expect the SoHo pricing above to be a guide rather than a promise.

In New York the restaurant keeps dinner hours every day and adds lunch on weekends. Whether the Miami Beach room adds lunch later is an open question worth watching once the doors are open.

What it means for Miami Beach

Miami Beach has no shortage of Italian restaurants, and the flashier ones cluster along Collins Avenue and Lincoln Road. What Sunset Harbour gets here is different: a pasta specialist with a real New York reputation choosing a residential, bayside block for its first move out of Manhattan, rather than a hotel lobby or a tourist strip. For people who live between Alton Road and the bay, that means a serious bowl of fresh pasta within walking distance, and for anyone who has eaten at the SoHo original, a chance to see what the kitchen does when it is finally allowed to cook a main course.