The Fontainebleau Miami Beach will open a coastal Italian cuisine restaurant with a menu created by acclaimed chef Michael White.

By Erik Bojnansky

Located at the base of the resort’s Sorrento Tower, designed by Nichols Architects, Mirabella takes over where Scarpetta restaurant once operated. The 9,418-square-foot restaurant will have 317 seats, including bar and lounge seating, in an interior designed by London-based David Collins Studio.

“Mirabella is both a celebration of Italian cuisine and a reflection of my own culinary journey, which began 25 years ago during a transformative period for Italian cooking in the United States,” White stated.

The Fontainebleau, at 4441 Collins Avenue, was built with its original tower in 1954. Aventura-based Turnberry Associates paid $165 million for the 22-acre property in 2005. The deal itself was spearheaded by Jeffrey Soffer, son of Turnberry Associates founder Donald Soffer. Two Nichols Architects designed condo-hotel towers were later built on the property, one of them being Sorrento, which was completed in 2008.

Now run by Jeffrey Soffer’s Fontainebleau Development, the property boasts more than 1,500 hotel rooms. In July, the Fontainebleau broke ground on the construction of a convention center, also by Nichols, on the property after securing a $72.8 million loan from Goldman Sachs Banks.

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