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Review:  After being seated on a very hot day at the restaurant and waiting exactly 10 minutes with no service, we decided to leave.  Upon leaving our table, a younger blond pony-tailed male employee inquired what the problem was and why we were leaving.  I kindly mentioned that we had waited much to long for service.  He then mentioned that he would have someone serve us at this time.  We declined multiple times as he was insistent to help us.  He then offered to pick up the tab for our lunch. I thought that this was a decent gesture on his part.  When I decided to accept his offer, he laughed at us and said that no way would he do this for us and that he didn't want us there.  This entire experience happened in the presence of other dinners.  I could see their shock at his unwarranted attempt to humiliate us for no apparent reason.  We were blindsided by his rudeness.  I do not recommend this restaurant as long at this terrible employee attempts to work there.  This ridiculous event happened over lunch on April 26, 2008

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Review:  We took advantage of the half price menu and we were not disappointed.  The seared tuna and traditional salad was excellent.  We ordered a bottle of wine and the value was very good. Our waiter was attentive and friendly.  Overall, we had a great time.

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Review:  Can you say, CLIP JOINT?

It all stared at the sidewalk. The beautiful young blond girl stationed on the sidewalk did her magic on us. We stopped and she did her pitch. "It was happy hour! "Everything was 50% off including entrees!"

What closed the deal for us was that we could eat inside which was slightly cooler than eating on the sidewalk.

Our waitress was stone cold at the beginning which is always a bad sign. This especially scares me as I have a dangerous allergy to dairy products so eating Italian is a crap shoot and a potential trip to the ER of the wait staff is not looking out for me.

The drinks took forever as we had frozen Margaritas and our waitress told us they have to make them one at a time.

The food was surprisingly very good. I had seared tuna cooked to perfection. My guests were satisfied as well.

Then the bill came. Yikes!  One hundred and sixty bucks! And they included the tip!

It turns out that they charged us $14.00 for our watered down Margaritas which adds up when you have a few. The waitress pointed out that they charge $15.00 next door!

I explained to her that I would have given her a bigger tip than what was added as she did take care of us.

I visit Miami once a year on business. I always try to visit South Beach, especially if I'm showing someone around. However after my last experience I probably will skip South Beach on future visits. I am a salesperson. I know that the person that you are dealing with may have connections that can make or break your business. You have to treat everyone the same way. Clearly some restaurants at South Beach think we are one time customers so they feel there will be no harm in screwing the tourists.

I'm here to say they are wrong.

Don't go to this place. They don't deserve your business.

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Review:  My wife and I were in South Beach on Thursday night May 25th and we found this place. It looked like it had a good atmosphere and decided to sit there for dinner.

We ordered some cocktails which were fine. Then we ordered the arugula and shaved parmesan salad and asked the waiter for his recommendation for my wife. The waiter recommended the seafood pasta special (without mentioning the price). I, coming from the service industry, always listen to the staff's recommendation so I agreed and ordered the seafood pasta dish for my wife and linguini bolognese for myself.

The arugula salad was bad. The arugula was at least 7 days old with yellow leafs that in my restaurant I would never serve. Not to mention the salad was $14.

Then, the main courses came. I have to admit that my pasta dish was good, but the seafood pasta was not fresh. The seafood was some of the worst seafood I had ever tasted and my wife couldn't even eat it.

We asked for our bill and the bill came in at $168 including tips. I asked to see the manager and told him about the salad and that the seafood pasta at $55 should at least be super fresh. He said "our food is always fresh" and then I mentioned that I run a restaurant in Chicago and he said "let me do something about the bill". He came back a few minutes later with the bill discounted by 25%.

Please, do not go to this restaurant. Not only it's bad but you may be risking your health. Stay away!!! I will definitely make a complaint to the health department on them. These people should NOT be in business.

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Review:  It started perfect with complementary breadsticks. The waiter was a bit un-polite and so were the rest of the staff. Dinner was delicious but not much was served for such a high price. At the end of our night we paid with cash and after a good 10 minute wait time to get receipt of my payment; the receipt changed in price. I asked my waiter and he simply said "Sir, the computer doesn't make errors". I spend a good 10 more minutes for them to fix my bill and finally they did but without even telling us they were sorry. Read carefully what every review here states, they are not lying.

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Review:  I wouldn't recommend this restaurant to anyone!  We placed our orders and we got an appetizer and for our entree we got the tuna and their pasta with lobster tail and shrimp in a spicy red sauce special.  Our food took a while to come out and we got our entrees before our appetizer, so I asked the waitress and she said that she forgot to put the order in.  We asked her to still place the order because the tuna dish was way too small and wouldn't fill up my husband.  The lobster special was way too over priced at $55.  Will never go back!!!

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Review:  Hi! I'm Italian and I stayed in Miami Beach in August 2006 with my friends. I had eat at Caffè Milano and I have tried the BEST Pasta and Fish in all of MIAMI!!! I tried Pasta with fish Better than Italy. Very compliment To "THE CHEF" and to MANAGER Cristian for the treatment. Thank You!

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Review:  The prices were extraordinarily high (even for South Beach), the portions were tiny, the waitstaff was amazingly rude, the manager did not care at all when we spoke with him.  Go to one of the restaurants on Lincoln Road.  You'll have a much better time!

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Review:  My lady friend graciously invited me to dinner on Friday night.  A while back she had the risotto at Café Milano and it was on her mind.  She raved how it was the best.  I planned on ordering the Lasagna Alla Bolognese.  I had that there about 5 years ago with their special meat sauce & bechamel-it was incredible.  In fact, I had it there often but then the last few times they drastically cut the portion of the order so I stopped going there.  So, we looked forward to a good dinner but when we get there no risotto on the menu!  In fact, no meat lasagna - just a spinach based lasagna.  Now I know their dinner menu on the net is much bigger, with the risotto listed at $17.  But the waitress, after discussing with the manager, says they can prepare the basic risotto for $27.  That sounded outrageously high & we briefly considered leaving-& should have.

However, we made the best of a bad situation.  My friend ordered the basic risotto and I ordered a simple pizza.  Can't go wrong with pizza, right?  Wrong!  The pizza resembled a very small french bread but with a paper thin crust and a miniscule amount of cheese & sauce.  It was gone in a few bites!  I know South Beach is not known for great pizza and I am spoiled by NYC & Chicago pizza, but some places in SoBE at least give you a nice 10" personal pizza for $12.95 or less.  Not a tiny super thin bread loaf with a light topping - LOL!  Okay, my friend asked me if I wanted to order another but, honestly, it wasn't that good and it would have taken 3 orders to fill me.  But I was fine with the one order, dunking lots of house bread in the olive oil, sharing a mixed greens salad, and tasting some of her risotto. 

The risotto you ask?  My friend liked it but $27 seems a bit outrageous for a simple rice dish, doesn't it?  I mean, it's not like they had anything expensive in there like lobster! 

Despite all that, I had a good dinner but only because the company I was with is very nice.  Milano's is very overpriced and not very accommodating.  Plus their very own website is misleading!

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Review:  Me and my wife were walking down Ocean Drive looking for a nice Italian restaurant and decided to go to Caffe Milano's.  No regrets.  The service was excellent and the food was great.  The ambiance was superb. We were sitting outside with a nice breeze and we even saw some celebrities passing by while dining.

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Review:  Can't believe that I came from Italy and after a week, looking 4 a just fine pasta I found Caffe Milano!!!  Friendly service and real home-made pasta!!! Everybody should try it!

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Review:  Agreed with first review.  poor service, not going back.

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Review:  I was in Miami and was attracted by the facade of the restaurant. It went downhill from there. I was dining by myself and I was treated as if I was a pariah by the wait staff.  Food was just thrown down at me, I was not offered water and even the opportunity to order a second drink or dessert. The food was ok, but for the price, definitely not anything special. The icing on the cake was the 17 % gratuity automatically added to the bill.  I find this extremely rude. I always leave 20%+ but at this establishment I crossed out the 17% and left 5% which was being kind. Would not return!!