Andiamo! Restaurant Review:
Andiamo shares a building with a long-established car wash that found a little space to accommodate this warm and inviting pizza spot off Biscayne Boulevard. Downtown office workers make Andiamo a hot lunchtime destination where they can sit comfortably at an outside patio shaded by trees and enjoy a bay breeze while biting into an entrée salad, panino or pizza with a thin but substantial...
Where there was a neighborhood car wash, gentrification guru Mark Soyka (News Café, Van Dyke) saw brick-oven pizza. Somebody else might have shut down the suds to start baking pies. But not Soyka, who understood there's no better way to wait for your Genovese than while your ride's getting shined.
Brick oven pizzas in a casual setting will bring out your inner New Yorker.:
In Short
Whether it's the throwback allure of the covered outdoor dining area, the convenience of having an adjacent car wash to kill two birds with one stone, or the authentic appeal of...
Leave it to visionary Mark Soyka (News Cafe, Van Dyke Cafe, Soyka) to turn a retro-style 1960s carwash into one of the city's best pizza places. The brick-oven pizzas are to die for, whether you choose the simple Andiamo pie (tomato sauce, mozzarella, and basil) or the designer combos of pancetta and caramelized onions; hot and sweet sausage with broccoli rabe; or portobello mushrooms with...