‘Iconic’ Casadonna Announced At Miami Woman’s Club

Dave Grutman’s Groot Hospitality and Tao Hospitality Group have announced that they will open a restaurant called Casadonna at the historic Miami Woman’s Club this summer, according to Bloomberg and Eater.

Tao co-founder Noah Tepperberg told Bloomberg that “from day one our idea was to do something iconic.”

The venue will have 366 seats, with indoor and outdoor space on the bayfront.

The name itself is a merger of the words for “house of the woman” in Italian. The menu will be “Riviera Italian,” with a modern presentation of dishes from Naples, Taormina, Bari, Positano, and Gaeta.

The Miami Woman’s Club (spelled as the Miami Women’s Club by the two media outlets, but as Miami Woman’s Club on official records) was built in 1930, according to county records. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Casadonna designer Ken Fulk told Bloomberg that it is a “grande dame of a building.”

The theme of the new restaurant will be “old Hollywood glamour comes to modern day Miami,” Fulk said.

The kitchen is expected to remain open until midnight or 11PM on weekdays, and until 1 AM on weekends, but Grutman says he expects guests will stay even later than that.

Opening is expected in June or July.

 

Photos of the historic building from 2013:

(photos: Phillip Pessar)

 

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Anon
8 months ago

So happy this building was saved, knowing how many on this site would prefer for it to be demo’d for a 30-story stucco box

Melo is sigma and Chad
8 months ago

its still operated by the original owners

Anon
8 months ago

Cool, not sure how that’s relevant but cool!

Anonymous
8 months ago

I went to school here when it was the International Fine Arts College in the 90’s. I have a fondness for this jewel of a building. It’s great that it’s going to be restored and utilized in a reverential way. Bravo!

Anonymous
8 months ago

Hope to see more restoration projects like this of historical buildings – very exquisite!

Anonymous
8 months ago

LOVE old Hollywood glamour style in Miami. This is going to be a hot spot!

Anon
8 months ago

This isn’t “old Hollywood glamour style”. This is Miamis authentic architectural vernacular.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Agree, like the iconic Miami interiors of the Birdcage film, but the article says the theme is “old Hollywood glamour comes to modern day Miami.” Old Hollywood fuses well with classic Miami.

James
8 months ago

Bring your Amex Black

anonymous
8 months ago

you meant sugar daddy…

Anonymous
8 months ago

We should restore churches into beautiful venues like this one!

Anonymous
8 months ago

Like the one on Brickell Avenue that was bought by the developer. It would be a cool nighclub restaurant, like Limelight.

Anonymous
8 months ago

The church is to remain… they sold the parking lot behind

Fact Checker
8 months ago

The church wasn’t bought by the developer. Just the attached school and open area behind the church.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Thanks for clarifying. I saw a different report in a media journal.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Ft. Lauderdale has a really cool club in an abandoned Church.

Anonymous
8 months ago

It also has a cinema club in another near the courthouse, but you know… Fort Lauderdale might as well not exist on this blog according to some.

peej
8 months ago

The Angeles failed as a nightclub due to its location, but they’re now booking concerts there instead. Really fun spot!

Anonymous
8 months ago

This area desperately needs more restaurants. This is a good start.

rainey411
8 months ago

Looks like everything else both these groups pump out so Im sure itll be fine and busy

Miami4Life
8 months ago

Unless it turns out like Grutman’s triple failure at the Firestone building on the beach lolol

Melo is sigma and Chad
8 months ago

Beautiful with amazing views

Casey
8 months ago

So it shares the sand building as Klaw?

Anon
8 months ago

Would be nice to include a few pictures of the building…..

Anon
8 months ago

A public park / plaza in front of this building connecting it to the never-going-to-be-finished-bay walk would be nice

BDub
8 months ago

That part of the bay walk has been open a couple years. It connects Margaret Pace Park to the piers at the hotels to the Venetian.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Hope they’re able to control the increasing issue of mentally unstable vagrants that tend to camp out right behind the terrace on the ground floor. That would certainly not make for a nice dinner.

transplant
8 months ago

This building is absolutely beautiful. Klaw is amazing and fits the charm of the building. But please, not another tacky, overrated Grutman restaurant in such an elegant building #tacky

Anonymous
8 months ago

International Fine Arts college was house in that building….great times amazing building.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Wow. This is truly beautiful!!!

Ex-Londoner resident in 33132
8 months ago

Am lucky to overlook the Miami Woman’s Club–am a member too and see the daily progress of the stunning Casadonna. Another gem in Miami.

Anonymous Hippo
8 months ago

🔥🔥🔥RE: (spelled as the Miami Women’s Club by the two media outlets, but as Miami Woman’s Club on official records)

Ladies Who Lunch
8 months ago

Who is this mysterious international woman of leisure?

Anonymous
8 months ago

Could use some balls

My Iconic post
8 months ago

women need Good Infill

Anon
8 months ago

Can’t wait for Groot to run all the hospitality and restaurants in this city. Drive all the poors out!

anon
8 months ago

is this satire

Anonymous
8 months ago

It’s still too bad the Ursine/Eastwood mansion at the Unity on the Bay site couldn’t have been saved for another restaurant space, either by relocating it to the north side of this park or incorporating it into the new development. Historic buildings can be moved, West Palm Beach moved one a further distance last Sunday.

Anonymous
8 months ago

No thanks. Keep historic buildings on the water where the ambiance can be appreciated and build up the water promenades. High rises can be setback and still have views overlooking them. It creates a more hospitable environment for adjacent higher density.

Melito
8 months ago

Just add some pics exterior decor and to make it pop even more!

AJ Reddy
8 months ago

Hope to DJ at the TAO once it’s open.

anon
8 months ago

play some bad bunny

Tondy
8 months ago

Good luck w parking

Woke-R-Us 🦒
8 months ago

Miami Women’s Club… it is ok to called that?
Birth-giving person is more appropriate for new generations 🤓

Woke-R-Us 🦒
8 months ago

Miami Oppressors’s Club🤭

Soup of Yesterday
8 months ago

Please take that pot stirring back to the kitchen, ma’am. Serve us something with substance and not more controversy from the left and the right. We are hungry for good vibes.

Anonymous
8 months ago

I though men could get pregnant too according to the current year.

Woke-R-Us 🦒
8 months ago

🫃🏻

anon
8 months ago

How many more italian/mediterranean restaurants do we need?

Anonymous
8 months ago

More and less croqueta carts.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Not exactly in the best location for this restaurant

Anonymous
8 months ago

Why? It’s within walking distance of thousands of condo units and counting.

Anonymous
8 months ago

I wish southern Brickell and Riverside had more historic revival projects like this, but maybe that’s 5 years away. I’m just thinking ahead.

Anon
8 months ago

It’s waterfront…? So….it kinda is

Azarius
8 months ago

I think they could still squeeze a condo building on the lot

Anon
8 months ago

Lol like I said, many on this site would prefer a stucco box here instead of this beautiful historic building

Anonymous
8 months ago

Those are just PR for big corporate developers. People love new glitz but they love historical revival and culture even more because it’s so rare.

Azarius
8 months ago

I WASN’T SAYING KNOCK THE WOMANS CLUB DOWN! I WAS STATING A BUILDING PREFERABLY A GLASS TOWER LIKE ECHO OR WHAT THEY ARE PROPOSING FOR THE CHURCH IN BRICKELL COULD HAVE BEEN BUILT AS WELL SMH

Anonymous
8 months ago

A crane would mysteriously fall on it like the last time a historic building in Edgewater was supposed to be preserved with redevelopment.

Anonymous
8 months ago

Sad, or maybe it will be buried under the ground to preserve it, and we can appreciate it throughs internet archives that we all visit on VR sets.