Nineteen years after debuting his first South Florida restaurant, Angelo Elia, one of the area's most celebrated chefs, is finally opening a location in Miami-Dade. Italian-born Elia will bring his fine-dining Casa D'Angelo restaurant to Aventura Park Square this summer. The elegant, 5,600-square-foot space will feature an open kitchen, a bar, an outdoor patio, and an indoor dining room with the restaurant's vast award-winning wine collection incorporated into the decor.

Elia, who hosted this year's inaugural Greater Fort Lauderdale Food & Wine Festival, said the philosophy behind the Aventura location will be the same as at his other venues in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and the Bahamas, with new items created specifically for this new restaurant.