"Miami has every right to be sick of out-of-town Italian restaurants with reputations for impossible reservations, over-the-top interiors, and famous noodles. Mother Wolf is absolutely one of those restaurants, but the food makes this LA import more palatable than the rest. Even though the Roman menu isn’t unanimously excellent, you can easily build a great meal out of bread and pasta. Get la mortazza, a folded-in-half pizza with a bouquet of mortadella and a smear of ricotta inside. If you can tolerate a $58 pasta, the excellent spaghettini ai ricci di mare comes with a glob of uni on top and enough cultured butter to make each individual noodle shine. Mother Wolf has the kind of reputation and wallpaper to guarantee this place will be slammed through snowbird season. So if you're very curious, try to get in now. " - mariana trabanino, ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo
