Walrus Rodeo
Restaurant · Miami
5143 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33137
Highlights
Wood-fired pizzas, creative vegetable dishes, and unique wines
Wood-fired pizzas, creative vegetable dishes, and unique wines
"The dishes at Walrus make you look up from your plate and exchange wide-eyed smirks with your dinner date. Food is fun here, and it's the restaurant to prioritize if life’s been one big blur of hamachi crudos lately. Get a seat at the chef’s counter and watch the kitchen produce steak au poivre, charbroiled oysters, and bone marrow out of a wood-fired pizza oven like it’s a magical Easy-Bake Oven. The restaurant matches that beautiful, chaotic energy with a tin ceiling that echoes conversations to the point where you barely notice the epic dad rock playlist in the background." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino
"Walk into Walrus Rodeo, and you’ll see a wood-fired oven, charred lasagna, fluffy pizzas, and perhaps a hanger steak. Context clues would lead one to believe that this is a place to order flame-kissed proteins and dough. That’s only half true. Walrus Rodeo’s most underrated superpower is vegetables. They excel at making them delicious. If the crunchy, herbaceous chicory salad doesn’t convince you, try the romano beans covered in spicy breadcrumbs that’s doing a pitch-perfect impression of a caesar salad. The salads get tweaked often, but the respect they’re given remains at a level similar to a nervous 15-year-old meeting his girlfriend’s huge father for the first time." - virginia otazo, ryan pfeffer
"Boia De’s sister restaurant (and next-door neighbor) can sometimes be a hard reservation—but it's much easier than Boia De. On any given winter night, you’ll see more Yankees caps at Walrus Rodeo than inside Jay Z’s closet. Luckily, Miami is a town of fair-weather fans (sports teams not excluded), which means all those hats and their northeastern owners are off in Nantucket or the Hamptons for the summer. This is your chance to try Walrus Rodeo’s lasagna, pizza, and whatever else these brilliant souls are shoving into their pizza oven." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino
"Like a person who trains for a marathon two weeks before the race, Walrus Rodeo gave itself a tough task when it opened: to cook everything in the wood-pizza oven it inherited. But it finally feels like this undefinable restaurant has mastered its unusual setup. Now, it’s consistently pumping out unexpectedly amazing dishes. There are fluffy, charred pizzas—and they are perfect—but you’ll also encounter tremendous rotating vegetables, a phenomenal crispy lasagna, and more fire-kissed things pulled straight from the beautiful brains of one of Miami’s most imaginative kitchens." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino
"Walrus Rodeo does not consider itself a pizzeria (it even says so on their website, business cards, and matchbooks). But you should order at least one pizza. Options rotate, but the rodeo za is usually on the menu and a favorite. The white pickled anchovies on top are more vinegary than salty. They’re interspersed between sweet shallots and hidden under a generous flurry of breadcrumbs. The pizza is brushed with maple butter. The resulting slice pops with spicy tomatoes and ends with a slightly sweet crust." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino
