The Two Women Running the Most-Reviewed Restaurant in Buena Vista Are on Resy's Women of Food List

Boia De is in Buena Vista. It has 10,000 reviews on Resy and a 4.9 rating. It is run by two women — Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer — who trained in the kitchens of Scarpetta, the Scott Conant restaurant that set the standard for modern Italian in New York. Resy has placed Boia De on its Women of Food: Miami list. It is the most-reviewed restaurant on the platform's Top Rated list for Miami, and it is the most important restaurant in the city that most visitors have never been to.

The Women of Food list is Resy's editorial recognition of restaurants led by women — a list that the platform updates and promotes as part of its broader editorial identity. In Miami, the list includes Boia De alongside other women-led kitchens across the city. Boia De is the anchor entry: the restaurant with the most reviews, the highest rating, and the longest track record of the group.

Scarpetta is the restaurant where Scott Conant built his reputation on Italian cooking that was technically precise and emotionally direct — the spaghetti with tomato and basil that became one of the most written-about pasta dishes in New York. Giangrandi and Meyer trained there. Boia De is what they built with that foundation: a small, focused Italian restaurant in a neighborhood that most dining guides have never written about, with a menu that has earned 10,000 reviews at 4.9 stars.

The room is small. The menu changes. The pasta is the point. Boia De is at 5205 NE 2nd Ave, Buena Vista. Book through Resy — the 10,000 reviews mean the tables fill. The Women of Food list is the editorial context. The 4.9 rating is the proof.

The Women of Food: Miami list is a useful editorial lens on the city's dining scene. It surfaces restaurants that are doing serious work in neighborhoods that most guides overlook, led by chefs who have built their reputations through consistency rather than celebrity. Boia De is the most prominent entry, but the full list is worth reading as a map of where Miami's most interesting cooking is actually happening.