Rosemary's Miami, the garden-filled Italian restaurant that New York hospitality group Casa Nela planted in Wynwood, has closed after roughly a year and a half in business. The 7,000-square-foot restaurant at 322 NW 25th Street opened in early 2025 and built its identity around an outdoor garden stocked with greens, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, but that identity wasn't enough to keep the doors open through the summer of 2026.
No explanation for the closure has been given, according to the Miami Herald, which first reported the shutdown. The paper notes that Rosemary's answering service, Google, and Yelp had all confirmed the closing, even without a public statement from the restaurant itself explaining why it was walking away from the space.
The Wynwood location was built on what had been a former shoe warehouse and empty lot, transformed into what founder Carlos Suarez described as a low-key but high-quality dining destination. Suarez, who grew up in Coral Gables in the 1990s before building his hospitality career in New York, said at the time of the 2025 opening that Rosemary's could distinguish itself from competitors by leaning into local sourcing and growing its own produce.
A New York Concept Rooted in Local Soil
Rosemary's first opened in Manhattan's West Village before expanding to the East Village, Midtown, and even Tokyo, according to the restaurant's website. The Miami outpost was Casa Nela's attempt to translate that rustic, garden-driven Italian concept south, hiring Miami chef Craig Giunta — previously of Macchialina, Concours Club and Mother Wolf — to fuse Florida produce into the New York menu, as reported by MIAbites.
To pull off its signature garden program without Manhattan's rooftop farm, the Wynwood location partnered with Miami's Little River Cooperative and sourced from local farms including Tiny Farm, Borek Farms and Swank Specialty Produce, per Miami New Times. The restaurant gave special attention to pasta dishes and seafood, and the space itself — designed by New York-based Dekar Design, which handles all seven Casa Nela concepts — featured a Tuscan villa-inspired courtyard built around that same garden, according to Modern Luxury.
Another Casualty in a Rough Stretch for Wynwood Dining
The closure lands in the middle of a difficult period for Wynwood's restaurant and retail scene. Direct retail vacancy in the neighborhood climbed to 14.8% in the fourth quarter of 2025, with asking rents along prime corridors reaching $70 to more than $100 per square foot annually, according to a report from DWNTWN Realty Advisors.
Rosemary's Miami is far from the only casualty. Rotisserie favorite Le Chick shut down after nine years in business, a closure Hoodline covered in its piece on Le Chick's shutdown after nearly a decade, while long-running venue Gramps also announced a closure amid triple-net rents that owners say have compressed margins, per The Real Deal. Outdoor market Smorgasburg left its Wynwood lot altogether after its landlord moved to redevelop the property into luxury condos, relocating to Fort Lauderdale.
Rising Property Values Reshape the Neighborhood
The pressure on restaurant operators has coincided with eye-popping property deals along Wynwood's central dining streets. In July, investor Moishe Mana paid $24.5 million — roughly $1,850 per square foot — for the building housing New York import Pastis on NW 26th Street, a transaction that underscored how valuable the blocks around 25th and 26th Streets have become.
Miami's tourism boom had made the city an attractive target for New York hospitality brands in the first place. Miami-Dade County drew more than 28 million visitors who spent over $22 billion in 2024, according to Career Group Companies, numbers that helped fuel a wave of out-of-state restaurant groups betting on South Florida as an extension of their home markets.
Rosemary's Miami had aimed to prove that a great dining experience didn't need to be expensive or flashy to succeed, leaning on its garden, its local farm partnerships, and its Coral Gables-raised founder's ties to the city. Instead, it becomes the latest large-footprint concept to find that Wynwood's rising rents, shifting nightlife habits, and push toward high-density residential development can undercut even a well-capitalized restaurant with deep local roots.
