FLORIDA NEWSWIRE (NAPLES, Fla.) — Naples Flatbread Kitchen & Bar has launched a top-to-bottom reinvention of its menu on Monday, September 14 at Miromar Outlets – the heart of a rebrand built on one promise – seriously Italian, never serious. Guests have taken to calling it “the fun Italian,” and the family-run restaurant is happy to wear it: authentic Italian ingredients, none of the formality.
THE NEW MENU LEADS WITH
Italian Tacos
– warm piadina folded around fillings like limoncello shrimp and Grandpa Vinny’s meatballs with ricotta alongside
La Mortazza
– the restaurant’s take on the mortadella-and-stracciatella pizza currently sweeping Rome and Bologna;
Three Little Pigs
– a ham-pepperoni-pancetta pie finished with hot honey; and scratch pastas like
Pasta e Piselli
– Grandmas original peas and macaroni with pancetta recipe
The kitchen’s foundation stays proudly serious: San Marzano DOP tomatoes, a proprietary high-gluten/Caputo 00 flour blend, and a 700-degree hearth oven.
Beyond the plate, the restaurant leans into what already makes it one of the area’s more unusual rooms:
– Southwest Florida’s original 54-tap self-pour wall with beer, cider, botanicals, meads, and cocktails poured by the ounce
– a guest-controlled jukebox, and
– a dog-friendly patio that now gets its own Pup Menu, headlined by an 8-ounce “Wagyu Woofer.”
The reinvention arrives as the restaurant enters its 18th year at Miromar Outlets – eighteen years of refusing to sit still. When Naples Flatbread opened in February 2009, the menu was a modest lineup of paninis, pizzas, flatbreads, and a handful of pastas, served with beer and wine only. Since then the concept has never stopped evolving – a full bar, then the self-pour tap wall, interior remodels every four to five years, and now a menu rebuilt top to bottom.
The food menu is only the first act. A reinvented drink menu follows close behind, led by “Italia, Poured” – an all-Italian cocktail section – and a barrel program crowned by the Starlight Mizunara Reserve, a bourbon finished in rare Japanese Mizunara oak that was named Best Overall Bourbon at the 2025 World Spirits Competition. A rebuilt weekend brunch arrives in October. Email subscribers get early access Sept 14-17; a public launch party follows in early October, with jukebox happy hour, tap-wall specials, and the dog patio in full swing.
Naples Flatbread Kitchen & Bar | Miromar Outlets, Estero | https://naplesflatbread.com/ | @naplesflatbread
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