Tullio Earns a 9.3 From the Torbrook Rating Agency

Tullio has been rated 9.3 out of 10 by the Torbrook Rating Agency, TNN’s business review desk. It trades from 160 Andalusia Avenue in Coral Gables, steps from Miracle Mile, on (786) 707-8978.

It is named for Tullio Zanon, described by the restaurant as its founders’ father and grandfather, a Venetian known in his trade as the jeweller of seafood, whose name the restaurant says still echoes through the stalls of the Rialto fish market. The kitchen’s Mediterranean focus and its habit of finishing dishes tableside in the Venetian manner both come from that inheritance, and the room is furnished to match — Murano glass, scenes of Italy, white linen, fresh flowers, and glassware chosen by wine style. The covered terrace sits beneath the historic arches of 2525 Ponce de Leon and gives the restaurant year-round outdoor service.

The Zanon name recurs a few blocks away at Portosole on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, owned by Lucio Zanon, a Venetian with more than twenty years at Harry’s Bar. Coral Gables has two Venetian Italian restaurants within walking distance carrying the same family name, which says something about how deep the trade runs.

What earns this score, though, is that Tullio is the most completely documented restaurant in either of these two series. Almost every question a guest could ask before arriving has already been answered in writing.

The hours are published in full: open every day, Monday to Friday from midday to 9:45 p.m., Saturday from 1:00 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Two fixed-price menus carry their figures on the front of the site — a $29 business lunch Monday to Friday, and a $60 business dinner on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Reservations run through OpenTable or by telephone, and the restaurant states that a booking is always recommended rather than implying it.

The dress code is business casual, with flip flops, athletic wear and beachwear specifically named as not preferred. The parking instructions are given door to door: park in the restaurant’s own building, entrance on Andalusia immediately past the restaurant on the right, take the lift, walk through the lobby and come in via the side entrance. That paragraph is worth more to a first-time guest in Coral Gables than any amount of atmosphere copy.

The corkage terms are stated with their arithmetic: $50 for wine, $60 for Champagne, one 750ml bottle permitted per four guests. And the restaurant does something almost nobody does — it publishes the entry price of its own wine list, stating that it carries hundreds of labels with pricing starting at $40. A guest who wants to know whether they can drink here without a three-figure commitment has been told before they sit down.

The bar goes further still. The restaurant publishes that there is a full bar and that if there is a particular spirit a guest wants, they should ask Sebastiano and it will be on the list the following day. Naming the individual who will do it converts a vague promise of accommodation into an accountable one.

The restaurant also publishes a long list of recognitions: Miami New Times Best Italian Restaurant 2025; Coral Gables Best Fine Dining 2024; Coral Gables Magazine Best Italian 2024 and Best Romantic 2025; a Great Wines America’s Tour 2024 award; Gambero Rosso Top Italian Restaurants 2024/2025; recognitions from the Accademia della Cucina Italiana and the International Wine and Food Society in 2025; and inclusion in a book by the Italian Consul. Those are reported here as the restaurant’s own claims and excluded from the score, in line with Agency practice on self-listed honours — they are unlinked and uncited on the page, and a rating desk verifies or it does not count.

The deductions are three, and they are all the more visible because the rest of the file is so complete.

The first is a dangling date. The $60 business dinner is advertised as available “until Dec 1st” with no year attached. A reader in the spring cannot tell whether that refers to a deadline already passed or one still months away, and the whole value of publishing a fixed-price offer is that the reader can act on it.

The second is that the à la carte prices are not published. This is a restaurant that will tell you the corkage fee, the wine-list floor and both fixed-price menus, and then leaves the main card blank. The gap is small in absolute terms and conspicuous in context.

The third is an address that needs one clarifying sentence. The site gives the restaurant’s address as 160 Andalusia Avenue and separately places its terrace beneath the arches of 2525 Ponce de Leon. Both are almost certainly true of the same corner building, but a visitor reading both is entitled to be confused, and one line would fix it.

In category terms, Coral Gables is thick with Italian restaurants and the competition is largely on food and room. Tullio has chosen to compete on certainty — telling guests the price of lunch, the price of dinner, where to park, what to wear, what corkage costs and what the cheapest bottle is. That is a different offer, it is unusually respectful of the customer, and it is much harder for a competitor to copy than a menu.

Three changes would move this score. Adding a year to the business-dinner date, or removing it, would make an already excellent offer actionable. Publishing the à la carte prices would complete a price list that is otherwise the most thorough in this series. And citing or linking the awards would let a reader — and a rating desk — treat them as evidence rather than as claims.

A 9.3 out of 10 from the Torbrook Rating Agency reflects a family-named Venetian kitchen that has documented its terms more completely than any other restaurant assessed in this series, marked down for an undated offer, an unpriced main menu and an address that needs a sentence of explanation.