Pizza, Pasta and Miami's Best Garlic Rolls
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- 1989: A Culinary Survivor
Marcella Aitken's Italian restaurant in North Miami was a beloved neighborhood dining-out spot for decades. Her garlic rolls were legendary, and Marcella, working her tables and supervising her kitchen, was a Miami icon, made famous by distinctive commercials on local television.
Aitken, who immigrated to the United States from Italy, was a Miami newsmaker, known for raising basil, oregano and tomatoes in her back yard long before the local food movement. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Miami's "pasta queen" branched out, selling frozen Italian meals to Eastern Airlines and other big clients.
Marcella was on her way to becoming "the Italian equivalent of Colonel Sanders" when Eastern folded. And when this WTVJ clip aired in 1989 Marcella was back where she started -- in the kitchen and dining room of the restaurant that bore her name.
This Bob Mayer story includes a generous clip from one of Marcella's early commercials (don't miss her three-wheeled Mobile Kitchen!), an interview with Marcella, and good reviews from satisfied customers.
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Am 71 now and have never had a better pizza & crust, garlic rolls and spaghetti. She had it down to a science. My second favorite was the sausage pizza at the Bottle Cap Inn in N Miami.
Best Garlic Rolls ever!! By Gregg L. Friedman MD
Marcella passed away in 2003 after moving to Spokane, WA. to be near family. The Marcella's restaurant building shown in the news clip survives...as a flag shop and Haitian market. I live close by to it. Marcella remains well remembered by many in the North Miami area ... even today. Rick Ferrer (North Miami, FL)
Marcellas had the best eggplant parmesan in the entire city. My friend Frank Lake worked there as a cook. Marcella taught him everything, all her recipes. There's one thing she would not share though and that was how to make her pizza sauce, which was what made those pizza's so good. Frank said she woke up at 5am every morning to make 2 giant pots of that pizza sauce. I remember him telling me when she passed she took that sauce recipe to her grave. To this day Marcella's pizza is the best pizza I ever ate!
Interesting how neighborhoods change. I remember a strong Italian influence in North Miami and NMB growing up in the 80s.
It's all Haitian now they destroyed North Miami
Best food ever! The garlic rolls, pizza, baked pasta! We used to go there until we moved in 1975
I remember going there even when I was just a toddler. My family lived in Fort Lauderdale and would make the occasional trip down to North Miami just to go to Marcella's. At one point my mother had brought her from out of town sister there for her first time. When garlic rolls were brought to the table, she tried one and commented, "Oh, what precious rolls". Now I can't make a 100% positive claim that she named them, but the next time we went to the restaurant, the menu had the garlic rolls listed with the name, "Precious Rolls".
Wow! That's a great memory!
We had a neighborhood Marcella's on 183rd St, NW 7th Ave in the Norwood area. We never called it "Miami Gardens Dr." After football games, Miami Norland players, coaches, cheerleaders and parents would go there for pizza. One of the best memories ever of a time long ago. Norland Class of '68. Go Vikings!
My family and I ate here religiously in the seventies, Those garlic rolls...OH MY GOD! I still think of them to this day and I never had another like it since then...Mario The Bakers was a close second! I miss that sweet woman! I miss those days!
I worked at Marcella's on 139th Street & Dixie Hwy as a busboy back in the 1950's. I remember before this she had a small kitchen in a bar across the street, next to Rex's Sundries. Her husband then was a little Italian guy who brought hr from Italy to N, Miami, Fla. I remember Marcella being "stacked" up top, for a boy 14, that meant a lot. I also ate so many of her garlic rolls that I got fatter, my best bud was "The Grease". Next door was Wrights' 5 & 10. Remember?
MY DAD HAD WRIGHT'S 5&10 NEXT DOOR AND YOU COULD SMELL THE GOOD FOOD SEEPING THROUGH THE WALLS.THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I TRIED PIZZA AND I WAS 14!
I lived in Miami Shores in the seventies. When my parents went out, they would give me a 20 and tell me to buy what I wanted. I used to order a large cheese pizza, garlic rolls, and two Cokes, and I ate it all.
This place brings memories - Great food!!
Does anyone remember the restaurant called "Mia Cusina" or something like that , Marcella had next to the "Marcella Restaurant" in the 60's? It was a scale up from the original, had no menu, and the food was selected for you? She had added a patio, garden for special events. You see I met Marcella when I was 9 years old, my mother was Mercy, her personal hair stylist. So many memories!!!!
The best Italian food around. The restaurant in Pembroke Pines that bears her name is nothing like the originals.
simple food that was soo soo good the roles just a hint of garlic poweder and enough salt to make you taste every flavor perfectly ah I love this place, love the people the honestly the beauty that we somehow could achieve something like this and be happy living all together... what happened to those times?
richie mianmi
The far reaching greedy globalists happened. They were active way back then, but it wasn't so obvious. Today we are REALLY seeing the poisoned fruits of their labors.
Is Marcella's still in business in Miami,Fl.?
Unfortunately, Marcella's is no longer in business.
Does anyone know if she is still in business, or if the original building still stand?
Marcella passed away in 2003 after moving to Spokane, Wa. to be near family. The Marcella's restaurant building shown in the news clip survives...as a flag shop and Haitian market. I live close by to it. Marcella remains well remembered by many in the North Miami area ... even today. Rick Ferrer (North Miami, FL)
THATS SHARON WRIGHT MINIUM NOT LORI!