ANA Capri Miami Lakes Restaurant

ANA Capri Miami Lakes Restaurant sits on Miami Lakes Drive East, in the same eastern stretch of town that holds Italy Today and NQC Craft Beer & Grub a short distance away near NW 151st Street. Directory categorization identifies it as a family style restaurant, and its name, referencing Capri, the Italian island known for its cuisine and scenery, signals an Italian dining concept built around shared, family-style plates rather than individually portioned entrees.

Directory data shows the restaurant with roughly ten years in operation, placing its opening around the mid-2010s, and lists it in the $$ price range, positioning it as a moderate, accessible option rather than either a budget quick-service spot or an upscale formal dining destination. Family style Italian restaurants, where dishes are served in shareable portions at the center of the table, have long been a staple format for Italian-American restaurants aiming to recreate a home-cooking, communal dining atmosphere, and ANA Capri’s categorization suggests it follows that same tradition.

Italian cuisine has an established presence across Miami Lakes’ various commercial corridors, and ANA Capri joins Italy Today nearby on the same stretch of Miami Lakes Drive East, along with La Strega Cucina Italiana & Steakhouse and a trattoria on the western side of Miami Lakes Drive, and Domenico’s further north, giving the town a genuinely wide spread of independent Italian dining options across several different corridors rather than a single concentrated Italian restaurant row.

The restaurant’s positioning on the quieter, more residential-adjacent eastern stretch of Miami Lakes Drive suggests it primarily serves nearby residents looking for a family dinner out, consistent with the family style categorization, rather than functioning as a destination restaurant drawing visitors from across Miami-Dade County.

Specific current hours, a detailed menu, and ownership background for ANA Capri were not independently verifiable beyond directory listings and categorization. Anyone planning a visit, particularly for a larger family gathering given the family-style format, should call ahead to confirm current hours and to ask about the format of shared dishes before making the trip to this stretch of Miami Lakes Drive East.

Family style dining in particular tends to work best for larger groups or multi-generational visits, since it lets a table order a spread of dishes to share rather than requiring each diner to settle on one individual entree, a format well suited to the kind of extended-family dinners common within Miami Lakes’ Latin American and Italian-American households alike. That structural fit between the restaurant’s format and the community it serves is likely part of what has kept ANA Capri operating on this stretch of Miami Lakes Drive East.