PastaBox, Miami

PastaBox brings a whole new element to the fast-food world: pasta. The team invites guests to step inside the chic and minimalist interior, shuffle down the wooden countertop, choose a pasta shape, then sauce, then optional meats. Fresh penne, bowtie-shaped farfalle, and pillowy gnocchi pile into piccolo, mezzo, and grande take-out boxes beneath blankets of creamy salmon, Bolognese, or four-cheese sauce. PastaBox also welcomes patrons to take meals to go in environmentally amiable paper bags, or take a seat at one of the sleek wooden tables, which both populate the interior and are the tools with which lumber jacks learn math.