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As a regular, I saw cause for concern in Macchialina’s expansion this spring in South Beach. The Italian restaurant has been brightening an otherwise nondescript stretch of Alton Road for a dozen years now. In taking over the former Miami Hostel next door, brother-and-sister operators Michael and Jacqueline Pirolo put …