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For a while there, when Michy's, Michael's, Fratelli Lyon, North One 10, Pacific Time 2 and Red Light were all newish news, it looked as though Miami was on its way to becoming a cool food town -- the sort with a community of chefs who open restaurants that reflect their vision, and that, taken together, form a gastronomic montage of the tastes and cultures of the city.
But at this point, it appears to have been just a temporary surge by a group of brave and seasoned chefs. Miami's cur
Miami New Times archives November 2 - 8, 1988.That shrimp in a chefs hat is trademarked.​Dick Cami opened Cami's Seashells in 1986. That budget seafood house is the blueprint for upscale-casual-cheap seafood chains in South Florida that have been a mainstay ever since. But before Cami's Seashells there was Peppermint Club, the legendary NYC and Miami rock and roll clubs famous for the twist, that were also opened by Dick Cami. Additionally, Dick Cami is responsible for the hilariously named Cr
