Japanese in Miami New Times
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If you live in or frequent South Miami, you’ve seen Akashi. It’s that small Japanese joint nestled a block from the Shops at Sunset Place and adorned with two large graphics of a koi and a baby-like geisha. According to the restaurant’s website, other than being a city in Japan renowned for its seafood, akashi means […]
Located at Dadeland Mall.
Bay Harbor Islands’ Asia Bay Bistro & Sushi Bar boasts nouvelle Asian cuisine, but apart from the sushi, it’s really a traditional Japanese restaurant with some token Thai tossed in for good measure. The sushi bar visually dominates the room, and its fare occupies quite a bit of the menu – to the tune of […]
Long before every other Miami restaurant was a New York transplant, Tribeca-based Azabu opened an outpost at the Stanton Hotel in Miami Beach. The sleek restaurant, with origins in the Azabu District of Tokyo, comprises three areas: a lounge offering more than 40 different whiskeys, the main dining room, and a hidden room called “the […]
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Late-night noodles, cocktails, and lively vibes are in store at Baby Jane. At this Asian-inspired Brickell hotspot, you’re welcome to sip cocktails and hang until the wee hours. Adorned by a bright neon light that says, “I’ll have what she’s having,” the intimate space is outfitted with booths that line the sides of the bar, […]
Benihana is the perfect place for diners who want a strip of steak cooked exactly as desired. Because everything is prepared on an open grill at the center of each table by a hibachi chef, patrons can make specific requests in real time. Still, it’s not really about the standard Japanese cuisine so much as […]
Located in South Beach, Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill serves a menu packed with traditional vegetable rolls that can be difficult to find amid Miami Beach’s cacophony of sushi spots. One roll is loaded with threads of loamy enoki mushrooms. Another wraps rice and seaweed paper around crunchy matchsticks of burdock root that taste […]
The menu at this sleek, nightclub-like sushi spot is considerably more limited than that at Manhattan’s original Bond Street, but many aficionados consider chef Hiroshi Nakahara’s artfully plated sushi, sashimi, and hot or cold small plates the most sophisticated and solidly creative Japanese restaurant fare in town. Bond Street’s specialties rely on imaginative yet admirably […]
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You’re forgiven if you didn’t know about the hidden dining room in the back of Hachidori Ramen Bar in Little River. It was planned as a sake den, but owner Guillermo Paniza offered the space to Culinary Institute of America grads Pedro and Katherine Mederos during the pandemic. The spouses (Pedro handles the savory while […]
Here on the Miami River, Masaharu Morimoto disciple Shuji Hiyakawa offers a brief list of concisely prepared dishes alongside an impressive array of sushi including many distinctly Japanese options, such as sea bream, golden eye snapper, and vinegar-cured mackerel, which have become the benchmark for any sushi place that hopes to be taken seriously. Yet […]
Once you step inside Dragonfly, the third location for the Gainesville-based ownership group, it’s easy to see why the place is packed even at 10 p.m. There’s a veritable wonderland of Asian bric-a-brac. A regiment of gilded cats stands guard over the open kitchen, the creatures’ unflinching eyes gazing across the space. A vintage pachinko […]
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“Enso is an evolutionary solutions workshop which creates the scientific study of deliciousness.” So begins the insanely inventive, thoroughly audacious menu at this new sushi/hibachi/Mediterranean deconstructionist establishment on Lincoln Road. Each of a dozen main courses is categorized as “Study,” “Analysis,” or “Inspiration”; some come fragmented into four. Yellowtail, for instance, brings hamachi meatballs; a […]
Navigating Gabose’s expansive, meandering menu, with its myriad Korean titles, food photos, and strange-sounding offerings, is only slightly less challenging than pronouncing the place’s name. Rather than be intimidated, just read the descriptions, point to the numbers, and await your authentic, delectable, spunky, sparkling-fresh, and well-priced Korean cuisine. An accessible entry point is tangsuyuk – […]