Kaori Miami

Kaori pairs elevated dining upstairs with a listening bar downstairs that fuses Japanese design, vinyl culture, and craft cocktails into one of Miami’s most unique experiences. On the eats side, the Asian-inspired menu is both artful and indulgent, with standout dishes like Wagyu and foie gras gyoza and bluefin tuna sashimi layered with inventive flavors. […]

Katsuya Brickell

At Katsuya, sea urchin, toro, jumbo clams, and kanpachi are a few of two dozen à la carte sushi and sashimi offerings. A platter of the latter might bring two to three pieces each of a half-dozen fish: velvety dark bigeye tuna, small squares of salmon, thin fillets of yellowtail and halibut, slices of hokki […]

Komodo

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Miami Beach’s China Grill was the place to see and be seen. Paparazzi swarmed the restaurant for snaps of the city’s heavy hitters like Sly Stallone and other former Star Island residents. Fast-forward to today, and China Grill honcho Jeffrey Chodorow partnered with David Grutman, the mind behind […]

La Centrale

Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts. Your flight to Florence via Capri, Sicily, and Rome is about to depart. That’s what a visit to La Centrale, the three-level food hall celebrating all things Italian, simulates. On the first floor, choose from Italian pastries such as cannoli and torta della nonna. Perhaps more to […]

La Sandwicherie Brickell

Since this French-owned eatery began selling sandwiches, salads, smoothies, and shakes in 1988, a crowd has lingered along the lengthy counter at the flagship location that extends up an alley off 14th Street between Washington and Collins Avenues in South Beach. The food is fine, but the funky alfresco charm accounts for a large part […]

LouLou Le Petit Bistro

Words such as organic, local, and sustainable are plastered on the shop window and menus — and the greens used in salads certainly appear to be — but the food here seems lost in another time and place. This is especially true of the entr

Ludo’s

True Italian cuisine from Rome, as this cozy trattoria’s menu touts, it is not. Virtually none of that city’s most famed and/or unique specialties is among the fairly generic list of offerings (beef and salmon carpaccios, tiramisu, et cetera). But for those who want to eat what Romans do, homemade ravioli di ricotta e spinaci […]