Marisquería Como Como

The newest restaurant at the Moxy Miami South Beach offers a taste of a modern Mexican marisquería, minus the trip to Tulum. At Como Como — a play on the Spanish term for “how I eat” — it’s not just about what you order, but how it’s prepared. Here, watching your meal as it’s cooked is part of the experience. It begins at the “barra cruda,” a monolithic, rough-cut stone in the middle of the dining room where raw-bar offerings are displayed and served with a Mexican twist. From the open kitchen, watch as a copper-and-wrought-iron fuego (fire station) smokes whole fish over a wood-burning grill. Behind the bar, a “tequila tree” sculpture of blown-glass spheres and copper pipes transports the tequila that winds up in one of Como Como’s cocktails. Tableside presentations only add to the show, whether it’s the traditional caesar salad (a dish born in Tijuana) tossed before your eyes or a hand-chopped tartar de pescado prepared with the fresh fish of the day.