Miami Restaurants

  1. Café Prima Pasta

    We're not sure what's better at this Argentine-Italian place: the much-touted pasta, which deserves every one of the accolades heaped on it (try the gnocchi), or the atmosphere, which captures the dignified sexiness of Buenos Aires. Actually, it's no contest: you're the winner, as long as you eat here.

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  2. El Rey Del Chivito

    Heart, meet the 'King of Chivitos' and his signature dish: a sandwich of steak, ham, cheese, fried eggs and mayonnaise (there may have been lettuce, peppers and tomatoes too, but the other ingredients just laughed at them). Now run, heart, run away! That's just the basic, by the way, and it comes with fries.

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  3. Graziano's

    Anglos love to argue over who does the best South American steak in Miami, but among Argentines the general consensus is this very traditional parilla, located on a strip of gas stations on Bird Rd. Everything is plucked out of Buenos Aires: the quebracho wood on the grill, Argentine customers and, most of all, racks of lomo (steak), sweetbreads and blood sausage, gristly bits beloved by portenos (Buenos Aires natives), which are tough to find in more Yankee-friendly establishments.

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  4. La Moon

    Nothing - and we're not necessarily saying this in a good way - soaks up the beer like a Colombian hot dog topped with eggs and potato sticks. Or fried pork belly and pudding. These delicacies (further proof that South Americans are totally on to something or have completely different culinary DNA from the rest of us) are the preferred food and drink of Miami's 24-hour party people, and the best place to find this wicked fare is 24-hour La Moon, in stumbling distance of the Transit Lounge.

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  5. La Perrada De Edgar

    Back in the day, Colombia's most (in)famous export to Miami was cocaine. But seriously, what's powder got on La Perrada and its kookily delicious hot dogs, devised by some Dr Evil of the frankfurter world. Don't believe us? Try an especial, topped with plums, pineapple and whipped cream. How about shrimp and potato sticks? Apparently, these are normal hot dog toppings in Colombia.

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  7. Porção

    What is it with South Americans and meat? We like beef, but this is a butcher with a grill, an all-you-can-eat Brazilian churrascaria (steakhouse) where the waiters wander around with swords - swords! - of skewered, juicy, fat-dribbling…actually, come here with that skirt steak, Sergio.

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