Although Miami is synonymous with sun, beach and shopping, the county in the United States
also has excellent gastronomy
.
Proof of this is that in 2022 the prestigious Michelin Stars guide was launched
in Miami
, which demonstrates the interest that the region is causing.
More and more
Argentine restaurants are getting on the recommended lists
.
Pablo Dagnino Pinasco -director of Chef's Hunter, a company that generates business for
international chefs and major brands
on three continents- provides a global vision of this trend.
“There is more and more confidence in Argentine chefs abroad, since
many Argentine restaurants entered the list of The World's 50 Best
.
And we cannot stop thinking about Mauro Colagreco, winner of Michelin Stars, who is a kind of ambassador of the country in other latitudes”.
With groups of between 15 and 20 people,
Miami Culinary Tours
have been running for 13 years.
Grace Della, Argentine and founder of the firm, says that the objective is to visit and learn what the different culinary communities in South Florida have to offer.
“As well as
the culture and tradition
of those who are in the kitchens,” she adds.
The specialist affirms that there are Argentine restaurants in many areas of the county, from
luxury offerings such
as Los Fuegos de Francis Mallman, at the Faena Hotel, to
proposals "more on the pace"
, where the dishes are based on Argentine food, sometimes in Fusion with Italian.
Della is associated with the Greater
Miami Conventions & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB)
, a non-profit organization whose mission is to attract visitors to Greater Miami and Miami Beach, where, she says, there is a
good opinion of Argentine chefs and restaurants.
Ten Argentinian restaurants in Miami
1. The Fires by Francis Mallmann
At Faena Hotel Miami.
The Fires by Francis Mallmann.
Part of the
Faena Hotel
offer , Francis Mallmann revisits, in a sophisticated environment, the
Argentine barbecue with the addition of vegetables cooked over high heat
.
The artichokes come out with sesame yogurt, sourdough breadcrumbs, toasted sesame seeds, and lemon preserve.
There are also dominoes and embers potatoes.
Other hits on the menu are the
empanadas baked in the wood oven, the milanesas de lomo
, the hamburgers with cheese and the Angus steak with chimichurri or criolla sauce.
On Sundays at noon there is "asado" made up of skirt steak, ribeye, lamb and chorizo.
Among the desserts, the silver touch is given by the
dulce de leche pancakes and the flan
.
Curiosity: Alan's salad (Faena), which (burrata, grated fresh carrots, roasted beets, avocado, hard-boiled eggs and honey dijon mustard).
Meats.
One of the strong points of Los Fuegos, in Miami.
3201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33140.
2. nine hundred
Homemade empanadas,
choripán, sweetbreads, black pudding and tenderloin "sánguche"
are part of the menu at Novecento, the most widespread chain of restaurants of Argentine origin in Miami, with four branches.
The facade of Novecento in Miami.
There is also
milanga (beef, chicken or aubergines)
, alone, on horseback, Swiss and Neapolitan style.
Plus 13 varieties of Malbec from Mendoza, Salta and Patagonia.
In drinks you can order the
Fernando (based on fernet)
, the beer appears on the menu as "birra" and between the infusions they serve mate.
Created by Héctor Rolotti from Córdoba, this chain named “Novecento”
in honor of the Bernardo Bertolucci film
, was born as a small ice cream parlor in New York's Soho and came to have 14 restaurants in 5 countries.
Pasta.
In Novecento Miami there is an Italian influence.
18831 N. Biscayne Blvd., Aventura.
1414 Brickell Avenue, Brickell.
620 Crandon Blvd. Key Biscayne.
CityPlace Doral, 3450 NW 83rd Ave.
3. The Cabrera
The Argentine restaurant chain
founded by the barbecue chef and chef Gastón Riveira
has just inaugurated a franchise in Miami that preserves its method of cooking grilled meats with charcoal and firewood.
Thus, the meat acquires a smoky flavor and a distinctive aroma.
A plus is the Josper charcoal oven,
which makes the most of the charcoal and does not dry out the food.
Sunny Isles.
The creation of Gastón Riveira in Miami.
The franchise recently obtained certification for the American market as partners of the Angus beef brand: Certified Angus Beef" (CAB) and Certified Angus Beef Prime, which qualify the meat offered to diners with a degree of exclusivity and quality. .
Casseroles.
Characteristics of La Cabrera, also in Miami.
As in all its places,
the cuts come with casseroles with varied accompaniments
: dried tomato pesto, coleslaw salad, mushroom with chimichurri, confit garlic, mustard foam, pear chutney, and corn creme brulee among many others.
17100 Collins Ave, Sunny Isles Beach
4. Graziano's
In 1962, Mario Graziano and his wife Maria arrived in the United States and
began selling barbecued steaks in an
open-air parking lot.
Then they managed to open their first store, on Bird Road, which began as just a market for Argentine products.
Also market.
Graziano's offer in Miami.
Today they have
six markets and four restaurants
(three of them in Miami) with a menu that proposes empanadas, provoleta, Argentine cuts of meat, pastas and Milanese, among other things.
In several dishes there is the denomination of origin, such as the
Patagonian red prawns with quebracho
;
the butcher's steak for two and the peceto milanesa from Logros Ranch (Río Segundo, Córdoba).
Pizza.
Arugula and prosciutto, also at Graziano's Miami.
In the letter there is a section that clarifies that
the meats come from animals that were never in "feed lots"
nor were they fattened with hormones or treated with antibiotics.
Among the desserts, the inevitable
pancakes with dulce de leche and vanilla flan stand out.
177 SW 7th St., Miami
394 Giralda Ave, Coral Gables
9227 Bird Road Miami
5. Fiorito
With
a soccer imprint,
Fiorito (by Diego Maradona's neighborhood of origin) opened in 2012 at the initiative of the brothers Maximiliano and Christian Álvarez (the chef).
In its albiceleste logo, the letters "i" and "o" are replaced by the number 10,
originally by Maradona and later updated with the image of Lionel Messi
, who even has a mural with his shirt outside the premises.
An Argentine style patio.
At the Fiorito restaurant in Miami.
They offer Argentine cuts of certified Angus beef, Italian food, and Spanish food.
Inside are
framed pictures of Maradona, soccer, and tango
.
Crispy sweetbreads,
suckling pig on bread, churrasco sandwich and cannelloni with mixed sauce
are the stars of the menu, along with the Rioja-style ribs and grilled sea bass.
There are also empanadas with corn and meat cut with a knife.
Messi.
And Maradona, inspiration for the Fiorito restaurant in Miami.
5555 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Miami
6. Premium Coffee Pasta
The Cea family restaurant combines traditional Italian dishes with others with an Argentine imprint.
His founder, Gerardo, supervises the operation of the bistro
specializing in homemade food
together with his brother Fabián.
The executive chef is his father, Arturo;
and her mother Carla is in charge of baking fresh breads and desserts every day.
Premium Coffee Pasta.
Specialized in homemade food in Miami.
They offer a happy hour (from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.) in which pasta with seafood and pasta with filet mignon and lobster tail are highly celebrated by diners.
From the traditional menu, the raviolini stuffed with figs and gorgonzola,
the risoto, the cornalitos, the fried zucchini and the fetuchini with
osso buco stand out .
In desserts,
strawberries with cream.
It has 140 covers plus a cellar with capacity for 32 people.
Celebrities such as Lionel Messi, Tini, Residente and Ricardo Darín visited it.
Fettuccine with osso buco.
Argentinian food at Café Prima Pasta, Miami.
4147 1st Street, Miami Beach
7. Tiger
Created by former model and
host Deborah de Corral -chef and owner-
, Tigre has a privileged view of the Little River, ideal for outdoor dining, and an "ingenious" menu that connects Miami and Buenos Aires.
Tigre's fritters in Miami.
The wine list has an Argentine imprint and among the most requested dishes there is a
entrail from Entre Ríos
with romesco sauce, grilled artichokes and chimichurri.
The former model and singer proposes
her own recipes for Milanese, flan with dulce de leche and chard fritters
.
The name "Tigre" refers to the area of Greater Buenos Aires where Déborah spent her entire childhood.
Deborah deCorral.
At Tigre Miami she created her own recipes.
Now, trained in gastronomy, she
revisits typically Argentine dishes
, "whether from still lifes or homemade", and also cooks "creations typical of someone who has lived in the United States for ten years."
620 NE 78th St, Miami.
8. Argentine Corner
Self-promoted as "the true taste of Argentina", this restaurant was created by the Italian-Argentine Miguel de Marziani and his family in 1987.
Roast on the spit
In Rincón Argentino, a restaurant in Miami.
With top quality cuts, Rincón Argentino has
barbecues that have nothing to envy ours
.
It attracts both our compatriots and Miami residents.
On the menu there is
roasted flag, empty, entrails with leather
, grill sausage, sweetbreads, black pudding and kidneys.
The barbecue is usually accompanied with sangria.
You can also order a variety of Milanese,
provoleta with oregano and Russian salad
.
Pancakes, bread pudding, flan, millefeuille and Balcarce dessert stand out among the desserts.
Meat.
Rincón Argentino assures that it is the true Argentine flavor in Miami.
2245 Douglas Rd, Miami
9. The Beer Bar
The creative factory of the Cocchia family boasts of having achieved "the perfect hamburger" but it could also do so for having
successfully inserted itself in the mecca of that specialty, in the American gastronomic industry.
Its highlights are the
large medallion of meat in cloud bread
, homemade toppings, pickles, crispy onion and bacon, more artisan ice creams and a local innovation: the Hot Dogs by La Birra Bar.
Also hot dogs.
La Birra Bar Miami, with a local innovation.
“When we already had several locations in Argentina, we traveled to visit close to 40 hamburger places in the United States.
We realized that our product was really at a better level
and we had very good chances of conquering this market", says Dani Cocchia -one of the three architects of La Birra Bar along with his wife Roxana and their son Renzo. His distinctive feature it is
handmade.
Honors.
La Birra Bar Miami won the award for the best hamburger in the United States,
The menu offers
30 varieties of hamburgers
such as the Criolla (bell, onion, roasted tomatoes and provoleta);
Wisconsin (special onion, cheddar and butter) and Roadside (onions and bacon reduced with beer and dijon mustard).
The “golden” won the 2022
Best Burger in America award
at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.
14831 Biscayne Blvd. North Miami Beach
10. Lilikoi
In South Beach, this restaurant that
is defined as "Organic living"
was created by Manuel Torterola and his wife Tina, sommelier.
Born in Argentina and trained in restaurants such as Dominga, Bar Uriarte and Gran Bar Danzón, he also went through The Fat Duck, (London), Spago The Wolfgang Puck (Hawaii) and Bilson (Australia).
organic.
The offer of the Lilikoi restaurant in Miami.
Herb-based dishes include
chimichurri bean stew
, vegan nachos (avocado, black beans, salsa criolla, and lime), carbonara with smoked coconut, bacon, and caramelized onion, coconut shrimp curry, buckwheat ramen, and mushroom risotto.
vegan.
The hamburger from the Lilikoi Miami restaurant.
500 South Pointe Dr 180, Miami Beach
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