This longtime Miami standout—it opened on Lincoln Road in 1993 and was a benchmark there until 2007—has reopened in an airy setting in the Design District that is hip but unpretentious. The food is still fresh as ever and the bar and drinks superb. The dinner menu has 20 inexpensive small plates, including local black grouper with red curry. Entrées include a pan-seared salt-and-pepper skate wing served over a bed of celery root with lemon butter and green apple. Try sitting in the courtyard, a pleasing lunch spot for blue-cheese burgers or tasty shrimp po' boys served on focaccia. (Note: Pacific Time is a convenient backup if you can't get a reservation at Michael's Genuine, one of the city's most popular restaurants; it's a short block away.)
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