Digest Miami Miami has no shortage of beautiful new restaurants. Over the past several years, we’ve watched increasingly ambitious hospitality groups arrive from New York, London, Los Angeles and Dubai, often bringing with them famous chefs, extraordinary interiors and the kind of opening budgets that would have been unimaginable here a decade ago. Much of that growth has been good for the city. Miami is finally being taken seriously as one of America’s great dining destinations. However it feels like something has been lost along the way.
Spend enough nights eating around Miami and you begin to recognize a certain sameness: enormous hospitality machines and spectacular rooms designed to photograph beautifully, but food and service that feel largely disconnected from the place itself.
Our recent dinner at Semilla French Bistro & Wine Bar reminded me how much we need the alternative.
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