Going for Gold at Miami Beach's Most Extra New Restaurant
The Lincoln Road newcomer serves caviar on bananas and enough gilt to blind a tourist
Oro is what happens when someone decides Miami needs more gold. Not a little more gold. Not a tasteful accent of gold. ALL the gold. Every surface that could be painted, plated, or dipped in the stuff has been given the Midas treatment at this new Lincoln Road spot.
Is it worth the hype? Yes, if you're prepared to spend some serious money. Oro manages to pull off something most Miami restaurants can't: it's actually as extra as it looks. The golden escalator (yes, escalator) carries you up to a 15,000-square-foot dining room where chef Victor Muñoz is doing legitimately wild stuff with the menu while servers in golden outfits glide between tables.
The Space: You enter through golden arches that would make McDonald's jealous, then ride that escalator to a dining room that looks like someone melted down Fort Knox. The retractable roof opens to let in Miami's perfect weather, and somehow the millennial pink accents keep all that gold from feel…
