Why Miami Needs More New York Restaurants
How else would we know about magical tap water?
Much has been made of the influx of New York City restaurants coming to Miami, opening in prime neighborhoods and showing us why $48 is a perfectly reasonable price for a dish my mom used to call “Noodles and Classico.”
And on behalf of everyone in Miami, I want to offer these fine, venture capital-backed “hospitality groups” a heartfelt Thank You for bringing Miami’s food scene into the big leagues. Without you, we’d still be eating out of dumpsters.
Ok, maybe not dumpsters. But before every New York restaurant Eater ever put on a Heatmap opened here, our food scene was basically Palatka without the Waffle House.
The Miami Food Dark Ages – aka Pre-New York
Until New York blessed us with its culinary mastery, the greatest contribution we’d made to the food world was a ham sandwich. A ham sandwich, I might add, that was invented in Tampa. Which left Miami’s major culinary achievement as cocaine. Which, say what you will, tastes pretty awful.
The bes…
