In fact, South Florida already had over 200 Peruvian restaurants when I last counted, as La Mar was opening. cities (including San Francisco), Peruvian cuisine is nothing new here. After working with Acurio in Peru, he opened La Mar Cebicheria Peruana in San Francisco with him, then came to Miami to open our own version of La Mar. He was invited to visit Acurio's restaurant the next day, and pretty much never left. In an Edible South Florida piece last year, I recounted Diego's introduction to Acurio as a nervous 16 year old peeking around the corner of a supermarket aisle. At Miami's La Mar, the executive chef responsibilities fall to Diego Oka. But Acurio has literally dozens of restaurants around the world he's clearly not cooking in all of them at the same time. It was big news when Gaston Acurio – Peru's most famous and celebrated chef – decided to open a restaurant in Miami.
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These dishes are presented in the order I ate them (this first batch is pretty Japan-intensive) you can see a full set of pictures in my Best Dishes of 2014 flickr set. This may have been as good a year for Miami's food scene as there has been in the five years since I started writing this blog. Several new restaurants have quickly become favorites, a new generation of young talent is starting to emerge, and established chefs have added to their repertoires. In between all of that, my hometown Miami has had a great year too. A brief Chicago jaunt in October served up a couple of my best meals of the year.
Then the summer included a quick return to New York as well as visits to Toronto, Boston, Maine and Quebec. over spring break provided a good excuse to visit Los Angeles for the first time in ages. The next month, college visits for Frod Jr. F and I celebrated our twentieth anniversary with a two-week trip to Japan that was every bit as thrilling as I had hoped, and then some. 2014 started with a snowed-in fairy tale of a weekend in New York City. (You can see all the dishes in my Best Dishes of 2014 flickr set). Jeremiah and I happened to be in NYC at the same time in June, and lucked into a last-minute seating at Atera – which was one of the best meals I had all year. This set also includes a few great new additions to the Miami restaurant landscape – BlackBrick, Zak the Baker and Niu Kitchen – and some outstanding one-off dishes from the increasingly deep pool of local talent, including Jeremiah Bullfrog, Timon Balloo, Brad Kilgore, Conor Hanlon and Giorgio Rapicavoli. But I'll say this: there's some good eating there. I've never spent much time in LA and never particularly wanted to – I've always envisioned it as embodying some of Miami's worst features, on steroids. during his spring break for a quick college tour. Part 2 here starts in Los Angeles, where I took Frod Jr. The end of Part 1 coincided with the last days of our two week, twentieth anniversary trip to Japan. Picking up where we left off in our Best Dishes of 2014 – Part 1, here are the next twenty. Also, in typical Japanese fashion, a rice bowl (studded with bamboo shoots), pickles (eggplant and kombu), and soup (corn miso with slivers of daikon radish and leek). So what's inside? This day: a battera roll of madai (sea bream) and pickled kombu with fried canistel (a/k/a eggfruit) tender braised pork jowl with mustard and miso, with boniato, white asparagus and local green beans house-made jackfruit seed tofu topped with Hokkaido uni, with junsai (a/k/a water shield, a sort of slippery aquatic plant) a bit of Maine lobster with avocado and pea shoots grilled black-bellied rosefish (a local deepwater fish in the scorpionfish family) with key lime the same fish in a different preparation, simmered, with roasted eggplant and okra sashimi of snowy grouper with komochi kombu (herring roe that have been laid on seaweed) and delightfully sticky aori ika (big fin squid) pressed with nori. It's unpacked to reveal six compartments, each stocked with several different items – similar in style and quality to the elaborate bento that starts a meal at Naoe. Bento Box – N by Naoe (Brickell Key, Miami) ( read my thoughts and see all my pictures from N by Naoe)Ī few minutes after you're seated, a three-tiered bento box is brought to your table.
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