Great food, great service, and a classic Miami experience!…read more Graziano's on Bird Road never disappoints. The food was excellent, especially the meats--everything was cooked perfectly and packed with flavor. The portions are generous, so definitely come hungry! The service was also on point. Everyone was friendly, attentive, and made us feel welcome without constantly hovering over the table. I really love the atmosphere here too. It has that classic Argentine steakhouse feel--warm, comfortable, a little upscale, but still very Miami. You can see and smell the grill going, and it really adds to the whole experience. Overall, Graziano's Bird Road is a great spot for a family dinner, date night, or celebrating with friends. Good food, good service, great atmosphere. Definitely a place I'll keep coming back to!

I ate at Grazianos with 5 family member last night July 23rd…read more The good: Atmosphere: sophisticated, intimate, and very beautifully laid out. The venue is a great place for an intimate dinner for 2 or family celebration for 8+. Service: Smart, friendly, attentive, and professional. Food: We had appetizers empanadas, meatballs, and sausage. Which were fine. We all ate different main entrees from filet mignon to flank and sirloin steaks. The sirloin was under cooked and had to be sent back but otherwise everyone loves their food. Dessert was a bit disappointing. The crème brûlée was apparently Argentinian style, more heavy and thick, with a heavy egg flavor and not sweet. The almond ice cream was good but again nothing to write home about. Overall a solid 4 The Bad: This is not a $$ restaurant. It is a solid $$$ and frankly arguably $$$$. When ur entrees average between $49-$75ur not a $$. I paid for dinner and picked Graciano's based on Yelp's recommendation and that it was a $$ restaurant. About $600 for six people when we shared 3 appetizers and 3 family member did't eat dessert is not $$. So if u come here know that u will spend some significant money. Is it worth it? I see Grazianos as a place i could go to periodically once a year or special occasions but unless you are wealthy probably not on a regular basis.

May was amazing my dirty martinis were delicious her recommendation was spot on her personality…read moremade it that much better glad to have found my new lunch spot

Chef Adrianne's Vineyard is in a class of its own for Kendall. It is truly fine dining in an…read moreelegant, but not overly opulent setting that is absolutely perfect for those special occasions when you seek a perfect experience, whether it be for a celebration or a quiet evening out with family, friends, or someone special whom you love. Admittedly I have only been here a couple of times, but they wow me each and every visit. And with all of the choices in Miami, that is not easy to do. Tonight we came by to celebrate a career milestone. Just me, my wife, and my very well behaved service animal, who reluctantly stayed under the table where she is supposed to be despite the temptation of all the wonderful smells in the room. Huge call out to our waitress Amanda. What a superstar. She made us feel important every second of the meal. Her service was perfect, but her attitude and her smile represented the restaurant well. She is an asset that I hope that they treasure as much as we did. Being Miami Spice time, I ordered from that menu and chose the reserve menu's crispy spicy tuna, appetizer, ribeye steak, and Belgian chocolate brownie. My wife chose the pasta Bolognese. I also ordered the Parker house pull apart bread and a potato since the full course meal did not seem to come with a side which I found strange. The appetizer was mouthwatering good. The Belgian chocolate brownie was exceptional. However, I would be disingenuous if I said that I chose wisely with the main course. Being a 16 ounce steak, it was sliced relatively thin as expected, but what they refer to as an "au jus" seem to have the taste of a reduction and literally drowned out the flavor of the meat. It did appear to be cooked perfectly, but having had the exceptional filet mignon here I would be more likely to choose that again next time. It also came with a glass of wine, which they graciously upgraded for me based on my tastes, which really smooth out the meal for me. I always enjoy the bread here and the loaded baked potato was quite a sight to see and was so large. I took home half of it. Interestingly, the highlight of the meal may have been the Papardelle Bolognese. This was a very generous order of what is probably the best Bolognese pasta dish I have ever eaten. My wife has a small appetite, so I was happy to help her out. I was also happy that enough was left that I had it for lunch the next day and liked it just as much. So if this is something you like, do not skip right past it on the menu. It is superb. The only other criticism I have is that they do have a posted dress code, which is not particularly restrictive, but does help to maintain the ambience of elegance. Part of that is no ball caps. I understand they do not want to embarrass patrons by asking them to remove their ball caps, but the table sitting next to us had two men wearing them. It does take away from the vibe, so when you visi, even if the restaurant staff is not going to embarrass you and ask you to remove them, please try to observe these very easy to follow guidelines so that we may all have that wonderful fine dining experience. And si, despite the fact that I was not completely thrilled with my steak, in all honesty I cannot give this restaurant anything less than five stars. Yes in the end it's all about the food, but this was really not a case of the food not being good, it just was not served in a way that I like it. I will still be back and most likely will order the filet mignon or the short rib, which is what I've had on prior visits and both were exceptional. Or perhaps that wonderful Bolognese. I love this place and highly recommend it.

The lomo saltado is exquisite!! The sauce, the rice, the meat, everything is good…read more The desserts are delicious too, try the dulce de leche dessert! Service was great and super quick. 100% recommend!

I absolutely loved the food here and we had a wonderful time. Wish the servers were more attentive…read morethough, just because it's a big party does not mean we need 40 mins of waiting for us to order dinner after our appetizers. I love the inside and the llamas everywhere, very clean and very nice Happy hour from ends at 7

Absolutely love this Italian spot for lunch during work! The $26 lunches special is incredible…read morevalue. Love their bread/garlic butter, vodka penne, spinach and ricotta ravioli, and dulce de leche crepe. Nice ambiance too for the Kendall area. Service is very attentive.

If I was writing this review about only the bread and water service then it would be 5 stars across…read morethe board, because that's all we received for the first 35 minutes of our dinner. We dined here on Saturday night. We were running a few minutes late, but within their accepted window. The hostess told me that was fine. Upon arrival, the hostess said it would be 10-15 minutes before our table was ready. I noted there was an available table by the entrance, and she said we could sit there now instead if we liked. I said that's fine, as long as won't be forgotten/ignored. She insisted it would be fine. At 5 minutes we received bread and water. The gentleman said he was not our server, but one would be here shortly. And then at 10 minutes nothing. 15 minutes went by and I flagged the guy that gave us water and asked if we could have a server. He said of course and apologized. At 20 minutes we went back to the hostess stand to inquire why no server had seen us. She offered us a table in front of the bar instead, which essentially set the clock back to zero. A couple minutes later the guy with the water came by with more water and bread, but we just wanted to order. It took 10 minutes from being seated before we finally saw a server, which if you're keeping score is a total of, yep, 30 minutes. At this point I was over being hungry and had lost my appetite. Ordinarily I would have walked out from the experience at the first table, but my man was still hungry and I was not about to starve this amazing human being because of my principals. Hubs ordered a cocktail and we placed our dinner order finally. We both opted for the Miami Spice. I went with the crab cake for the appetizer, and branzino for my main. My man did did the pumpkin soup and paella. It's a personal pet peeve when the food shows up before cocktails, as I think they really help open the appetite, and honestly make everything taste better. After about 10 minutes our appetizers showed up yet no cocktail in sight. Finally it arrived and it was so strong it was impossible to drink. In our 20s we would have been thrilled at the booziness. In our 40s? Not so much. We each tried another sip after it had watered down, and even then it still packed a Kool-Aid man punch and we struggled to make a dent in it. Now the food here is actually really good if judging based on taste alone. The pumpkin soup was exquisite, and my crab cake was delicious! I loved the guava aioli. Alas, a great meal is more than a combination of ingredients. The preparation is also key. And this was lacking. The crab cake looked like it had been pan-fried perfectly, but instead the outside was a soggy disappointing mess. My bet is they either: 1. Batch make and reheat these, likely in a microwave 2. Messed up another order and gave me one that had been laying around for awhile, or 3. Rinse it under water before serving for some bizarro reason When the entrees came out there was literally steam coming from hubby's paella. It was fresh and ready! And omg, it was perfection on the tongue! My branzino? Le sigh. The fish was excellently prepared. The mashed potatoes? COLD. Veggies? About the same. I guess they made mine and left it sitting while the shrimp paella and fish finished up. These details are what makes a meal excellent, and it's disappointing to see so many things neglected in a place that otherwise executes really flavorful and creative food. This meal could have easily been 5 stars if it wasn't for these lackadaisical oversights. We rounded out the dinner on an upswing at least. I had the Crêpe Caribeño and my Mr opted for the Tres Guayaba. The crêpe was filled with coconut and dulce de leche, with a brulée finish on top, and a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream. It was decadent but surprisingly not overly sweet. The Tres Guayaba was saccharine sweet for me but my man loved it! Now, this place had already left a bad taste in my mouth. But what made it even worse was the next day I went to have my leftovers (half of the branzino and mash/veg. I took 3 bites and on the 4th somehow managed to find the largest thick fish bone that lodged up and stabbed deep into my gums in the fleshy spot behind the two front teeth. It took 3 tries to yank this sucker out. Idk how such a big bone got missed by their kitchen. I am lucky I didn't swallow that because it absolutely would have been an ER visit. That shit was traumatic.

Great Japanese restaurant in south miami, for a very authentic dinner opt to sit upstairs where you…read moresit in a Japanese style table low to the ground on cushions. The service was great, fast, and attentive. They have a huge selection of sake to choose from and the food was also good. The sushi rolls were delicious and the ramen was definitely worth going back for.

All time favorite sushi spot! Never misses! The entire Shibui team is amazing. Excellent service…read moreevery time. Love this place!!!

Too expensive for no reason. $150 for a board that only came with a few small pieces of meat, and…read morethey weren't even that good. They also charge you $12 for the water they bring to the table at the beginning without you even asking for it.

I'll start with service -- it was very good. Loved Marlon. He was very attentive. In fact, many of…read morethem were because many of them were checking on us, making sure we had all we needed. Food was mediocre -- we had croquetas, tostones rellenos, and all three of us had NY Strip steak which was good (not great), but all else, including the sides were nothing to brag about, at all. Fries seemed to be packaged frozen fries, and my veggies although they tasted good, some were cold and others just sort of warm. Ambiance was a bit boring, and supposed dress code was not adhered to. We looked into Show details which starts at 10pm with a minimum consumption of $125 pp (previous reservations required, which is fine), so you have to either drink a lot and order expensive bottles. In my opinion, the place does not merit the prices of neither food or liquor. I have no plans of going back. Miami has too much to choose from to go back to a place where I cannot check all my boxes.

I have been to North Italia many times in my family. The food is always delicious…read more However, the service has always been very slow, and last visit which was yesterday, Saturday, 10/24 was no exception. The food was served over 45 minutes after we ordered. Mind you, our reservation was at 5:30 PM when the restaurant is completely empty and it was not that busy so there should not have been such a long delay for the food. Our server was very nice and polite, but it was hard to find her when we needed her as she would disappear for long periods of time. The other negative about this restaurant is how dark it is. I understand, setting the mood and the vibe, but it is so dark that you can barely see your food. And I know that the lights are on a timer, but it needs to be updated with the time changes and definitely made a bit brighter. The small candles on the tables are not enough lighting. The photos I took of the interior of the restaurant was when I arrived at 5:30 PM and it was still daylight outside. However, the photos of the food had to be taken with flash and with someone else shining their flashlight from their phone on it.

Me and my bf came for a quick lunch and we saw they had a miami spice menu and got very excited!…read more Our server, Ashley, was very nice and attentive, the music was a bit strange and all over the place honestly, I remember my boyfriend asking "I wonder who's on aux" lol. Food was coming out pretty fast until it came to our entrees we started with the meatballs which were unfortunately room temperature, but still good. The burrata was spectacular though. Our entrees took a little while, not super long, just a while considering it wasn't super busy. I ordered the spicy vodka pasta and my boyfriend ordered the chicken parm with pesto on the side, he hates pesto but I wanted to try it, our server was great about putting sauces on the side on our appetizer so I'm not sure what happened but! It did unfortunately have pesto on it, and the chicken was burnt and dry too we took a single bite him and I just to see if it was still good to eat but it was just too dry, the manager comes by after we tell the waitress about this. His name was Rob I believe and seemed a bit nervous, but he told us there was a takeout order that got the same thing so it would be out in two minutes. Then the waitress says they're making a whole new fresh one... we're like okay, very hospitable honestly I won't take it away from them, as I work in the industry as well. The manager even says "we will make sure it's not burnt this time" when I tell you the second chicken photo is what we got back, I couldn't help but laugh. The chicken looked like it had maybe just gotten the burnt bits cut off, the pasta was definitely just the same one as before as you can tell by the garnish still being on there from before, so we basically paid to have them burn our food, play with it a bit, and return it to us with less food . Anyway dessert was good, honestly on the fence on if I'd return because in theory everything was great up until this chicken situation.

Over priced; 1) it was an event and not only there was an admitting fee but because we shared a…read moretable with people we do not even came with, we got charged 20% service fee (note that everybody got that 20%). Later we found that the server listed us as a party of 8. 2) the server asked us for a tip because according to him the service charge does not include the tip. 3) there is an additional 3% charge when you pay with a credit card. So, for us, two people, on a total of $107.00 we ended paying $155.89 plus $3.85 for using the card. Total $159.74. More than 50% of the actual consumption.

I had the best experience at fresh Florida fisheries. This weekend I was set to make tuna ceviche…read morefor a family party and was looking for a place to get fresh tuna at a reasonable price. Enter fresh Florida fisheries I popped in on Saturday morning and was immediately impressed how fresh all of the seafood looked and how organized it was basically you order at the counter. The staff is super knowledgeable and they will prep your fish for you however you like. Then they give you a number for your order when you pay, and then you wait for your number to be called. I knew I was looking for for tuna, and my eyes definitely wandered at the selection of fish! The person who helped me was super friendly, suggested the amount that I should be ordering for the party size and was able to clean the fish for me. I also thought that the price was super reasonable for fresh locally caught tuna it was 2499 a pound I got a little bit under 3 pounds for just around $70 and it was incredible. I will definitely be back to explore more of the seafood options that they have. Fish is something that I love to eat, but don't often buy from a grocery store because I get a little weirded out at the quality. Knowing that this is so close to my house with high-quality fish for a great price will make me a returning customer for sure. Parking is pretty chill and easy in their front lot and I'm sure you can park down the street if it's a really busy day. Will be back.

My first visit here and I sort of wish I'd read the other reviews before I came here. If so, I…read morewould have come at a time where I was hungry and for a mere five dollars had them prepare my meal for me. But that being said, I found it to be a very nice fish market. Now there is a huge downside that you immediately encounter when you arrive. The parking lot is exceptionally small and people are parked every which way, except in the spaces. Getting to the actual building will take some time. The neighboring lots have pretty clear signs that they will tell you if you park there. So you're stuck dealing with what it is. The fish variety is good, although not great. If you're looking for strictly local fish, you'll probably find what you want. Several varieties of snapper and the fish looked wonderful and fresh. Some of my favorites like hogfish and grouper. You can buy the whole fish and they'll fillet it for you or you can buy fillets if they have them of the fish that you want. But the part I missed is having them cook it for me. Now that is something I would like to try next time The downside is they strictly local fish. You won't find any flatfish and I was surprised that they did not have any U4 or U6 shrimp which I like to use to make paella. In addition, I did not see fresh scallops. They did have some nice lobster tails although I did not see other shellfish. Some people have said the prices are reasonable; I found them about 20 to 30% higher than other fish markets I visit. The people here are really nice in the market is attractive. I will be back as I said to get a meal cooked for me in part because it is closer than the fish markets I usually visit and also my curiosity after reading other reviews. I recommend this market if you have the patience to wait for a parking space. If you're looking for the larger shrimp for paella look elsewhere