Azul Restaurant Review
Mandarin Oriental, Miami
500 Brickell Key Dr. (Brickell Ave.) 
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Miami, FL 33131
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Cuisine
Open
Dinner Mon.-Sat.Features
- View
- Romantic setting
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking
- Casual dressy
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 Since the Mandarin Oriental, Miami hotel is located on prestigious Brickell Key, it is not surprising that its high-end restaurant, Azul, offers unparalleled vistas of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline through floor-to-ceiling picture windows. Many sophisticated diners, however, find the view of the place’s extensive raw bar just as spectacular. When Azul's former executive chef Clay Conley departed in 2010, diners were definitely a bit wary, since the New England transplant, whose creative, complex American fare was also strongly inspired by Asian and Mediterranean flavors, arguably shaped Azul's culinary identity even more definitively than original chef Michelle Bernstein. Fortunately, current executive chef Joel Huff has a similarly strong background in both Asian and Mediterranean cuisines, plus solid technique (cutting edge chef José Andrés was a mentor). So old Azul signatures like A Study in Tuna (raw tuna plus crab meat, tempura avocado, and caviar with varied Asian sauces) or the Moroccan lamb trio (harissa-marinated loin, shank in a layered pastry b’stilla, and grilled chop with pepper salad) remain on the menu. What's new: more use of Florida fish (as in yogurt-marinated local swordfish with a crispy pita and heirloom tomato salad, brown butter cashews, lobster and mint), and additional Spanish and Latin-inspired dishes. Sommelier Cynthia Betancourt's wine list remains comprehensive and inspired.
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