Inside ZZ’s Sushi Bar, the Latest Stunner from Major Food Group | Eater Miami

"I visited the two-story spot at 151 NE 41st Street in the Miami Design District, a hybrid of the group's ZZ’s Clam Bar and a sushi-and-private-members club that centers on a custom-marble sushi counter overseen by chefs Masa Ito and Kevin Kim, who earned a Michelin star at New York’s Sushi Zo. The modern Japanese menu mixes raw and cooked dishes and features the largest offering of wagyu beef in the United States—served in everything from wagyu katsu sandwiches with truffles to steaks cooked over custom-built charcoal grills—alongside ZZ’s favorites like toast topped with trout roe and honey and a carpaccio of tuna, foie, uni, and scallop, plus Miami-specific dishes such as lobster dumplings, crispy snapper, and a stone crab cucumber salad. Pastry chef Stephanie Prida provides desserts like Japanese ice cream sandwiches, chocolate matcha bombs, and key lime pie. Designer Ken Fulk's interiors pair curving bentwood banquettes with a malachite finish, teal cheetah-print rugs, antique furnishings, brass palm pendant lights, and vintage clamshell chairs on the ground floor and a "tiki bar on acid" patio with wicker banana-leaf seating, while upstairs channels '80s disco with custom banquettes, fringed stools, metallic leather, animal prints, rose-gold shattered mirror, velvet, and neon. Longtime bartender Thomas Waugh handles drinks, including the upstairs Pistachio Cocktail (gin, honey, lemon) and dining-room Japanese-inspired takes like the Dashi Martini, Hojicha Old Fashioned, and a Japanese Rum Highball. ZZ’s Sushi Bar is open Tuesday through Sunday from 5 p.m. to midnight." - Olee Fowler