"It’s hard to pin down the food at this small restaurant on Ponce—a place where Japanese flavors and modernist cuisine meet. It’s easier to say who this food is for: people who create scrapbooks from restaurant menus and get excited about espumas. If you’re one of those people, come here for the $150 tasting menu, one of Miami’s most exciting ones. It’s an eight-course meal full of totally unique dishes like tuna cut into noodles, dry-aged squab with its leg stretched out like a can-can dancer, and a truffled cheese starfish you have to drown in fluffy foam to enjoy. It’s all visually mesmerizing, but Kojin also backs it up with incredible textures and flavors. They have a la carte options as well, but some of those dishes are hit or miss, so come here ready for the full tasting menu experience." - virginia otazo, ryan pfeffer