Sergio F.
Yelp
The foundational theory of Yelp is that the events give us a taste and introduction to cool new restaurants in Miami. Most recent this was the case with Momento by Ikaro! I attended an Elite event there for Hot & New in Miami week. There had been a few meatier items that were not at the event but caught my eye on the regular menu. So when a friend who's visiting wanted to go to dinner somewhere nice downtown, we ended up at Ikaro! Located in the redeveloped space of a bar - and a historic venue itself - and two blocks from Club Space, it's a great spot to start of a Miami date night.
The menu is seafood heavy, but there are some yummy meat centric plates. Although we passed on boozy libations tonight, the mocktail mojito I enjoyed was well blended and a good citrus forward flavor. Next for the appetizers, I ordered and enjoyed the plantain pieces served with pico as well as a creamy peanut sauce. Yes you can actually taste the different ingredients! The roasted potato slices were pretty good as well.
Now on to the yummy meat: their short rib dish, with a side of quinoa, is meat lover's heaven. You have a nice stack of tender, fall off the bone short rib marinated and drenched in a bbq sauce. But it is not the regular grocery store one. This one is based with tamarillo fruit, which gives it a constant play between sweet, tangy and smokey. My companion and I closed this with their Lotus Biscoff cheesecake. This was a tasty caramel and cream layered over to gentrify the famous cookies from American Airlines :) The graham cracker taste mixed with the sweet is delicious.
Service was very attentive through the evening, even though we were the last seating. Some of the staff remembered me from the Elite event and were as always pleasant.