This FL Eatery Among Best New Restaurants In America, New List Says

A Miami eatery is among the best new restaurants in America, Esquire said in a report Monday.

In its report, Esquire said the 33 restaurants on the list offer “spectacular food … coupled with a damn good time.”

“These are the places you hate to leave, but when you do, you leave full,” the outlet said. “Full of some of the most deeply personal food you can remember eating, full of joy and ideas and hope. You stumble out, way past your bedtime, practically dancing in the street.”

Restaurants on the list are found in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

The Florida eatery to make the list is Sunny’s in Miami.

Sunny’s being “the kind of party you never want to leave is a testament to restaurateurs Will Thompson and Carey Hynes. The pair has reconfigured an old roof-tile factory into a brash, thirteen-thousand-square-foot stunner," according to the Esquire listing for the restaurant.

"Like the room, dishes simultaneously express maximalism and delicacy. In the belly of a clam-shell platter: octopus ceviche with grapefruit, cucumber, and peanuts, as pleasing as a sonata. On each tentacle of a pewter octopus: tiny kouign-amann ice cream sandos. And, oh, the steaks. Leave the $258 Wagyu porterhouse to the valet-parking cologne mongers and find satisfaction instead in a thirty-nine-dollar ten-ounce hanger steak, perfectly charred and brightened by salsa verde. Eat it in the shade of the old banyan tree as another ice-cold martini arrives."