Niu Kitchen

A Downtown Miami restaurant from chef Deme Lomas — a tight, ambitious Spanish-Catalan room running modern tapas-and-larger-format cooking that's earned Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition. The handmade croquetas, the rotating menu drawn from Lomas's Catalan training, the bright cocktail and wine programs. Less institutional than Niu's Spanish-restaurant peers in larger US cities, more about establishing modern Catalan dining as a serious Miami category. For modern Spanish cooking in a Downtown corridor more known for office-tower steakhouses.