Rating: Sakura Japanese Restaurant 440 South Dixie Hwy. Coral Gables, FL 33146 305-665-7020 Sakura Japanese Restaurant is a nice looking place right on US1 in Coral Gables. We decided to go try it out and see how it stacks up. The guy working behind the counter is Japanese, which guarantees nothing, but always makes me [...]

Rating: Suishin Izakaya159 Aragon Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33134 Izakaya – the word describes a place where you can eat all different types of Japanese foods. And that’s what you get at this perennial Coral Gables dining favorite. The current restaurant was built after hurricane Andrewstruck in 1992 by Chika Abe, who is still enthusiastically [...]

Rating: Matsuri Japanerse Restaurant5759 Bird RdCoral Gables, FL  33155 Every now and then you find a place, hidden away from the tourists, that rises to local legend status. Matsuri is that kind of sushi restaurant. They’re located in a nondescript strip mall with a totally ineffective sign out front – no way to see this [...]