Pearl, Interrupted

Coming back to Pearl a decade only to find everything exactly the same, still new and shiny was a bit of a mind-bending time warp. The last time I was there was in 2000 for a bubbly-filled date night with another inebriated couple, before the restaurant closed in 2006. Now, six years later it's reopened. During my three hour dinner there, everyone looked great in the pink glow of the light, the waitresses wore Courreges-inspired Mod cut-out dresses with white go-go boots, service was slow but attentive, the food was tasty but priced steeply. In other words, nothing has changed at all. Newbies will love a taste of the heady, pre-crash Miami Beach and older folk can feel a multi-sensory blast from the past.

1 Ocean Dr  Miami Beach 786-515-1150