{"id":403022,"date":"2026-09-17T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403022\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:58:12","slug":"tin-tin-was-just-named-one-of-americas-best-restaurants-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403022\/","title":{"rendered":"Tin Tin Was Just Named One of America\u2019s Best Restaurants of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami has no shortage of great restaurants<\/a> where you\u2019re expected to dress up, valet your car and pretend you\u2019re not checking whether anyone famous is sitting at the next table. Now The New York Times is reminding us that some of the city\u2019s most exciting food is happening\u00a0far beyond velvet ropes.<\/p>\n

Tin Tin<\/a>, the Little Havana restaurant from co-chefs and co-owners Sachi Statz and Victor Santos, has been named one of the best restaurants in America for 2026 by The New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0The list praised\u00a0Tin Tin’s ambitious Latin-European cooking, such as\u00a0snapper fillet buried under a cloud of aerated potato pur\u00e9e and yellowtail crudo sitting in coconut leche de tigre. This is not exactly the Cuban food your abuela was making\u2014but Tin Tin isn\u2019t pretending it is.<\/p>\n

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Instead, Statz and Santos are taking the flavors they know and giving them a decidedly more cosmopolitan wardrobe. Ropa vieja gets stuffed into tortellini,\u00a0jam\u00f3n serrano meets pressed papaya and\u00a0the rest of the menu pulls from Cuban, Spanish, Italian and French traditions without seeming like it was assembled by a committee.<\/p>\n

That makes sense considering where the restaurant comes from. Statz is part of the family behind Tinta y Caf\u00e9, the beloved Cuban sandwich and coffee shop that has been around for more than 20 years. Santos is her longtime colleague, and together they\u2019ve turned\u00a0their shared Miami food history into something more ambitious.<\/p>\n

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The location is part of the point. Tin Tin isn\u2019t in a glossy new tower in Brickell or another buzzy Wynwood warehouse designed to look like it was waiting for an Instagram photographer. It\u2019s on Calle Ocho, in Little Havana, where Cuban sandwiches, cafecito and decades-old neighborhood institutions have long defined the dining landscape.<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s a restaurant serving food that could easily hold its own among Miami\u2019s trendiest dining rooms\u2014but without abandoning the neighborhood that inspired it.<\/p>\n

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Tin Tin is located at\u00a02555 SW 8th St., and is open Tue.\u2013Sat., 4:30pm\u201310pm, and Sun., 11am\u20134pm. For more information and to make a reservation, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami has no shortage of great restaurants where you\u2019re expected to dress up, valet your car and pretend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2019,225,227,226,2020,687],"class_list":["post-403022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-news-eating","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}