THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Chef Allen's Restaurant Review:
Since the late 1980s, Allen Susser (one of four inventive "Mango Gang" chefs who put South Florida on the culinary map with New World cuisine) has operated his eponymous restaurant as a classic fine dining spot. But dining styles and tastes change. So congenial Susser has changed with them, completely modernizing both his physical space, from formal to hip open-architecture, and his menu. The...
If anyone deserves to have a restaurant named after him, it's Chef Allen Susser, winner of the esteemed James Beard Award for Best American Chef in the Southeast -- the Academy Award of cuisine -- and practically every other form of praise and honor awarded by the most discriminating palates. Chef Allen, the man, is royalty around here. Chef Allen's, the restaurant, is his province, and foodies...
Allen Susser has been providing South Florida with New World-inspired, progressive Florida fare for nearly 20 years, which is a long time in Miami years. While Allen’s steadfastly sticks to Floribbean dishes, always prepared with high-quality local ingredients, too many of them crowded onto most plates can make ordering tricky. Stick to items with simple descriptions, avoiding the heavy,...
You can't judge Allen Susser's groundbreaking Floribbean restaurant by its Plain Jane cover.:
In Short
From the outside, chef/owner Allen Susser's restaurant looks less like a celebrated temple of local gastronomy and more like a mid-priced, touristy steakhouse. But the generic...