Miami

• Efrain Veiga is opening Mayya next to the Albion Hotel, where chef Guillermo Tellez (Yuca, Charlie Trotter's in Chicago) will prepare upscale Mexican cuisine

• Less than a year ago, chef Anthony Sindaco opened the Sunfish Grill with his fiancée, Erika DiBattista. Today, the hip 40-seat seafood restaurant in Pompano Beach is jumping, due, in small part, to a recent Miami Herald review that described it as "a restaurant that is nearly perfect.".