New Restaurants Update

The feeding frenzy continues, folks. Economic downturn, shmownturn. In Miami we live to eat, not vice versa.

• Pacfic Time reopens in the Design District. Courtyard seating, Pan Asian flavors, a wood-burning oven. I smell competition...
• Fratelli Lyon is set to open next week. Wines by the glass, home made bread, heirloom legumes from Umbrian farmers to fresh goat’s milks cheeses from small Piedmontese cheese makers, to hand numbered, hand-bottled Italian olive oils from Molise and Italian wines from small estates.
• Manny's Steakhouse opened in the Met One building on Tuesday. From the press release: Manny’s uses dry-aged, corn-fed midwestern beef supplied by specially contracted suppliers. Chef Pablo Guarella procures only the center cuts from the loins and custom-trims them to exacting specifications.

Now if you'll excuse me I need to install elastic bands in all my pants...