If you live in Miami, you are probably familiar with Cuban cuisine. Most likely you’ve had it dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of times, depending on your age and your affinity for lechón.
But chances are you have not had anything quite like what you’ll find at Tin Tin.
The new restaurant on Eighth Street in Miami, which opened at the end of December in the former space of Social 27, does not claim to be a Cuban restaurant. The creation of co-owners and chefs Sachi Statz and Victor Santos, veterans of the Michelin Bib Gourmand breakfast-and-lunch restaurant Tinta y Cafe, Tin Tin revels in the blending of Cuban flavors and Italian cuisine, sometimes with a stroke of French influence. It’s something wholly — and confidently — its own.
This is the sort of description many restaurants are fond of touting without any real backup. But Statz, whose family opened Miami’s first Tinta y Cafe 20 years ago on Eighth Street, eventually relocating it to Coral Gables and opening a Miami Shores location in 2021, says that the goal is to showcase Miami culture and cuisine…