David Foulquier knows that the first incarnation of his beloved restaurant Fooq’s has taken on something of a legendary quality. The Persian-French favorite, which he opened in downtown Miami in 2015, closed in March 2021 and became Eleventh Street Pizza, a move to combat the effects of the COVID pandemic.
Yet the restaurant has kept a firm grip on the imaginations of avid Miami foodies.
“It was culty and small and niche, and when it closed for a while, it became mythical,” Foulquier says now, laughing. “It’s kind of like, if you got to experience the old Fooq’s, it was like seeing the Grateful Dead with Jerry Garcia.”…