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While some of Miami’s newest restaurants chase social media trends, restaurateurs Gabriel Llaurado and Luis Mata have built a reputation by doing the exact opposite. They’ve focused on quality over flash and on making great meat accessible to everyone.
That philosophy has helped turn their modest Miami butcher operation into a growing South Florida brand. They now boast seven butcher shops, two restaurants, and a café. However, this is an unlikely success story. Llaurado came from computer science, his business partner Mata from finance, and neither had a formal background in butchery. Both were born in Venezuela but raised in Miami, a city they still consider home and where they chose to build the business…