When EntreNos shuttered its Miami Shores pop-up last summer, it felt like a premature finale for a restaurant that had just nabbed a Michelin Star and a Green Star from its pop-up inside a coffee shop. Chefs Osmel González and Camila Salazar promised they would be back, and they are finally delivering; this time with a permanent, 16-seat Cuban spot in West Palm Beach’s Flamingo Park district.
Opening February 3, 2026, Emelina is a partnership with restaurateur and APM Restaurant Group founder Álvaro Perez Miranda, an industry veteran who currently oversees award-winning Miami staples like the upscale Hiyakawa, Midorie (winner of New Times‘ Best Sushi 2025), and the Michelin-starred omakase counter Ogawa.
Imagining a Different Future for Cuban Cuisine
The restaurant takes its name from the grandmother of González, who, he says, her grace and glamour reflected the Havana that once was. Rather than serving nostalgic Cuban cuisine, the ten-course tasting menu, priced at $235, asks a “what if” question: imagining the path Cuban food might have taken if the island’s chefs had been allowed the freedom to travel, study abroad, and return with new techniques.
“When I was in Cuba, we didn’t have the freedom to go out, learn, study, and bring back knowledge,” González says. “If Cuba were like any other country where you could just… go work in Latin America and Peru, Mexico, and then bring this knowledge back to the island and use the local ingredients… that is what makes [cuisine] move forward”…