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By Kate Sekules

Mark's South Beach
Miami Beach

In an open-kitchen dining venue overlooking the pool at this Deco palace, Mark Militello (an F & W Best New Chef 1990) cooks food from sunny climates: the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Latin America. He tweaks ordinary dishes with an olive-caper jus here, a mustard sabayon there, with the help of executive chef Juan LaValley. Pastry chef Juan Villaparedes does amazing things with El Rey chocolate.

(Hotel Nash, 1120 Collins Ave.; 305-604-9050)