Foodie Find: PM Buenos Aires Fish & Steak House

Inside the dining room, exposed brick, white linen chairs and rustic beams serve as the backdrop fora decadent experience. Waiters wear bow ties and serve almost all dishes tableside. Tenderloin arrives sizzling on an iron skillet, where it’s sliced before your eyes. Potatoes souffle, puffed light and crisp, is spooned to your plate from an edible spud bowl. And truffles are shaved on to creamy risotto not in the kitchen, but where you can see firsthand the slices feather down to the creamy dish.
It’s a good thing too, as the dishes are delicious and distracting. Don’t miss the signature salad with rounds of goat cheese and chucks of fresh avocado or the grilled octopus, which is cooked to be tender, not tough, and served with potatoes. The chorizo is homemade and features a family recipe that’s full of flavor. And the sweet potato sides are served piping hot and lightly sautéed.
The crowd here is for real. At lunchtime, it’s a dining room of business deals dotted with the occasional well-dressed patrons, while dinner draws the well-heeled from all walks. Happy hour is from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and featured specialty cocktails and wine, so if you don’t fit into either of the first two categories, this is the time to sip and savor with the best of them.
PM Buenos Aires Fish & Steak House, 1453 South Miami Avenue, weekdays 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturdays 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 10 p.m. Valet is $10.

Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home Economist is first published in The Miami Herald and then on the Tribune Content Agency, where it’s available to over 400 publications nationwide. She is broadcast weekly on two iHeartRadio news shows and is the author of “Not Buying It: Stop Overspending & Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids,” a parenting guide for people who might be tempted to buy their children the very obstacles they’re trying to avoid.