You're in Miami, do as the Miamians do. Eat Cuban.

1. Versailles (Little Havana) - The heart of Cuban Miami. Cafe con leche and heaping plates of nostalgia.
2. La Carreta at Key Biscayne (Key Biscayne) - Filling, tasty Cuban cuisine like beans, rice, steak, and tres leches.
3. Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine (North Beach) - Never mind the name, this is Cuban cuisine, as authentic as it gets.

Would Louis XIV find it amusing to see Jeff Koons’ hanging "Lobster," otherwise known as inflatable beach toy, suspended in of one of his salons? Maybe. He was, after all, a revered sponsor of the arts. Appropriate? Jean-Jacques Aillagon, President of the Château de Versailles, which hosts the American artist’s selected works, seems to think so. “Koons’ “Pop Baroque” aesthetic is in line with the palace’s Baroque style,” Aillagon has said. His support for the project was so deep that Aillagon committed an unprecedented 2 million euros for the event.

Jeffrey Chodorow, owner of China Grill, Asia de Cuba, Kobe Club, Ono, and other esteemed global eateries, dishes on Schrager, disses on DiSpirito, then row-row-rows his colorful boat ashore.

Point of Origin: I was born in the Bronx, but my father died the year I was born, so my mother and I moved to Miami. I grew up in Miami Beach, where we lived with her sister. They were both manicurists in a Cuban barbershop, and they used to go to Havana for the weekend -- which, incidentally, is how Asia de Cuba eventually came to be. I opened China Grill because I knew the Asian and Cuban pantry, so it seemed like a natural. I grew up very poor in a very wealthy Miami area where we went through school drills, hiding under our desks during the Cuban missile crisis. Some friends built a bomb shelter in their property which was nicer than our apartment! This was before Castro came in.