Nuna Brickell Pop-Up Brings Nikkei Flair to Four Seasons Hotel Miami

After 6 p.m., the restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Miami in Brickell quietly hands over its kitchen to one of Peru's most decorated chefs. In the space where Edge Steak & Bar usually serves beef tartare and steak frites, a new restaurant pop-up has taken over — one that arrives with serious culinary credentials.

Nuna is the latest pop-up from acclaimed Peruvian chef Jaime Pesaque, best known for Mayta in Lima, ranked among the World's 50 Best Restaurants. In Miami, he's chosen to explore a different facet of his repertoire: Nikkei cuisine, the Japanese-Peruvian hybrid born from a long history of Japanese immigration to Peru.

But don't expect a typical Nikkei menu. "We don't start from Japanese flavors,” Pesaque says. "We begin with intensity, with Peruvian DNA, and then we shape