WGM: Ezio’s Steakhouse Review, $99 M for Tua Not to Play, & Russian James Bond Opens Seia

Plus The Heat win 5 in a Row, a Mexican in Brickell Key, & Grove with Capital G.

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WHAT’S GOOD MIAMI: 3.10.26

Beach Business

• Dolphins Pay $99 M for Tua to Leave, Hello Magic City Malik

  Tua leaves behind 55 million in dead cap this year, oh well.

• The Heat win 5 in a Row and are Suddenly… Dangerous

  Watch out Eastern Conference, the Heat are burning up

Hospitality Local Insider

• Ezio’s Steakhouse: There is a Great Chef Cooking in North Beach

  Is there a new restaurant king of North Beach? Maybe

• The Russian James Bond Is Opening a Private Club in the Sky

  Vlad Doronin is opening an Italian restaurant and private club in Brickell

• The Mexican Arrives in Brickell Key

  Roberto González Alcalá opened a Mexican restaurant named…. The Mexican

Real Estate

• Luxe Listings We Love: Grove with Capital G

  Simon Bissu designed a 6,194 SF home on an 11,550 SF lot.

On My Mind: Everyone thinks they know. They don’t.

There are only two reasons a person ever changes. They choose to. Or the pain gets so bad they have no other option.

That’s it. Two doors. And almost nobody walks through the first one willingly.

Think about that for a second. We live in the most documented era in human history. Every mistake has been made before us. Every shortcut has been mapped. Every version of failure and every version of success has been filmed, written about, podcasted, posted, and served to us algorithmically at exactly the moment we might need it.

The evidence is everywhere. The answers are not hidden.

And still, people run straight into walls they could see coming from a mile away.

Why? Why choose pain when you don’t have to? Why wait until everything breaks before you’re willing to look at what’s broken?

Focus works. Staying true to what you believe works. Keeping it simple, not dumbed down, but stripped of everything that isn’t essential, works. These aren’t ideas. They’re outcomes. Tested ones.

You don’t need more information. You need less noise and more commitment to the signal you already have.

But people will keep running after the wrong thing. Not because they don’t know better. Because knowing better and doing better are different muscles entirely. And most people never train the second one.

The ones who choose before the pain, those are your people. Find them. Build with them. Move fast.

BEACH BUSINESS

Dolphins Pay $99 M for Tua to Leave, Hello Magic City Malik

The Dolphins just paid $99 million for Tua Tagovailoa to go away. Yes, really. They could have avoided this 3 years ago by not signing him after his 12th concussion, but they didn’t want to be bad people and did the stupid, wasteful, thing.

The team released the quarterback this week, absorbing a $99 million dead-cap hit, one of the biggest financial losses a team has ever taken just to move on from a player.

Tua now appears to be headed to Atlanta, while Miami turns the page yet again at quarterback.

Enter Malik Willis, aka Magic City Malik, who arrives on a three-year deal worth about $67.5 million.

MCM, 26, made his name filling in for an injured Jordan Love in Green Bay, completing over 85% of his passes with three touchdowns and zero interceptions, while also rushing for 123 yards and two scores. New Dolphins head coach Jeff Hafley and GM Jon-Eric Sullivan both came over from the Packers organization, so this isn’t a blind bet. The question isn’t whether Willis can play, it’s whether Hafley and offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik can build an offense that lets him be himself.

If it works, the ceiling is real. If it doesn’t, this is just another chapter in a long book of Dolphins quarterbacks that never worked out.

The Heat win 5 in a Row and are Suddenly… Dangerous

The Heat have quietly won five in a row, knocking off teams like the Pistons and Rockets, and the energy around this team is starting to feel very familiar.

Bam and rookie Kelel Ware are looking straight-up lethal together. Inside, outside, lobs, blocks - the frontcourt suddenly feels like a problem for people.

Meanwhile Stormin’ Norman Powell and Tyler Herro have turned into the Heat Check Brothers, capable of catching fire and flipping a game in about three possessions.

And don’t look now, but Jaime Jaquez Jr. is starting to look like a legit Sixth Man of the Year candidate.

Which means, once again, Erik Spoelstra is doing that thing where he takes a roster people doubted and turns it into something nobody wants to deal with.

All of a sudden I’m thinking: f*ck Giannis, we might make a run.

Because if this team sneaks into the playoffs, there isn’t a single contender that’s excited about seeing Miami in the first round.

And frankly, I’m already looking forward to talking shit to whichever team does.

HOSPITALITY LOCAL INSIDER

Ezio’s Steakhouse: There is a Great Chef Cooking in North Beach

Many years ago, before Williamsburg stole the narrative, Roberta’s opened in Bushwick. No marketing. No hype machine. Just Carlo Mirarchi, Brandon Hoy, a great space and food that had immediate credibility, cultural and culinary. The pizza was outstanding, the vibe was immaculate. You knew it the moment you walked in. They got some Michelin stars, and built a thing that lives on to this day.