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Arcano
Wagyu Burgers on Blackberry Buns? Here's Our First Look Inside Coral Gables’ Most Unexpected New Spot
Written by Eric Barton | May 21, 2025
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AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and lives above a Midtown brunch place. He has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.
The new Coral Gables restaurant Arcano is a place where nothing on the menu is what you expect. It’s a combination of Honduran roots, Miami ambition, and a menu that treats Latin American flavors like a playground for grownups.
Arcano comes from Nicole and Juan Diego Canahuati, a couple with roots in Honduras, a Rolodex of regional recipes, and Lucas Warren running the cocktail program. The result is a restaurant that pulls inspiration from across Latin America and then twists it through the lens of a chef who clearly doesn’t believe in playing it safe.
Juan Diego and Nicole Arcano
Take the Crudo de Lomito. It’s beef carpaccio laced with not one but three expressions of coffee—marinated, oiled, and emulsified—then topped with ancestral seeds and Honduran cheese. The guacamole is smoked, the croquetas are black with squid ink, and the wagyu burger comes on a blackberry-infused bun. The flavors shouldn’t work together. But they do, in the same way an ’80s mixtape makes sense when you’re in the right kind of mood.
Hamburguesa Arcano
Large-format plates go equally big. There’s a lamb shank bathed in pomegranate and red wine, served with purple corn tortillas and hibiscus powder. Or duck with mole atop corn purée. The Reina Pepiada arepa is what I’d order for lunch if I ever wanted to nap afterward.
Arcano’s Dame un Besito
And then there are the drinks—madcap concoctions like an Old Fashioned made with elote liqueur, a green cocktail called Baila Conmigo served in a ceramic avocado, and the Dame un Besito, with a gold-faced monkey holding a set of giant red lips. Warren, who’s opened bars in eight countries, brings the same sense of theater to the glass that Arcano delivers on the plate.
Arcano’s desserts
The space—2,050 square feet of stone, wood, and tropical plants—feels equally adaptable: candlelit dinners inside, sports on the 80-inch patio TVs outside, and live music during Sunday brunch. The crowd so far has been a mix of Coral Gables locals, weekend revelers, and people like me, looking for a place that doesn’t feel like everywhere else.
Arcano is located at 259 Giralda Avenue. Dinner Tuesday to Saturday, brunch Sundays, and a happy hour that runs late. Reservations are on OpenTable.
