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Pablo Zitzmann's New Chef's Table Will Cost You Three Grand
By Eric Barton | Feb. 17, 2026
AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.
If you’ve ever tried to find a place to host a big group dinner, you know how it goes: Somebody has to pick the restaurant, somebody has to pre-order, somebody has to guess which wines won’t start an argument, and by the time the first plate hits the table the organizer looks like they just worked a double.
Chef Pablo Zitzmann is selling the antidote. The chef behind Zitz Sum and its sister restaurant Dōjō Izakaya is launching a private, large-format tasting menu for groups who want the chef’s table feeling without asking the dining room to improvise. It’s a curated nine-course experience for up to 30 guests, priced at $3,000. For the math-challenged (I used a calculator), that’s a quite reasonable hundred bucks per person.
The 30-person chef’s table is available Sundays or Mondays at either restaurant, with full payment due at booking. It includes nine courses, welcome snacks and beverages, curated wine pairings, and all food and beverages, plus sales tax and service charge. The point is that the negotiation has already been done. The group arrives, the kitchen takes over, and the night runs on rails.
The pitch, of course, is access: Zitzmann is framing this as a rare chance at a chef-curated experience tied to his Michelin-recognized cooking, without having to split into smaller parties or settle for a greatest-hits prix fixe. Coral Gables gets its private room energy without the private room compromises.
Zitz Sum has always been hard to quantify, technically seasonally driven with an ever-changing menu; there’s Japanese technique from Zitzmann’s travels there and then flavors from his own Latin background, and then whatever else he feels like cooking today. There’s an à la carte section along with a weekly seven-course tasting menu. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, although I’ve long argued it’s deserving of a star.
Dōjō Izakaya, meanwhile, is the team’s izakaya and sake bar, drawing inspiration from intimate Japanese bars with a focus on high-quality seafood and charcoal cooking, guided by the philosophy of ichigo ichie—treating each gathering as singular.
For bookings, email here. For coming up with 29 friends to join you, well, that’s on you.
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