Blackbrick

Reviews 8

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Irwin Podhajser

My wife and I discovered Sakaya Kitchen the week it opened and became instant huge fans and told everyone we knew about it. We were excited to discover some time ago that the owner/chef of Sakaya was opening Black Brick. We have been looking for quality high end Asian food since Chus closed in the Gables and was hoping that Black Brick would fill this very large void. What a complete disappointment. Sakaya is half the price of Black Brick and 3 times better food. When you pay $8 for an egg roll and $10 for dim sum dumpling, it better be good. Both were pedestrian at best and in fact I have several Chinese take out hole in the walls near me that do a better job with flavors than Black Brick. You can get top quality dim sum all over Miami for one third the price. My wife compared it to a Chinese buffet. At least at the buffet you would get all you can eat for the price of one greasy soggy egg roll at Black Brick. How bad was this experience? Ive been reading Yelp for years. Way before most people even heard of it. I have been the go to person in the circle for recommending food. My Facebook page is filled with reviews so friends would know where to go. How bad was Black Brick? This is my first review on Yelp ever! I feel robbed. More than that I feel raped. No I will take it one step further...I feel date raped. I knew the quality of Sakaya and I felt safe going out to dinner with him at his other restaurant. After this experience, I would feel safer as a cute college girl having drinks at Bill Cobys place than ever trying another one of his restaurants. Safe yourself the overpriced, over-greased food and go across the street to their original restaurant...Sakaya Kitchen.

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Chase Ros

I give credit where it is due. The food is pretty good here (especially the Shrimp siu mai). You wont leave hungry, but it will make you wonder if there are better dim sum restaurants elsewhere. In short, I am glad I gave this place a shot but I will never come back. Unfortunately for Blackbrick I have had so much dim sum elsewhere in the country; I know how it is prepared. Heres my take: everything is super salty; as soon as you see the menu youll notice that they somehow managed to make dim sum (the most accessible, quick, and fresh way to enjoy a Chinese brunch) pretentious (read: in big font on the menu it says the dumplings here are made to order [as if dim sum is not handmade everywhere else]). In other words, expect to wait 40 minutes for your order (we ordered 3 types of dumplings). The last annoyance is the inevitable Miami price hike which nets three siu mai for $9. It wouldnt be terrible if they were awesome, but you can tell a lot from how dumplings are rolled and the chef isnt doing anything special here (read: over steamed and watery). All in all, give Blackbrick a shot if youre in the area, but make your way to China Town to experience the way Chinese really do brunch.

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Daniel Pineau

Edgy concept with fantastic menu, decor and service. Was laid over in Miami for seven hours so I wandered around midtown and stumbled in to this place. Hip-hop (not too loud, just right) coupled with emperor portraits of chuck Norris, Bruce lee and Keith Richards enjoying generous wall space made this an interesting find from the start. The idea is to come in groups, and have the table share from a number of orders - but I made this work by ordering an app and a smaller entree. At its heart, Black Brick is a dim sum joint - so I ordered the cumin lamb dumplings. Very nice - although a smidge too salty for me (I commonly think this - so I admit its me and not the general population). Four came and it was a great start. Presentation was right there with substance. Many meats are represented on the menu - but all I needed to see was Rabbit - and so I ordered the Gong Bao Rabbit (with roasted peanuts, jalapeño and Sichuan peppers. Sublime. Truly. The rabbit characteristics stood solid and expressed themselves amid a platescape of flavor. Id love to come back.

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Ricardo Queen-Burrows

The person on the computer taking the order does not know what she is doing. She messed up the order, when I reached home I noticed that the order was not complete. For the food to be this expensive one would think the food would be great, but thats totally not true. There food was very greasy, it had had no taste, and the containers was full of oil. The chicken had no taste, it was just pure oil. The eggrolls was oily as well. The Lam taste wasnt oily but it tasted liked card board box. The spare ribs dry. After eating a little bit of the food I had diarrhea. THE FOOD IS JUST HORRIABLE. I WILL NEVER EVER BUY FOODFROM THEM AGAIN. OTHERS SHOULD NOT ORDER FROM THEM.

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Horolen Restrepo

Orange peel crispy beef was to hard to cut had to ask for a shaper knife which isnt the knife type given to customers. Hong Kong Wonton soup tasted odd & had to many thick spaghetti pasta in it which made it over welming to try to eat so I ate soup alone. The Lobster Fried Rice was Delicious plenty lobster chunks. Ice cream with guayaba was delicious. Wines are good. Music was up beat. Place was clean. I love Master Bruce Lee on Wall Im a fan for life, but not a fan of the menu prices. So pricey I payed $88.00 yet other than the lobster rice & guayaba w/ice cream everything else was hard to bring down therefore I left almost all my food. Wouldnt go there again.

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Yaroslav Kerget

We find this restaurant after I have search foursquare app on the phone to find out where we can eat a good Chinese food after the visiting of Miami Childrens Museum. Interior is kind of interesting, the prices a big high I thinks but the food is tasty. We have tried: steamed shrimp & scallop dim sum (portion has 3 pieces) - really tasty dish; steamed chicken sui mei - kind of weird dish dont really like it; pork cheek pan fried dumplings - ok dish kinda like it; pan fried pork bao bun - mouthwatering dish; halapenjo beef - one of the best I have ever tried, really recommend it. Definitely will be back here again.

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Terrazas Victim

Love this place. Best Chinese in Miami. Love the dumplings, friend rice, lamb, egg rolls and wonton soup. And the spicy pepper sauce is great with everything. The place has also improved a lot. I first went when they opened and everything was super salty and tough. But after returning 7 months later, I was pleasantly surprised. The food was flavored perfectly and the meat was far more tender than what i originally had. Overall, the place has come along way and its very good. Cant wait to return again.

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Dina Bobrova

1. They should hire more servers because its obviously understaffed. Our waiter did not even come to ask how the food was, and the bus boy ran off even though I needed something from him. 2. The ribs are the driest Ive probably ever had. One of them came burned to completely black. 3. Dumplings are overpriced and not tasty. Go to Hakkasan and enjoy it. 4. Lamb noodles were the only decent dish. I can handle bad service if the food is good. But bad service and bad food means Im never coming back.

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