September 30, 2011. Miami, Florida. Phuc-yea is Miami’s 1st Vietnamese Pop-Up -Restaurant. Bringing us Vietnamese food 5 nights a week in Downtown, Miami with 26 available seats. Server, Paola gets some pamphlets ready to be placed at the front of the restaurant. “When customers arrive or leave, they usually take one, and that’s another form on how the word spreads, that and social media” says owner Aniece Meinhold.
September 30, 2011. Miami, Florida. Phuc-yea is Miami’s 1st Vietnamese Pop-Up -Restaurant. Bringing us Vietnamese food 5 nights a week in Downtown, Miami with 26 seats and the menu changes pretty much everyday. Nohemi Cortes and Osiris Hernandez, help get all the ingredients prepared for the “oodles of noodles” dish which consists of shrimp rice noodles, ground pork, wood ear muchrooms, pork terrine and shrimp chips. “Our menu is designed because this is the food we want to create, and you have to come in with an open mind. The music is different, the look is different, the feel is different, and we’re okay with that, because it’s about the food” says Aniece Meinhold, one of the three owners.
September 30, 2011. Miami, Florida. Phuc-yea is Miami’s 1st Vietnamese Pop-Up -Restaurant. Bringing us Vietnamese food 5 nights a week in Downtown, Miami with 26 seats and the menu changes pretty much everyday. One of the owners and the main chef on the floor, Cesar Zapata puts his finishing touch on the “spanish mackerel which is made up of caramilized egg plant and coconut broth.
September 30, 2011. Miami, Florida. Phuc-yea is Miami’s 1st Vietnamese Pop-Up -Restaurant. Bringing us Vietnamese food 5 nights a week in Downtown, Miami. They have 26 available seats and their menu changes everyday. On weekends they experience hour waits and on this special day they received their liquor license, so they began selling alchohol this past Friday. “This our second time here, and we’ve tried a bunch of different things. It’s something new, it’s food that you can’t really find in Miami. It’s authentic, a modern take on very classic things. A lot of these foods, I’ve eaten before at my house. So it’s interesting to see a different take on it. We enjoy it a lot, hopefully they stick around” says Mike and Lin. While on the other end, owner Aniece Meinhold says “We’re looking for a situated space here in Downtown, Miami because we notice the people are liking it a lot.”
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