Chefs and Restaurants

The Tropical Transformation of Miami's Sunny's Steakhouse

Lia Picard

It’s hard to tell by looking at Sunny’s Steakhouse, but the Miami restaurant began in a banyan-shaded courtyard. When partners Will Thompson and Carey Hynes couldn’t host guests in their restaurant Jaguar Sun during the pandemic, the duo created an outdoor steakhouse at a ramshackle former manufacturing site that lacked electricity. “We had to do something with fire. We couldn’t do pasta. We...