Miami diners who miss the Argentine flavors of the shuttered Tigre Miami have a new reason to get excited: chef Deborah de Corral has launched Dorita’s, a chef-crafted \u00e0 la carte food delivery service inspired by the neighborhood rotiser\u00edas of Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires-born, Miami-based chef says the concept brings restaurant-quality cooking straight to local homes through a weekly ordering system, built around slow-cooked, wood-fired dishes rooted in traditional technique.<\/p>\n
The launch was announced Saturday in a release from EIN Presswire, which frames Dorita’s as de Corral’s effort to recreate the casual, neighborhood food culture of Buenos Aires for a Miami audience. De Corral is the founder behind the project, which the release describes as drawing on her background at the Michelin-recognized Tigre Miami. According to the Dorita’s website, the menu spans Argentine-inspired dishes including milanesas, croquetas, escabeches and pantry staples, all packaged in functional, oven-ready containers meant to require minimal prep once they reach a customer’s kitchen.<\/p>\n
From Tigre’s Dining Room to Weekly Delivery<\/p>\n
De Corral operated Tigre Miami from 2020 to 2024, a restaurant that earned recognition from the Michelin Guide during that run, per the EIN Presswire release. Before launching Dorita’s, de Corral was a co-founder of Tigre alongside developer and designer Eduardo Suarez and food and beverage director Marcos Chantres, according to Time Out, which located the restaurant on Miami’s Little River, steps from the MiMo Historic District. Time Out described Tigre’s approach as drawing inspiration from traditional Buenos Aires bistros, or bodegones, reimagining Argentine classics for a Miami crowd \u2014 a sensibility that now carries over into the Dorita’s menu, which features Tigre’s dulce de leche flan among its desserts.<\/p>\n
The connective thread between the old restaurant and the new delivery concept is intentional. De Corral said Dorita’s is food she makes for the people she loves, and that customers can in turn serve it to their own loved ones, according to the EIN Presswire announcement. She also said she wants Dorita’s to make a regular Wednesday at home feel like the best dinner of the week, without needing a reservation \u2014 a line that doubles as the project’s whole pitch. The brand’s slogan, hecho con ganas, roughly translates to made with desire or made with heart.<\/p>\n
What’s Actually on the Menu<\/p>\n
The \u00e0 la carte lineup leans on South Florida produce alongside Argentine comfort food staples. The Dorita’s site lists a salad built from bitter greens, kale and shaved radishes sourced from local farmers, tossed with crispy chickpeas, herbs, toasted walnuts and a lemon-tahini dressing. A root-vegetable medley rounds out the produce-forward side of the menu, paired elsewhere with turmeric yogurt.<\/p>\n
Beyond the vegetables, the site describes a caponata of eggplant, bell pepper and sweet onions cooked in olive oil and balsamic vinegar with a touch of capers, plus shiitake mushroom croquetas built on buttery leeks and velvety b\u00e9chamel. For dessert, the site calls its dulce de leche Chef D’s legendary recipe \u2014 pitched as pure, creamy, hyper-indulgent bliss.<\/p>\n
A Pop-Up Dinner and a Planned Little Haiti Market<\/p>\n
Dorita’s isn’t de Corral’s only current project. She also introduced Los Ping\u00fcinos Cantina de Barrio, a seasonal wood-fire dinner pop-up that is preparing to return for its third consecutive season, per the EIN Presswire release. A listing on Tock describes Los Ping\u00fcinos as a one-night weekly pop-up offering a multi-course prix fixe menu that changes according to what’s best and freshest each week; that listing shows the event as sold out and notes it’s held outdoors, meaning it could be postponed with a reschedule or full refund in case of rain.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, Dorita’s plans to open a Saturday market in Little Haiti later this year, according to the EIN Presswire announcement. The neighborhood already has an established tradition of weekly outdoor markets: the Little Haiti Cultural Complex runs a weekly open-air market every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the historic Caribbean Marketplace on NE 2nd Avenue, an initiative that according to L’Union Suite launched back in March 2017. Whether Dorita’s new market will connect to that existing Caribbean Marketplace tradition, which the City of Miami calls the cultural complex’s largest venue space, hasn’t been detailed in the available announcement. For now, Miami households can get their rotiser\u00eda fix the same way de Corral says she intended: delivered weekly, straight to the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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