Red Door opens to Asian
Cuisine
Red Door
A duo of Long Island restaurateurs have brought Pan Asian cuisine with hibachi flair to the former Johnny V.
“We cut our teeth inNew York— in the Hamptons specifically— where people are used to nothing but the absolute best,” says Tony Asta, co-owner with chef Tony Liu, a Chinese native who trained in Japan.“We bring this same tenacity to Red Door, which includesmaking everything fromscratch.”
Signatures include the tempura-fried Florida Sunshine roll with salmon and eel ($18), spicy tuna pizza on roti ($18) and hibachi-cooked shrimp and scallops ($30). Chinese dishes, such as Peking duck (half, $32; whole, $58), originate from Liu’s family.
“Most hibachi stations have hoods over the grill,” says Asta, who also owns Fusion Lounge in Sunny Isles Beach.“We have installed modern grills that have a ventilation system built directly into the grilling surface. Therefore, there won’t be the smokiness.”
Red and gold colors contrast black in the restaurant’s L-shaped layout.
“We had most of the décor flown in fromAsia, including thewooden sculpted Buddha faces behind the bar and a 10-foot-high, 1000-hand Buddha statue fromChina,” Asta says.
The front patio offers a view of the action on Las Olas. Dinner is served nightly, plusweekday lunch.
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