'As a self-confessed, unabashed fan of the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist (with the Spotify Wrapped data to back it up), a visit to the Miami steakhouse left me feeling disappointed.'
after charging them a $50 cutting fee. That didn’t deter the content creators though—around us, the “phone eats first” way of life reigned supreme. Gekko definitely leans into an aspirational aesthetic—dark, dramatic, intimate, with the implied hope of bumping into Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio as he tucks into 24-karat-gold-plated lobster dumplings in a private corner booth.
, the restaurant seems as much like a celebrity hang out as any other clubby restaurant. Which is to say, not very much so.Instead, Gekko ends up feeling like a venue where one can live out theircelebrity fantasy. A woman in the booth next to us pulled out a vape pen midway through her meal and a server politely gestured for her to put it away. Instead, she gave him a warm smile and a wave, as if she’d been spotted by the paparazzi, and continued to send up plumes of fruity vapor.
which felt more like a coincidence than intentional branding. A casual listener or a diner ignorant of the restaurant’s backstory could easily spend a night at Gekko without ever feeling the Bad Bunny-ness of it all. As a self-confessed, unabashed fan of the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist , a visit to the Brickell neighborhood steakhouse left me feeling disappointed. To be lured in by the hope of some sort of connection to the superstar, and instead shell out over $400 for a meal in a relatively generic dining room was not enough for me. If the Bad Bunny restaurant can’t deliver on food or vibes, it should at least lean in and let us have more Bad Bunny.
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