The accompanying parsley, radish, red onion, pine nut and currant salad rounds out the plate with contrasting textures and lively flavors.

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Before topping the fillets with grapefruit, Mr. Schwartz adds another layer of flavor and texture with a raw radish, chive and red onion tangle.

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Feel free to substitute shallot for the red onion.

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Almost five years later, diners are still packing the house to sample his crispy rice cakes filled with Florida rock shrimp and smoky chorizo as well as ceviche made with a local catch, papaya, red onion, citrus and avocado.

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Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).

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Be sure to try pescado Yucatn (whole grilled trout rubbed with achiote-chile paste and citrus, topped with pickled red-onion escabeche), and puerco adobo (pork tenderloin marinated with guajillo chile rub, served with fruit salsa).

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