https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/dining/miami-fish-market-plaza-seafood.html
A Miami Market Where the Fish Fly
Plaza Seafood is a hub of sounds, sustenance and a sense of community that are more in demand than ever during the pandemic.
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Published Jan. 11, 2021Updated Jan. 13, 2021
MIAMI Customers traveling by foot or convertible will hear Plaza Seafood Market shortly after it comes into view. The rhythmic thud of long, heavy knives cracking fish spines, landing hard on a cutting board, grows louder when you reach the parking lot, provided there are no motorcycles revving nearby, drowning everything else out.
The sounds of half-shouted Spanish, car horns and crushed ice being shoveled over mutton snapper mingle with the chopping after you enter the compact, one-room market. It’s on a stretch of Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood known as Little Santo Domingo, where fish cutters have been butchering whole fish for home cooks at Plaza Seafood since the early 1990s.