Twenty-two years ago, Cindy Hutson burst onto the Miami dining scene with Norma’s, a hole in the wall on Lincoln Road when Lincoln Road allowed that sort of thing. Named for the mother of Hutson’s life partner, Norma’s was an instant smash — an infusion of Caribbean flavor and tropical colors into a dining scene that needed a shot of something spicy. The Jersey girl is all grown up now, head of a mini-dining conglomerate that has had flagship Ortanique on the Mile, a popular Coral Gables spot, for 18 years, as well as ventures in Harbor Beach and Grand Cayman and her latest island project, Zest at the Cliff in Negril, Jamaica. Now she’s tackling the plaza of the foreboding towers of the...
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