Step through the revolving door into an elegant, high-ceilinged space decorated with walnut paneling, floor-to-ceiling windows and tables with white leather chairs trimmed in blue velvet, all set against sweeping views of Biscayne Bay.

The venerable Cipriani opens on Miami's Brickell Avenue at noon on Friday, the group's first U.S. restaurant outside New York and Los Angeles.

One year in the making, Cipriani Downtown, at 465 Brickell Ave. in the Icon Brickell, is a project of brothers Maggio and Ignazio Cipriani, fourth generation family members whose great grandfather Giuseppe opened the famed Harry's Bar in Venice in 1931.

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