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2 Korean Girls is the brainchild of sisters Jennifer and Michele Kaminski. Jennifer manages a digital marketing agency in Miami and Michele is a hospitality consultant in Chicago. The sisters operate 2 Korean Girls as a ghost kitchen and just completed an extensive pop-up in Miami Beach. Bibimbap is at the core of its menu, a Korean rice dish with customized additions galore. Its bestseller is the O.B. (“original bibimbap”), layered with ribeye bulgogi, sesame spinach, marinated mung bean sprouts, sweet and sour radish, and more. The trademark of any bowl is a heart-shaped egg, adding more charm to the experience. There are snacks, too, like Korean fried chicken and Impossible meatballs glazed in a gochujang sauce.

Three years ago, on a rainy night at the Wynwood Yard, 2 Korean Girls was conceived. Jennifer Kaminski, who opened the delivery-and-takeout-only restaurant with her sister Michele this past December, says she put together the idea for the restaurant in a matter of a few hours after hearing that Wynwood Yard cofounder Della Heiman was hosting a pitch session for young restaurateurs to present their ideas and receive real-time feedback from hospitality veterans. Both sisters had spent their teen years helping their mother, Chom “Sunny” Kaminski, at her restaurant outside South Bend, Indiana, but they’d taken a different tack with their lives. 

Do you remember getting cotton candy at the fair or amusement park? Those fluffy clouds of sugar on a stick were the stuff of childhood dreams. Now you can relive those days with a much more sophisticated, delicious, and photo-worthy version of cotton candy, courtesy of 2 Korean Girls and 1-800-Lucky. 2 Korean Girls’ partners, Jennifer and Michele Kaminski, have placed a pink Willy Wonka-esque machine inside the Wynwood food hall that creates custom cotton candy in your choice of shapes, colors, and flavors. In other words, the pink, tasteless sugar clouds of yore have been replaced with beautiful, edible flowers, stars, and butterflies in flavors like strawberry, lychee, and pineapple.

Sister chefs Jennifer and Michele Kaminski recently brought their fresh and modern spin on Korean specialties to the Shelborne South Beach, a hotel in Miami, Fla., opening 2 Korean Girls along with their mother and James Beard Award-winning chef, Allan Susser. The restaurant concept focuses on the delicious, nutritious and beloved Korean staples of rice, meat, vegetables and egg. Made from the family’s generations-old recipes, the traditional dishes are created with a contemporary twist: 2 Korean Girls garnish their dishes with a heart-shaped egg and golden edible stars, adding an Instagrammable surprise for each diner. 

Sisters Michele and Jennifer Kaminski learned the power of female entrepreneurship early on, watching their mother Chom “Sunny” Kaminski run a Korean restaurant in Indiana. Though the sisters went into different industries, they’ve come back to hospitality this past year with the opening of 2 Korean Girls, a delivery and takeout only restaurant that gives their native food some modern amenities. 

If you’re in Miami this weekend, this is where you’ll want to be on Sunday afternoon. The SOBEWFF Artisan Food Market on Lincoln Roadis back with a line-up featuring some of the city’s best homegrown culinary talent. The first edition of this delicious market took place in January and has plans to continue through May when the 2021 Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One is scheduled to occur. 

Sisters Jennifer and Michele Kaminski opened this eatery because they felt there wasn’t enough Korean cuisine representation in Miami (an understatement to say the least). This long-term pop-up offers the Kaminski family recipes with a menu that includes signature dishes such as ribeye bulgogi with Korean white rice, sesame spinach, marinated mung bean sprouts, sweet and sour radish, spicy potato, fried egg and gochujang paste.

Jennifer and Michele Kaminski had actually been thinking about their admittedly abnormal dining concept for a few years now but just never took that first step. It came about when a simple thought occurred to them: why don’t more Americans appreciate the humble-but-amazing bibimbap (bee-bum-BAHP’)?

Sisters Jennifer and Michele Kaminski channeled years of watching their mother, Chom “Sunny” Kaminski cook at her Indiana restaurant. Seeing a need for delicious Korean food in Miami, they opened 2 Korean Girls with a little help from culinary veteran Allen Susser. 

Miami Herald: Fast-casual food just got an upgrade in Coconut Grove, thanks to two sisters, their chef mother and a longtime Miami culinary luminary.

2 Korean Girls is celebrating Lunar New Year with an exclusive Korean New Year dish offer, Impossible Kimchi Mandu ($10) and Spicy Crab Mandu ($12), only available this weekend for takeout and delivery. The Korean Dumplings are served with a side of Umma’s special Korean Teriyaki sauce for dipping.

Miami Culinary Tours: On tap to hit the Miami food scene Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 2 Korean Girls, a quick service pop-up restaurant equal parts contemporary flair and old school authenticity, will deliver delicious Korean specialties and classic Bibimbap inspired bowls.

Digest Miami: On tap to hit the Miami food scene Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 2 Korean Girls, a quick service pop-up restaurant made up of equal parts contemporary verve and old school veracity, will deliver savory Korean specialties and classic Bibimbap inspired bowls.

The Infatuation: A New Korean Pop-Up: A new delivery and takeout-only Korean restaurant opens in Coconut Grove this week, on December 1. It’s called 2 Korean Girls and they’ll serve dishes like bibimbap, kimchee fried rice, and customizable bowls.