He frequently invites chef friends to take over his restaurant Harry's Pizzeria for a night, and twice in the last six months, shrimp toast has taken a star turn on guest's menus once from Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune in New York, and again from Jonathan Sawyer of Cleveland's Greenhouse Tavern.
Meanwhile, the restaurateur's Genuine Hospitality Group has flourished, expanding to include a Michael's Genuine outpost on Grand Cayman, a wood-burning pizzeria and an as-yet-unnamed restaurant inside South Beach's Raleigh Hotel.