A barbecue joint in a sketchy part of downtown Miami featuring picnic tables, paper napkins, cow skulls on the wall and blaring '80s music is an unlikely power lunch spot.

But Sparky's Roadside Barbecue is where you will find many of the city's top movers and shakers, from U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer to Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge George Sarduy and Akerman Senterfitt lawyers.