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FEATURES 102 FLAVOR FOUND Award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson brings his love of chasing flavors to Red Rooster Overtown.

108 THE INDULGE 25 INDULGE presents the dishes that we love and you’ll want to try now.

118 PULL UP A CHAIR Supper clubs are having a moment in South Florida.

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�� THE LOCAL 29 SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS Outdoor dining and entertaining is a walk in the park with these details that add casual elegance to the occasion.

30 LAUNCHING NOW A day dedicated to rosé, brunch on a revived South Beach strip, natural wines and appetizers in downtown Miami and the “Blackout” workout you’ll need after.

32 CULTURE Late night delights at SOBEWFF, a cultural evening at PAMM, an Instagram-ready exhibit and other happenings in South Florida.

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38 MY 305 STYLE Celebrity chef Danie Abraham lets us in on a few favorite items that help keep her “super eclectic” style on point.

40 JEWEL BOX Make the connection between love and luxury, just in time for Valentine’s Day. 42 PHILANTHROPY INDULGE asked the dressed-in-pink invitees of Women of Tomorrow’s annual Rosé Day Luncheon about their favorite dishes in Miami.

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48 BEHIND THE LABEL Tiffany & Co.’s Reed Krakoff chats with INDULGE about the American luxury brand’s latest men’s collection.

50 A DAISY THING For her premier column, columnist Daisy Olivera sits down with Gigi Whitman to discuss the do’s and don’ts of entertaining at home.

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THE MOVERS 53 RAINMAKER With his latest restaurant, chef Timon Balloo dives deep with a menu as diverse in its makeup as the man himself.

74 RECIPE The omakase at The Den at Azabu Miami Beach is an altogether special experience, and with a few tips from the chef you can try it in your own kitchen.

56 THE PRODIGAL CHEF Marking her grand return to Miami, celebrity chef Lorena Garcia’s life and experiences shine through in her menu at CHICA.

78 POUR Resident sommelier Dinkinish O’Connor explores a mural of labels that represent the winemaker in an artful way.

60 MAN OF (HOME) STYLE As a chef who epitomizes innovative Miami gastronomy, Giorgio Rapicavoli keeps planting new flags all over the city.

82 NEIGHBORHOOD Yury Bettoni guides us through the ins and outs of the casually glamorous South of Fifth district in South Beach.

62 THE UNCONVENTIONAL CATERER Beloved Miami restaurateur Steven Haas is redefining the cuisine and service at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

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64 CULINARY COMBO Renowned pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith and her caterer to the stars wife Heidi Ladell begin the new decade at two of Miami’s notable spots.

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hink back to 2010. If you’ve lived in Miami at least for the past decade, you may remember that year as the time when Miami’s “food movement” exploded. Food trucks were suddenly everywhere and events curated around them were weekly happenings. Elevated burger joints popped up all over the city. Michelle Bernstein and Michael Schwartz were holding court in the Design District; a little greek spot called Mandolin Aegean Bistro had just opened up down the road; Miamians were enjoying happy hour at Timon Balloo’s new Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill in a hip and relatively new neighborhood called Midtown; and restaurateur Myles Chefetz had celebrities and those that just wanted a thick steak and truffled lobster mac n’cheese lining up at Prime 112 in South Beach. Things were going on, and residents were paying attention to gastronomy beyond the weekend of the much-anticipated South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

Fast forward to early 2020, and the INDULGE team putting together a list of 25 dishes that readers must try now (p.108), each from an eatery that makes up Miami’s considerable and constantly expanding food scene. The assignment was a challenge (albeit one that our contributors and I happily and hungrily accepted) simply because we now live in a city that has boosted up its restaurant game to new levels, becoming a place where there is truly something for everyone — a melting pot of flavors found in dishes served by some of the industry’s biggest names that have opened up shop in the 305.

One such figure is celebrity chef, restaurateur and author Marcus Samuelsson, whose television series “No Passport Required” is now celebrating its second season on PBS. The documentary-style show features Samuelsson on a journey Jenny Starr Perez across the U.S. exploring kitchen traditions brought over from other countries that are now woven into modern-day American Editor in Chief cuisine. Highlighting a mix of cultures through cuisine is something that Samuelsson also does off-camera at his lauded Harlem restaurant Red Rooster, where the he showcases his Ethiopian and Swedish heritages in a menu that features traditional soul food with a twist. On assignment for this issue’s cover story (p. 102), writer Shayne Benowitz spent some time with the award winning chef late last year at his New York spot, where they discussed Red Rooster’s big move to Miami’s own Historic Overtown neighborhood, a place that for Samuelsson reflects a similar diversity, culture and history as Harlem. Diners can expect a menu featuring signature Red Rooster dishes, as well as a few new plates inspired by the Magic City.

Like the city we are so fortunate to represent, INDULGE continues its own expansion with fresh original content for readers to enjoy. In this issue, two of several new columns that will be premiering this year make their grand debut. In “Behind the Label” (p. 48), we interview Tiffany & Co. Chief Artistic Officer Reed Krakoff, who lets us in on the brand’s latest men’s collection reflecting their ties to the world of sports. A flip of the page later (p. 50), you’ll find a grand spread featuring colorful table settings at the home of Gigi Whitman, brought to us by our new Contributing Lifestyle Editor Daisy Olivera in her new column “A Daisy Thing.”

We hope this issue inspires you to expand your horizons and embrace the new. You’re certainly in the right place to do it.

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rom cover star Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s welcoming smile to our featured Indulgence, an über-luxurious Louis Vuitton picnic trunk, we're once again true to our annual Food & Wine issue, one of the most anticipated of the year. It’s brimming with stories about the dreamers who make the Miami food scene so diverse and delicious — local restaurateurs, chefs, caterers and philanthropists, all changing lives through food.

To begin, our Movers section (p. 53) features eight locals from the “It” list of influencers with whom you might like to pull up a chair, order your favorite cocktail and have a meaningful chat. Each brings his or her own brand of Miami to the food scene, beginning with our rainmaker Timon Balloo and his eponymous restaurant, where he presents a menu reflecting his multi-cultural food heritage. Lorena Garcia, the “prodigal chef,” is back in Miami and settled at her chic new spot CHICA, featuring her famous empanaditas (my go-to take-out at MIA!). And if you want to experience an “unconventional” convention meal, then schedule your next meeting at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The duo of Steven Haas and Ismael Lasalle will surprise and entice you with their "Unusual Finds" menu items. Lionfish, anyone?

When it comes to the unusual, it’s not just about the food itself, but also the experience. That’s what United Way of Miami-Dade organizers no doubt had in mind when they devised one of my absolute favorite philanthropic events of the season, the VeritageMiami Interactive Dinner. Socializing with host chef Giorgio Rapicavoli at this charitable and entertaining event is an added treat, so I will enthusiastically don my apron and attempt to reproduce his distinctive recipes.

Lesley DeCanio Bring on the carbonara!

Left room for dessert? The idea of spotlighting that quintessential American dish, pie, originated with a team-building activity we called “Pie Day.” It was simple: engage our leaders to bring an array of pies (homemade or store-bought) to share with our newsroom, advertising and INDULGE staff. It was such a hit that we decided to feature some of Miami’s best and most creative pies in Dish (p. 71), a tough assignment that required copious sampling by Angela Caraway-Carlton. I can personally vouch for the Mango Peachango pie, beautifully photographed

by Felipe Cuevas. One thing my team knows about me is that I can’t bake; but they also know they can count on my contribution of The Baked Bunny’s blueberry pie with the most decadent whipped cream you will ever taste. After all, it’s the thought that counts, right?

Next it’s bye-bye, American pie — we’re taking you to Greece in our Escape feature on Mykonos, elegantly captured by Drew “Andreas” Limsky in his must-read “Call me by My Greek Name” (p. 93). This gorgeous island holds special memories for me. On my last visit, as I held up my camera and tinkered with the focus to capture a one-of-a-kind sunset over the Aegean Sea, I realized that this moment was fleeting and actually meant to be mine, enjoyed alone and in real time. I never took the photo, but likewise I will never, ever forget that moment. Now, thanks to Limsky’s article, I have an immediate desire to return.

I hope it might similarly inspire you too.

If, as they do in Mykonos, you enjoy dining al fresco, why not plan to sneak away on Friday, February 14th and treat your special someone to a picnic?

Not just any ordinary picnic, but an all-in splurge featuring that Louis Vuitton trunk (p. 130), where the deviled eggs will look marvelous atop the Limoges dishware and you can share bites of chocolate mousse with a silver spoon. Certainly no Valentine can resist!

Whether you’re out and about this month trying a fabulous new eatery or simply enjoying the sunshine on the patio with a glass of Prosecco, I hope our Food and Wine issue inspires you to live February in South Florida to the fullest. As so many northern visitors can attest, it doesn’t get any better than this.

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Rosé All Weekend “Rosé is more than another wine; it’s a lifestyle,” says the website for Seaglass, recognizing our near-religious love of pink-hued goblets of vino. The event promises a “rosé paradise unlike anything you’ve ever seen,” including all you can sip from 30 winemakers and food from notable chefs.

It begins on the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach the night of Feb. 8 and picks up again the following afternoon.

A $150 ticket gets you into the Rosé Experience, but a $5,000 VIP cabana comes with a dedicated server and lounge chairs for you and nine friends seeking a rosé escape. seaglassexperience.com.

AN ESPAÑOLA MORNING Ah brunch, the meal that’s equal parts about mimosas as it is a cure for last night’s overindulgence. For those looking for a new hair-of-the-dog spot, historic Española Way is now billing itself as a weekend morning destination. Many of the South Beach street’s eateries are brunching these days, including the Italian buffet at Hosteria Romana and the rancho tostada at Oh! Mexico. There’s also yoga at �:�� every Saturday morning, led by Victoria Brunacci from Synergy Yoga Center — just in case brunch isn’t enough to kick your hangover. visitespanolaway.com.

The Blackout Workout For all that you’ll eat after reading this issue, there’s an answer: Anatomy’s Midtown location added a low-impact, high-intensity training studio called Blackout. It runs from 30-minute classes to a butt-kicking hour and a half in a space that’s painted — you guessed it — all black, with dramatic strips of light running across the ceiling. Non-members of Anatomy pay $35 per class, but that gets you access to the gym, infrared sauna and eucalyptus steam room. anatomyfitness.com.

Downtown’s New ‘Natty’ Wines “Natty” might not be a description you’d associate with quality wine. But the trend these days for natural wines have spawned the city’s first bar specializing in them. Located in downtown’s Ingraham Building, Margot Natural Wine & Aperitivo Bar serves often-funky wines from around the world made with few additives and an attention on biodynamic growing techniques. The co-founders of Bar Lab, Gabe Orta and Elad Zvi, are behind the concept, which takes its name, they say, from the fact that many natural wines these days are grown by female winemakers. bar-lab.com.

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A New Way to Valentine’s

AFTER-HOURS WITH SOBEWFF If you’ve got a vampiric side that is not so excited about events beginning when the sun’s up, there’s good news: you can still go all in at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The event has an ever-expanding list of late-night happenings, including a pizza party by Michael Schwartz, a dim sum disco, a tiki cocktail showdown and, in case your soul needs a bit of after-dark healing, gospel and falafel with Zak The Baker. Find a full list of the latenight events at sobewff.org.

Skip the overcrowded dining scene this Valentine’s Day and head to Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, which will remain open late for a totally unique romancethemed event. The first-ever Valentine’s Remix promises a night of storytelling and art inspired by everybody’s favorite four-letter word, with live stories told by the RAW Storytelling collective, and mini dance classes with Salsa Ninjas. And romance doesn’t come with a hefty price tag: tickets cost just 10 dollars. vizcaya.org.

Party at PAMM Pérez Art Museum Miami has been home to some of the city’s finest blowouts over the years, and two of the biggest yearly parties drop soon. Art + Soul returns Feb. 15 to raise money for African-American art and coincides with a new exhibit opening soon titled Meleko Mokgoshi: Your Trip to Africa. Then buckle up for Art of the Party, the museum’s largest yearly fundraiser, on March 7, which last year raised a million bucks. pamm.org.

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Instagram-Ready Art The idea began with a premise: bring people into an exotic world celebrating Florida’s picturesque natural attributes. To pull this off, Key West’s Audubon House & Tropical Gardens converted a room into a tropical paradise, complete with neon-pink AstroTurf, a key-lime couch, colorful walls of artwork, a garden sprouting from the ceiling and holograms spinning wildly above.

Celebrating the birds beloved by naturalist John James Audubon, the house describes the room as Instagram ready, with a tropical vibe perfect for your next profile pic. audubonhouse.com.

Human Rights Through Buildings It might not seem obvious that researchers would turn to buildings to investigate human rights abuses. But that’s exactly what’s happening in the growing discipline of forensic architecture. Learn about the emergent field of study at a new show at the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, which delves into how 3D animations, virtual reality and digital models can help amass evidence for war crime investigators. On Feb. 19, catch a talk with Eyal Weizman, the British-Israeli architect and pioneer of forensic architecture. mdcmoad.org.

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Isola – Vanilla + Coffee Body Scrub Beauty editors have long agreed that coffee grinds are an excellent exfoliant. Add cane sugar and vanilla to the mix, and you've got skin that is silky, smooth, and tempting to the senses. isolabody.com.

ESSENTIAL TO OUR WELL-BEING Meet Mariel Muniz, who is curing her clients with her custom blended oils.

Raised with a belief that natural remedies solve all problems, Mariel Muniz has always trusted in the power of self-healing.

A year ago, the Sony Film executive-cum-certified aromatherapist launched Abatey, her very own beauty brand of essential oils. Like many chefs we read about, it all started in the kitchen of her home, which she shares with her husband and three children. Acknowledging a higher purpose to help people heal through natural remedies, Muniz created a user-friendly company that allows for two options: purchasing her pre-batched concoctions (including blends that aid with sleep, chakra-balancing, immune support and other concerns) or creating a bespoke product to meet your beauty or health needs.

Muniz’s masterfully created items include natural insect repellent (ideal for South Florida or travels to exotic locations) and contain ingredients like ginger, lavender, orange, grapefruit, peppermint, eucalyptus, neroli or cardamom.

Fun fact: once you apply the oils, they hit your blood stream in just 30-seconds for instant results. To book, please contact: mmuniz@abatey.com or for more information, visit abatey.com.

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Beauty defies simple definition but we all recognize it when we see it. Yet it is very much in the eye of the beholder and can be vastly disagreed upon. So it’s important to understand a patient’s sense of beauty and their aesthetic goals since the patient is the one who matters. That’s why I typically need to meet with a prospective patient several times before surgery. In the end, our job is to serve the patient, not ourselves, and they will be the final judge of our work. Happy patient, happy surgeon.

W H AT I S T H E B E S T A DV I C E F O R PAT I E N T S ?

Reputation is easily claimed but takes years to actually build through good, consistent work. Thoroughly research your surgeon in terms of actual training in Plastic Surgery.

Look for certification by the 82 year-old ‘American Board of Plastic Surgery’ and for hospital admitting privileges - they’re required to check a doctor’s credentials biannually. Ask your personal physician or friends for an opinion. Online reviews deserve consideration but with a ‘grain of salt’ since they can be rather easily manipulated.

Interview several plastic surgeons - get a feel about the doctor and staff. Ask critical questions and listen: what’s the chance for complications and how would they be managed? And of course look at before-and-after photos!

W H AT I S T H E M O S T I N N OVAT I V E P R O C E D U R E O R T E C H N I Q U E I N YO U R F I E L D O R S P E C I A LT Y ?

In the area of facial rejuvenation, the evolution from just tightening skin on the outside to lifting the face from within, by restoring sagging infrastructure plus removing excess skin, has allowed for markedly more natural and longer lasting results. Skin tightening alone has been the principal reason for surgical and stretched looking faces, along with unfavorable scars and distortions no one really wants. The judicious, aesthetically guided addition of facial volume with fat or HA fillers, Botox, certain lasers and of course good dermatological skin care has further improved outcomes for patients.

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THE HOT SAUCE

“With Truff Hot Sauce, I feel like they have their own lane when it comes to hot sauce and it just tastes good on every single thing. My favorite, favorite one is the Red, the hotter sauce.” $17.98, truffhotsauce.com

THE TREAT

“I like rum and what I like about Luxcakery’s rum cream bundt cake is it’s super moist. The rum is not overpowering and it’s not drawn out in the cake as well; I think she found a really good formula.” 754-400-1915; luxcakery.com.

THE CURE

“I actually had the hangover ramen from Go Bistro when I was hungover. It has spam in it and eggs, so it’s almost like a breakfast brunch ramen. The hot broth wakes you up.”

315 Northwest 25th Street in Miami; 786-332-3597; eatgobistro.com

my 305 style CHEF DANIE ABRAHAM A celebrity chef for over a decade, Danie describes her style as “super eclectic,” using the influence of her Caribbean roots and travels to tickle the taste buds of clients from Drake, Pharrell Williams, Oprah and Kylie Jenner.

THE KNIFE

“Of course I have tons of knives, but the Aura chef’s knife is definitely my favorite. It has California broiled wood inside the handle and gemstones like onyx.

And it’s made in America!” $590, aurachef.com.

THE TRUFFLES

“Nelson’s Gourmet House is a small family operated business in New York. They get the truffles right when they are ready and will have it for you within 24 hours.

Honeys, different nuts, meats from a butcher they work with, they made it so much simpler to get ingredients to people that I need. nelsongourmethouse.com.

THE COAT

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THE SMOKING GUN

“I like smoky sushi and I also smoke my cocktails.

I love doing that with the Breville Smoking Gun. A lot of people are surprised when I give them a dish you wouldn’t think would have any smoke flavor in it at all.” $99.95; Williams Sonoma, 8888 Southwest 136th Street #470, Miami; 305-378-5046; williams-sonoma.com.

CARINA MASK

“Chef’s coats make me look super huge or mannish. Sandra Harvey Designs makes these chef coats attractive and they look really nice.

As soon as I put it on, I just feel really good, I feel feminine.

I absolutely love every single one of her designs, but the Yasmeen is the one I wear the most.” $118, sandraharvey.com.

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1. David Webb 18k polished nail link bracelet, $12,300. Neiman Marcus at Merrick Park. 385 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables; 305-576-3501; neimanmarcus.com. 2. Origami 18K micro cable link bracelet, $14,500. David Yurman at Bal Harbour Shops. 9700 Collins Avenue, Bal Harbour; 305-867-1772; davidyurman.com. 3. Alberto Milani Via Senato 18K gold & diamond link bracelet, $8,800. Saks Fifth Avenue at Bal Harbour Shops. 9700 Collins Avenue, Bal Harbour; 305-865-1100; saksfifthavenue.com. 4. Gold link bracelet with large diamond clasp, $8,720. Luis Morais. 235 Lincoln Road #301, by appointment; 305-695-2830, Miami Beach; luismorais.com. 5. Ippolita crinkle link bracelet in 18k gold, $2,895. Bloomingdale’s at Aventura Mall. 19555 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura; 305-792-1000; bloomingdales.com. 6. Arabesque rose gold chain bracelet with diamonds, $48,000. Pomellato at Aventura Mall. 19501 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura; 305-690-7726; pomellato.com. 7. 18k Gold Oro Classic bracelet, $3,700. Roberto Coin. 30 Northeast 40th Street, Design District; 305-576-4466; robertocoin.com. 8. Men’s Makers narrow chain bracelet in 18k gold, $6,800. Tiffany & Co. 114 Northeast 39th Street, Design District; 305-428-1390; tiffany.com.

9. Elizabeth Locke Remini link bracelet 19k yellow gold & diamonds, $9,800. King Jewelers.18265 Biscayne Boulevard, North Miami Beach; 305-935-4900; kings1912.com.

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the local PHILANTHROPY

By Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard

“Burrata with anchovies at Strada.”

Bronwyn Miller

“Chicken at Le Zoo.” Daniela Swaebe

“Norman Van Aken’s pan seared Ruhm painted grouper.”

Kim Wood

Eilah Beavers

“Ribeye from Prime 112.”

Martica Membiela

Suzy Buckley Woodward

“The meatballs at Cecconi’s Miami.”

Caroli Iacovelli

In between delicious sips and bites, we asked the dressed-in-pink invitees of Women of Tomorrow’s annual Rosé Day Luncheon…

What is your favorite dish at a South Florida restaurant

“Grilled octopus from Amara at Paraiso.”

Svetlana Gafurova

“Ginger salmon from Joe’s Stone Crab.”

Millinda Sinnreich

“Meatballs at Macaluso.”

Marissa Toccin Lucas

“Chicken Paillard from Sylvano Miami Beach.”

Jennifer Valoppi

WHAT: The much-anticipated afternoon soiree enticed Miami’s philanthropic set to support and delight in the 5th Annual Rosé Day® luncheon to benefit the Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program.

WHO: The sold-out charitable benefit was chaired by the powerful team of WOT Program founder and President, Jennifer Valoppi, and Philanthropy Chair, Marisa Toccin Lucas, along “Any pasta from with Board members Daniela Il Gabbiano.”

Swaebe, Suzy Buckley Woodward Christy Martin and Carol Iacovelli, who spoke beautifully during the afternoon program about empowering the young women in our community and beyond.

WHERE: Cecconi’s at the Soho Beach House opened its magical outdoor patio to welcome benefactors, who toasted the Program with rosé as champagne bottles lit up with mini-sparklers to celebrate the day.

WHY: The Women of Tomorrow mission is to inspire, motivate and empower at-risk young women to live up to their full potential through a unique group mentoring program with highly accomplished professional women and scholarship opportunities.

“Veal from Caffe Abbracci.”

Swanee DiMare

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“Yellow tail sashimi at Zuma.”

Missy Graver

“Baked pasta at Cipriani.”

Gigi Whitman

Suzie Sayfie

“Both my daughter Annia and I love the avocado toast at Le Pain Quitoden.”

Marile Lopez

“Bread from Zak the Baker at any restaurant.”

Belkys Nerey

“Oxtail fried rice at Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill.”

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Elegantly restored 1925 Mediterranean Revival home originally commissioned by George Merrick. 6/6 on 16,500 SF corner lot.

ADDRESS 2817 Columbus Boulevard, Coral Gables OFFERED AT $1,700,000

Vivian Serralta 305.772.7717 VivianSerraltaTeam.com

5002sw86street.com

GRAND TROPICAL ESTATE IN COVETED PONCE/DAVIS Lush builder’s acre home on the most secluded street in Ponce-Davis. 6BR/7.5BA, grand spaces, gourmet kitchen, volume ceilings, master with oversized balcony. Large porch with pecky cypress ceilings, pool, gas firepit, 3-car garage & generator.

ADDRESS 5002 SW 86 Street, Ponce/Davis

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 AshleyCusack.com

OFFERED AT $3,750,000

Waterfront Old Spanish 3/2 home w/ separate 1/1 cottage. Dock for up to 25’ boat. Close to Beach & Normandy GC. 9,700 SF lot.

ADDRESS 1461 Marseille Drive, Miami Beach OFFERED AT $1,190,000

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Juanita Lopez 305.803.4891 JuanitaLopez.ewm.com

4400Segovia.com

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING – SUPERB UPDATES – MODERN FEEL

LOVELY HOME IN GREAT GABLES LOCATION

Beautiful 5/4.5 with 5,369 ASF on 32,028 SF lush lot. Great entertaining spaces, gorgeous island kitc, new Italian porcelain flrs, impact wndws/drs. Amazing pool & covered patio, 2-car gar.

Updated 4/2, large rooms, open floor plan, formal LR & DR, spacious fam rm, wood floors.

Beautiful deep double lot with room for a pool. Chicago brick paver driveway. 2-Car gar.

ADDRESS 6100 SW 128 Street, Pinecrest

ADDRESS 4400 Segovia Street, Coral Gables

OFFERED AT $1,925,000

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 AshleyCusack.com

OFFERED AT $1,049,000

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 Drew Kern 305.282.3000

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3845Wood.com Exquisite 4/4.5 on 14,806 SF lot in Ye Little Wood. Perfectly updated, new 1st floor master, designer kit. Special guest house.

ADDRESS 3845 Wood Avenue, Coconut Grove OFFERED AT $2,075,000

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 Barbara Merkle 305.281.5093

629Santander.com

1690SBayshore.com

Superbly finished sleek 3/3.5 townhome, built 2016, large courtyard, living rm, fam rm, magnificent master. Elevator, 2-car gar.

ADDRESS 629 Santander Avenue, TH7 | Coral Gables OFFERED AT $1,249,000 RENT $6,300 per month

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 AshleyCusack.com

SPECTACULAR RESIDENCE IN THE GROVE OVERLOOKING BISCAYNE BAY Grand 2-story condo – entire 10th floor & half of 11th floor. Rarely avail 5BR/5.5BA. Panoramic Bay views, balconies run length of the unit on both levels. Amenities of a condo – convenience of a home. Includes deeded boat slip & 6 parking spaces.

ADDRESS 1690 South Bayshore Lane, Unit 10A | Coconut Grove OFFERED AT $3,100,000

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Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 AshleyCusack.com

10102HiddenPlace.com

EXQUISITE PINECREST HOME ON BEAUTIFUL TREE-LINED STREET

SERENE PRIVATE RETREAT – CONTEMPORARY STYLING

Beautiful 5/4.5 with 5,997 Adj. SF on lush 33,105 SF lot. Great entertaining spaces, gorgeous island kit, Italian porcelain flrs, impact windows/drs. Amazing pool & patio, 2-car gar.

Sun-filled 6,266-SF home, 5/5.5, huge 44,000+ SF lot. Volume ceilings, oversized windows, grand kitchen, 2-story master suite. Covered patio, re-purposed tennis court, pool, 2-car gar.

ADDRESS 11401 SW 69 Avenue, Pinecrest

ADDRESS 10102 Hidden Place, Pinecrest

OFFERED AT $2,275,000

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 AshleyCusack.com

OFFERED AT $2,231,000

Ashley Cusack 305.798.8685 AshleyCusack.com

© 2019 BHH Affiliates, LLC. An independently owned and operated franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc.® Equal Housing Opportunity.

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Home is here.

Oceanfront luxury at Fisher Island - 3/3.5, approx 4,600 SF + 5 terraces. Open layout, library, chef’s kitchen, exquisite details.

ADDRESS 7842 Fisher Island Drive, Miami Beach OFFERED AT $6,399,000

Nancy Batchelor 305.903.2850 NancyBatchelor.com

1251BellaVista.com

WATERFRONT TREASURE IN GABLES BY THE SEA – DIRECT ACCESS TO BAY Exquisite 5BR/6.5BA, fully reconstructed in 2019. Over 5,200 ASF on 15,000+ lot. Fine details from 24"x48" European porcelain floors to chef’s dream kitchen. Private master with east-facing balcony. Pool, private 50' seawall, 24-hr guarded enclave.

ADDRESS 1251 Bella Vista Avenue, Coral Gables

Nancy Sanabria 305.785.4491 SanabriaTeam.com

OFFERED AT $4,100,000

Elegant newer construction courtyard pool home, 4/4 with bright family-friendly layout, 3,500 total SF. Soaring ceilings.

ADDRESS 4420 Anderson Road, Coral Gables OFFERED AT $1,735,000

Nancy Batchelor 305.903.2850 NancyBatchelor.com

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WHIMSICAL – 140 FEET WATERFRONT – PERFECTION

LUXE LIVING IN PINECREST – SPLENDID ‘FOREVER’ HOME

Originally designed by Igor Polevitsky, totally modernized. Open living areas, pool/spa, summer kit, 3/3 guest house, 3-car gar, all impact. 10BR/9.5BA, 8,676 Total SF, 21,140 SF lot, dock.

Gorgeous, gated residence on lush tropical builder’s acre. Totally redone, chef’s kit, lavish master, dual office, home theater, yoga studio, fitness rm, 3-car gar + lift. Full house generator.

ADDRESS 6301 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach

ADDRESS 6333 SW 104 Street, Pinecrest

OFFERED AT $ 7,850,000

Esther Percal 305.674.4022 EstherPercal.com

OFFERED AT $2,225,000

Vanessa Kayes 305.301.9297 Val Byrne 305.323.6231

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Stunning 2-story 4/5.5 with 6,692 SF floor plan. Exquisite details throughout. 150' WF, ocean access, boat slip, large dock.

ADDRESS 349 Center Island Drive, Golden Isles OFFERED AT $5,499,000

Kenny Raymond 786.443.9649 EliteMiamiProperty.com

Unique architectural design, completely updated modern 8/8 smart house. 8,683 SF LA, lush 40,075 SF lot. Pool, summer kit.

ZEN INSPIRED ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST RESIDENCE IN PRESTIGIOUS PONCE DAVIS

ADDRESS 8505 SW 53 Avenue, Ponce/Davis

One-of-a-kind custom designed contemporary estate on 1.5 acres. Stunning interior & exterior spaces. 8BR/9.5BA Main Home 9,384 SF | Guest Villa 3,239 SF | 4-Car Gar | Limestone & driftwood floors | Summer kitchen pavilion | Crestron system | Elevator

OFFERED AT $4,299,000

ADDRESS 4965 / 4945 SW 82 Street, Ponce/Davis

Kenny Raymond 786.443.9649 EliteMiamiProperty.com

OFFERED AT $9,995,000

Rose Harris 305.804.7673 RoseHarrisGroup.com

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ROMANTIC ESTATE IN CORAL GABLES – A TREASURE!

ELEGANT PONCE-DAVIS SOPHISTICATE

Historically designated on gated 17,109 SF lot near Biltmore Hotel. Classic 4/4.5 (4,823 SF), grand spaces, frml LR with fireplace, executive library, remodeled kit. Pool, detached guest qrtrs. Impact.

Striking 4/4 on no-thru street. Grand social spaces, library/office, divine master, stylish kitchen & baths. Elevator, volume ceilings, travertine floors, brick courtyards & terrace. Sunset Elemen.

ADDRESS 3501 Granada Boulevard, Coral Gables

ADDRESS 7830 SW 48 Court, Ponce/Davis

OFFERED AT $2,200,000

Val Byrne 305.323.6231 MiamiRealEstateWorks.com

OFFERED AT $1,569,000

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(Blue) BOX

Just in time for Miami’s big Super Bowl moment, Tiffany & Co.’s Reed Krakoff chats with INDULGE about the luxury brand’s latest men’s collection inspired by their history in the world of sports.

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the AFC Championship, NFC Championship and Super Bowl MVP Trophies. All of these were recently on display at Tiffany & Co. at Bal Harbour Shops in celebration of Super Bowl LIV. Sports fanatics take note: Some of the same techniques, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, that were used to make these trophies are being used to make the new men’s collection. It’s also where the new collection derives its name: Tiffany 1837 Makers.

“Each piece that is crafted by hand receives a hallmark to symbolize the techniques used in the process and this hallmark served as inspiration for the Makers motif,” Krakoff says. These pieces also carry the same stamp that appears on the trophies: T & CO MAKERS. There’s also the NY and AG925 stamped onto each piece of the collection, as well.

In keeping with the trophy theme, the Tiffany 1837 Makers Trophy Ring is a made-to-order piece that celebrates the craftsmanship of taking a “completely flat piece of metal and creating the most extraordinary three-dimensional pieces that I have ever seen,” Krakoff says.

But if football isn’t your game of choice, not to worry.

The collection’s offerings include showstoppers like a one-ofa-kind, handcrafted solid sterling silver and 18k yellow gold vermeil chess set. It serves as both an enthralling game and a conversation piece.

Or if sipping spirits is more your sport, the collection of barware should be the perfect trophy to add to your bar.

Flasks, cocktail shakers, cocktail jiggers, bottle openers, beer mugs, ice tongs and serving trays make up the new stock.

And the celebrations they will endure will be Super Bowl sized, we’re sure. WORDS BY GINGER HARRIS Showcasing modern spins on traditionally masculine items, the new men’s collection designed

by Reed Krakoff (above) features sophisticated silver details on everything from beer mugs to domino sets, and sleek jewelry designs.

PORTRAIT COURTESY; JONATHAN NESTERUK (STILL-LIFE IMAGES)

n an era of female-positive headlines, Tiffany & Co. is making one of its own to empower not just her this time around but him. The brand behind luxury goods launches its new men’s line, Tiffany 1837 Makers, a collection of jewelry, accessories, barware, games and home goods all geared toward men who enjoy the finer things in life — housed in its famously blue box, of course.

“Men have become more focused on their personal style and curating not only their wardrobes but curating their lifestyles, so it felt like the right idea and the right time to introduce a comprehensive lifestyle collection,” Chief Artistic Officer Reed Krakoff says. “Tiffany has a history of offering traditional jewelry. I wanted to broaden the men’s category to offer more modern and casual jewelry and have the collection represent more aspects of people’s lives.” Those other aspects refer to the new collection’s home goods and accessories with a masculine slant. Think leather notebooks, sterling silver shoe horns, compasses and sterling combs.

And it’s all inspired by something landing in our own backyard come early next month: Trophies. Tiffany has a longstanding history of designing trophies like the Super Bowl Vince Lombardi Trophy, which will be handed out right here in Miami on Sunday, February 2, 2020. Tiffany also has a hand in crafting

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the local A DAISY THING Gigi Whitman poses with her 1970 Mercedes-Benz convertible. The indoor table is a casual, rustic design inspired by Tuscany, using lemons in rough-hewn wooden bowls, bright yellow plaid napkins and less formal floral arrangements.

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n invitation to a Gigi Whitman event is highly coveted and for those fortunate enough to have attended one or more of these gatherings, it quickly becomes evident she possesses professional caliber party-planning skills. “I want people to have a great time and let their hair down,” she states. Her passion for fun shines through in surprising, often hilarious, details along with delicious food and her must-have rosé champagne. Her jumping off point? “It starts with a theme and then everything flows from there,” she says of her inspiration for decorations, flowers, menu and entertainment.

Gigi’s husband of 25 years is Randy Whitman, managing partner at Bal Harbour Shops, the family business. They have four grown children with whom they travel to their summer home in Aspen, Colorado, or to the Bahamas on their boat. Gigi was born in New York, grew up on Miami Beach and her love of art led her to majoring in fashion merchandising and interior design in college. Her talent for decorating is everywhere throughout their 10,000-square foot home. Built in 2018, it’s a grand, modernized version of an old Florida vernacular house and has the elegant, breezy feel of a home in the Hamptons. “When we built it, we added more space for entertaining, but I simplified. I used to own 10 sets of china and silver, no more! Now it’s easy,” she says. The home has a

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full-size custom bar with a gleaming, black marble top, worthy of the finest restaurant. “The one in our old house was too small, yet everyone crowded around it,” she says. “This one’s perfect for any party, no matter how big.”

Gigi’s 60th birthday theme was “60 SUCKS,” a point made by fivefoot-tall letters covered in masses of hot pink balloons spelling it out on the back lawn and a three-foot-tall replica of a lollipop “sucker” as big as a basketball as the main centerpiece. The Fourth of July/birthday party in Aspen was next with a Mexican food theme. “I wanted a food truck, a tent with multi-colored flags, Karaoke and neon margaritas,” she explains and deadpans, “the cake was topped by a big taco with a face that said, ‘I’m turning 60 and I don’t want to TACO about it!’”

Then there was the 1960s psychedelic bash called “Randy’s Groovy 69th,” with guests in mini-dresses and mod boots and long-haired hippies in Woodstock T-shirts and tie-dye jeans, dancing on a clear dance floor (placed over the pool) which changed colors to the beat of the music.

“The point is for my friends to have a great time,” she says, eyes twinkling.

“It’s a good party when it’s supposed to end at 10:00 p.m. and people are still there at midnight!”

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Philanthropist and society A-lister, Gigi Whitman known for her legendary bashes, shares her no-fail favorites, which elevate entertaining from average to memorable.

The outdoor table, which seats 20, is ready for a Spring luncheon with floral décor by Zbliss Shop Miami and white, Italian Vietri china and crystal. Contributing Lifestyle Editor Daisy Olivera with Gigi Whitman.

GIGI’S GO TOs Pick a theme with bold colors: Carry the colors throughout the house.

SIMPLIFY: Use white china. You can completely change the look of a table by using different color napkins, chargers, flowers and accessories.

MIX HIGH/LOW: Combine expensive heirloom silver flatware with fun, trendy accessories.

RELAX: If the host is nervous it’s not fun. Don’t overthink it! Enjoy!

BEST FLORIST: ZBliss Shop Miami.

They can do anything I come up with. @zbliss.shop.

BEST CATERER: Sara Sharpe.

Consistent, great quality.

BEST CAKES: Cake Lounge Miami.

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BEST CHAMPAGNE: Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé champagne. It’s light and goes with everything.

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{RAINMAKER}

Timon Balloo With his latest restaurant, chef Timon Balloo dives deep with a menu as diverse in its make up as the man himself.

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“The new place represents a time for Balloo to finally tap into all those things that made him different as a kid.”

Recently, Balloo felt the itch to revisit that rich heritage which made him the very opposite of normal — special. When it came time to open his own restaurant late last year, he started thinking about the ethnicity he had somewhat closeted. As a nod to his family and background, he calls his new place Balloo; his last name obviously, but also a recognition of his legacy.

The restaurant’s dishes have Asian and Caribbean influences mostly. In part because of that unique combination, the downtown Miami eatery has quickly built a following — and a likable collage of Instagram pics of his dishes.

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n an unbelievably short amount of time, Timon Balloo downright forgot how to speak Chinese.

His mom had enrolled him in a Cantonese-speaking preschool, where he learned it fluently. Then he started public school, where at the time being different didn’t necessarily equate to being popular or accepted. In Balloo’s head, mainstream was the way to go.

“As a kid, I just simply forgot how to speak Cantonese.” Balloo recalls.

“My mom would try to talk to me in the language, and I would just refuse to speak it.” From his two parents, he’s a combination of Chinese, AfricanAmerican, Trinidadian, Venezuelan and Indian. But for an early part of his life, he just wanted to be normal, whatever that is.

CULTURAL FUSION As an adult, Balloo has been lauded for his successful career as one of Miami’s top chefs — training with some of the best in the business on the way there. His affable personality and savvy with ingredients made his first major Miami kitchen, Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, one of the city’s most popular hot spots with locals during the dawn of Midtown and throughout the past decade, and garnered a distinction as a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation’s “Best New Restaurant” award.

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A LIVING MELTING POT Back when he was that little kid refusing to speak Chinese, his life was a fairly constant stream of change. His parents divorced when he was a toddler, and then he and his mom moved an astounding 15 times in 15 years. His mom, who typically made veggie-heavy stir-fries, soon got remarried to a Jamaican man and started adding callaloo and peas and rice to her cooking repertoire.

That exposure to food from all over the world influenced Balloo’s desire to make a life on the culinary scene.

After high school, his girlfriend at the time handed him an application for a line chef job at a sports bar. Following a short, unsuccessful stint studying finance at Florida International University, that first job in a restaurant slinging bar food cemented that desire he had to cook, and Balloo started taking culinary school classes a couple nights a week. “I was like an addict. I couldn’t get enough of being in the kitchen,” Balloo recalls.

SWEET SUCCESS Balloo worked under superstars Allen Susser and Michelle Bernstein before taking the head chef job in 2008 at Sugarcane, where he spent 10 years before deciding to open up his own restaurant. The new place represents a time for Balloo to finally tap into all those things that made him different as a kid. It’s not only the ethnicities, but what he learned from Susser and Bernstein — and from the girlfriend, Marissa, who gave him that restaurant application years ago.

She’s his wife now and works as the hostess on weekends (she’s also Colombian and Thai, adding two new ethnicities to Balloo’s exposure). And when the place gets really busy, their 11-year-old daughter Kirin steps in as the greeter-slash-hostess assistant.

It’s all a big change from Sugarcane (where he remains a partner), dropping from a 235-seat dining room to 35. But for the first time, Balloo says he has figured out who he is. “I’m cooking my food,” he says. “It’s 100 percent me on that plate. I’m putting out there everything I learned and everything I know about myself.”

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the movers The restaurant itself is a stunner, designed by famed New York design house Rockwell Group.

“With the open kitchen covered in wood and the countertops covered in granite and the arches looking out to graffiti murals, it gives it a very Latin American feel,” Garcia points out. Gone is the neo-industrial feel of its former identity and now the dining room is awash in a color palette of terra cottas, brass and rich greens. Large hanging lanterns fashioned of wood and leather create a rustic-yet-cozy feel in the double-height space.

Tables of chatty guests are crowded with cocktail glasses, platters of whole-fried fish, churrasco steaks and baskets of arepas. The overall vibe is warm, comforting and, well, chic.

LATIN-INSPIRED COMFORT FOOD The menu certainly reads like a map of Latin America. It starts with the basket of arepitas that Garcia grew up with in her native Venezuela, then moves on to the raw bar offerings that fuse influences from Mexico, Peru and the Caribbean.

Then on to the empanaditas from Argentina and tacos that are hand-crafted from fresh masa harina, an essential ingredient in any traditional tortilleria or areperia. “In Venezuela for example, our Caesar salad is served with watercress so I wanted to bring that peppery flavor to the dish with a cilantro touch.”

Even the Meyer Lemon roasted chicken comes with a backstory: “This is a recipe I created in my house with three ingredients I had on hand,” Garcia laughs, “Lemons, garlic and thyme. I had guests on their way to my home, so I just whipped up this marinade in the molcajete and this incredible dish came about!”

{THE PRODIGAL CHEF}

Lorena Garcia

Marking her grand return to Miami, the Venezuelan chef’s life and experiences shine through in her menu at CHICA.

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hef Lorena Garcia’s enthusiasm is contagious. The gregarious chef, known for her colorful appearances on celebrity cooking shows and multiple programs on Telemundo and Univision, and for her successful eateries in airports around the country, is walking us through the menu of her latest opening, the splashy CHICA restaurant occupying the former Soyka space in MiMo. “I’m super-excited!” she says. “This is me coming back to Miami after so many years.” This is her second outpost of CHICA, having partnered

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with local restaurateur John Kunkel of 50 Eggs to open a Las Vegas CHICA two and half years ago.

The success of that restaurant spurred them to create a Miami sibling, with its mélange of LatinAmerican flavors and influences tailored to the South Florida palate.

“It’s the same DNA as the Vegas CHICA,” explains Garcia, “but we wanted to make each location reflect the city that it’s in. Miami is where I’m from, I live here. I love the blend of cultures here. I’ve traveled all over the world, so this is a celebration of Latin America as I see it.”

AN ECLECTIC PERSPECTIVE Garcia is known not only as a chef, but as the author of two cookbooks, TV series host of the Delicioso segments of Emmy-award winning show Despierta America for Univision, co-creator, executiveproducer and host for Nickelodeon’s Food Hunters and season 4 finalist on Bravo's Top Chef Masters.

Born in Venezuela, she pivoted from a law degree there to attend Johnson & Wales University in Miami, where she received a bachelor’s degree in culinary arts. In 2002 she opened her first restaurant, Food Café, followed by Elements Tierra in Miami’s Design District. In 2011, she moved her restaurant operations into airports (currently at MIA, DFW and ATL), offering millions of travelers Lorena Garcia Tapas y Cocina. She also operates the Lorena Garcia Culinary Loft in Miami, which is available for private events, as well as film and television production.

“My cooking approach is fresh, modern and Latin,” sums up Garcia. “These are the flavors that I’ve grown up with, combined with all my travels and the techniques I’ve studied. This is the celebration of Miami as I see it.”

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Giorgio Rapicavoli The chef who epitomizes innovative Miami gastronomy keeps planting new flags all over the city.

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uddenly, Giorgio Rapicavoli, the local hero known to TV audiences from his appearances on Chopped, is everywhere. It’s not just that his seven-year-old Eating House in Coral Gables is still packing in the foodies for roasted bone marrow. Or that Coconut Grove’s Glass & Vine, going on its fourth year, continues to ring up orders of Rapicavoli’s beloved charred cauliflower. But now you can sidle up to the counter at Time Out Market in Miami Beach for the chef’s signature watermelon Caprese or his toothsome carbonara, followed by a decadent Dirt Cup — whipped Nutella, salted caramel and pretzels. Plus, the last few months have seen Wynwood become Rapicavoli territory, with the debuts of Grails and Spanglish, his side-by-side sports bar and Latin gastro-lounge.

A DAD’S LIFE Rapicavoli, who was born and raised here, says that Miami “taught me everything I know. It’s such a family oriented city with this incredible Latin culture. It’s influenced me in so many ways — where I live, how I live my life, the people, the flavors.” If family is on the chef’s mind, that’s because he’s a new parent, with his wife Amber, of a one-year-old, Luca. His new perspective informs his work with the upcoming VeritageMiami Interactive Dinner, sponsored by United Way of Miami-Dade.

“United Way speaks for itself,” Rapicavoli says. “It’s an amazing charity.

As a new father, helping other kids is more important to me than it’s ever been. The fact that the city chose me to represent it and be the name and the face is spectacular.” For the 24th annual philanthropic event, the chef will be teaching people around the city to make signature dishes based on the Eating House menu. “This will be the first time hosting the event on my own,” he says, “so I’m really looking forward to it.”

PALATE PLEASER If Eating House’s regulars can always depend on the go-to heirloom tomatoes with frozen coconut milk, Rapicavoli also insists on emphasizing seasonality and rotating dishes — as is the Italian way. The chef holds dual American and Italian citizenship, and a recent trip that took him from Naples to Piedmont reminded him of enduring culinary values: “I’m first-generation American, so my Italian culture was never diluted,” he says. “One thing I always get out of Italy is using ingredients in their prime.”

Baby Luca has eagerly signed on to the family culinary credo: “He’s one of the few kids in the world who eats pasta Bolognese but won’t touch processed mac and cheese,” Rapicavoli says. “He’s got a really good palate. Give him quality European butter and parmigiana and he’s in heaven.”

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Steven Haas

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ay goodbye to the basic rubber chicken. A new era of elevated fare is sweeping into Miami Beach’s premier meeting space thanks to Steven Haas, the Executive Director for Centerplate at the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC).

With the MBCC’s $620 million renovation complete, Centerplate, the convention center’s exclusive food and beverage purveyor, needed to up its food game. Enter Haas. As a restaurateur, entrepreneur and overall Miami foodie legend for four decades, he was the man who could create and carry out the company’s vision to revolutionize the catering menu and turn ubiquitous drab dishes into memorable meals.

REDESIGNED MENUS In an effort to add intrigue and excitement, Haas added an “Unusual Finds” section to the menu complete with ostrich, rattlesnake, alligator ribs and lionfish. While he’s yet to have a group choose one of those as a main entrée for its guests, he’s had clients add a selection to the hors d’oeuvres and cocktail reception stations.

“We are the unconventional convention center,” Haas says.

“We’re going to show you things you’ve never seen before.”

And those things are growing right here in our backyard. Reaching south to the farming community of Redland, Haas established a network of farms that supply the center with sustainable, unique produce.

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Together with executive chef Ismael Lasalle, they created extraordinary dishes for all palates and dietary restrictions — like sensational jackfruit empanadas, nectarous mamey martinis, creamy chocolate mousse made from avocados and a beet Wellington you won’t believe isn’t beef.

“I’ve worked with the top chefs in the world and Ismael can compete with every one of them,” Haas says with a proud smile. “He’s never presented me with something I wasn’t blown away with.”

The unrivaled menu quality and presentation enhances the restaurant-like experience and precise service Haas designed for the 84 meeting rooms, five ballrooms and half a million square feet of exhibition halls. The space includes the largest ballroom in South Florida, the 60,000-squarefoot Grand Ballroom, which can accommodate a dinner for 3,600 guests plus a runway, stage and dance floor. Its little sister, the nearly 20,000-square-foot Sunset Vista Ballroom features an additional 10,000 square feet in pre-function space and a 9,000-square foot wraparound balcony with gorgeous city and ocean views.

“This building was designed to keep Miami Beach busy — to get heads in beds and to fill the stores, streets, restaurants and clubs,” Haas says.

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North Miami Beach. He revels in retelling stories of his late-night high school shenanigans making pastrami sandwiches with friends.

After graduating with marketing and accounting degrees, he quickly realized a life behind a desk was not for him, and by 22 he was the general manager of The Forge.

Haas’ resume now includes prominent positions at The Mayfair, Monty’s, China Grill Management, Soyka and City Hall. He’s also the creator of Miami Spice Restaurant Month and the former chairman of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Haas’ extensive hospitality

experience and unwavering dedication to the seamless service he’s bringing to the MBCC have garnered him a slew of celebrity clients from Elizabeth Taylor to Will Smith and endless stories that are begging to be weaved into his life’s memoir. Until then, he’s excited to be celebrating two years at the MBCC this month and looking forward to creating even more exceptional experiences for his clients.

“We are changing the image of food and beverage,” he says.

“We are thinking so far out of the box that there is no box.”

WORDS BY CHRISTIE GALEANO-DEMOTT

PHOTO COURTESY STEVEN HAAS

The beloved Miami restaurateur is redefining the cuisine and service at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

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hey were working on a catering project together: Hedy Goldsmith was an upward-climbing pastry chef at the time, a few years before she’d become the acclaimed industry icon she is today; Heidi Ladell worked for Gene’s Catering, organizing everything from political events to society gatherings.

“I was smitten from day one,” Ladell recalls.

But they were both in relationships. Worse, Goldsmith was moving to Boston. She was barely gone when Ladell called her and confessed how she felt. Goldsmith took the next plane back.

That was 30 years ago, and they’ve been together ever since.

In that time, they’ve risen to the tops of their industries, walked away from it all to move out of town and then returned to Miami for entirely new and exciting challenges.

MISSION ACCEPTED As of late last year, Goldsmith became the head chef at Verde, the restaurant with the stellar views at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Ladell, meanwhile, took a job at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden with the task of reinventing and rethinking how people experience the place.

In the few months she has served as the garden’s chief experience officer, or CXO, Ladell has dreamed up a line of products that include ingredients grown on Fairchild property. The Fresh From Fairchild products, which can be purchased at the gift shop, include Goldsmith-inspired chocolate biscotti and sweet-salty shortbread cookies spiced with rosemary grown on the property. The garden will also be adding a test kitchen where culinary events will be held.

“People always say Fairchild is this hidden gem that not everyone knows about,” Ladell says. “I want to help make it less of a secret. I want the garden to be something that people want to come back to over and over.”

{CULINARY COMBO}

Hedy Goldsmith & Heidi Ladell The renowned pastry chef and her caterer-to-the-stars wife begin the new decade at two of Miami’s notable hot-spots, PAMM and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

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2020 VISION For Goldsmith, the move back from Los Angeles at the end of 2018 began with a stint working for the 50 Eggs restaurant group. In December she landed at Verde, where celebrity chef Stephen Starr once reigned over a restaurant known mostly for brunch on the sprawling bayfront patio.

The move from pastry to head chef is something Goldsmith says is not too far afield. She started her career on a restaurant line, and her desserts are known for balancing sweet and savory.

“I’m so excited. I’m beyond thrilled,” she said just days before starting the new position. “I just can’t wait to get my clogs in the kitchen again.”

She’ll make her presence known on the brunch menu first, since that’s what the place is best known for, before turning her attention to lunch and dinner. For years now, Verde has opened only one day a week for dinner, something Goldsmith hopes can expand.

Looking for inspiration, she’ll tap into the things she’s always made for Ladell. “I don’t bake at home,” she says. “I come home, and, to relax, I cook.”

Besides, Ladell has never been into sweets. Even though she’s married to one of the country’s foremost pastry chefs, she’s still not a dessert person. And that’s exactly how Goldsmith likes it.

“I think one reason our relationship has worked for 30 years is that we challenge each other,” Goldsmith says. “I think it would be boring if she were just gushing over what I make all the time.

Instead, she makes me work harder at it.”

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hen we sold our company, we set aside eight figures for philanthropy,” says Leila Centner, a force, with her husband David, in the world of Miami giving.

The company she’s referring to is Highway Toll Administration, which was sold to Platinum Equity 17 years after David founded it. The sale itself made business headlines; the sale price remained undisclosed. But it was a tidy sum that has allowed the Centners to direct funds to benefit underserved women and children. “We do a mix of philanthropy and non-philanthropy,” Leila explains, “but all our businesses are about elevating humanity.”

Miami born and raised, David says his upbringing was “hardscrabble,” but he managed to notch a BS from Wharton. After that, there was no stopping the pioneering digital entrepreneur as he founded and sold several companies before settling in for his longest tenure, with the tolling technology company, which he has described as “the first, largest, and most advanced tolling solutions provider in the world.” By the time Leila, a native Californian, came onboard as CFO (the two had had their first date in Laguna Beach and things took off from there), the USC grad had built a resume that included roles at Arthur Anderson and Deloitte.

TEACHING THE WHOLE The couple moved to Miami two and a half years ago, and perhaps their highest profile project is Centner Academy, a highly innovative, multilingual private school (English, Spanish and Mandarin) that treats students holistically. “There’s an emotional intelligence component, a nutritional component, and a mindfulness component,” Leila explains.

“Our students start the day with meditation. When the child is calm and peaceful, it’s so much easier to teach them academics.”

As Leila tells it, the lessons transcend the classroom: “We’ve heard stories about a child telling her mother, ‘Mommy, you don’t look very happy right now. You need to take three deep breaths.’” Launched as a preschool in the Design District, Centner Academy will expand into a just-purchased 35,000-square-foot building to educate middle school and high school kids. “We’ll have a capacity of 1,400 students next year,” Leila says. “Centner Academy is my passion.”

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FEEDING THE SOUL Recently, the Centners helped found the Culinary Center at the Lotus House Women’s Shelter thanks to a multi-year, multimillion-dollar pledge. “They do wonderful work for women and children in the community,” David says. “If you were to go there, you’d think you were in a high-end hotel food service facility. They train women so they’ll have marketable skills in the hospitality and restaurant industries.” Leila adds, “If you save one woman’s life, you transform the lives of her kids and their future kids. We found that if you can break the cycle of poverty, six months later most of these women have jobs and have reentered society.”

OPRAH-ESQUE As the Centners develop new initiatives, from purchasing parcels in opportunity zones in Edgewater to spearheading a program to send disadvantaged kids to Fun Dimension Miami, the two are acutely and happily aware of their synergy. Leila says David is “super-strategic, always thinking long-term.” And to David, “Leila’s the vision, the spiritual leader of our home. I jokingly refer to myself as the Stedman to her Oprah.”

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The exterior of Mount Sinai's Skolnick Surgical Tower, which opened in 2019.

CENTER OF SURGICAL INNOVATION MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER REVOLUTIONIZES THE INDUSTRY WITH NEW APPLICATIONS FOR HIGH-TECH ROBOTIC SURGERY. Cutting edge technology, world class physicians and an environment designed to promote healing combine to create outstanding patient experiences at Mount Sinai Medical Center. A state-of-the-art surgical tower celebrating its first anniversary and a successful robotics program have enhanced the ability of doctors to perform life saving procedures that are minimally invasive, require less time in the operating room and offer shorter recoveries.

Mount Sinai has a legacy of serving the community with innovative programs, and as a surgical destination with a highly-skilled surgical team.

Now it’s taking the lead in technology.

Mount Sinai surgeons have already completed thousands of procedures using the da Vinci, a robotic surgical system controlled by a speciallytrained surgeon from a console providing highly magnified 3D imaging. Until recently, most of the robotic surgeries have been performed for conditions affecting the lungs and urinary system. But Mount Sinai has taken their robotics program a step further by utilizing the da Vinci in heart surgeries — the only surgical program in South Florida to be doing so.

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The minimally invasive robotic procedure has shown great benefits for patients. Hospital stays are shorter, and recovery is quicker. “And the cosmetic results are much better, with minimal scarring,” says Dr. Steve Xydas, Chief of Cardiac Surgery.

The spacious hybrid suite combines an operating theater with the high definition imaging capabilities of a catheterization lab, providing imaging not just for the physician, but for everyone in the room. “The staff can see exactly what the surgeon is seeing,” says Dr. Xydas. “It’s excellent for efficiency and communication, and it’s a great tool to have as a teaching hospital.”

“The hybrid operating suite with the da Vinci robot has revolutionized our ability to do complex procedures in the chest with ease and precision,” says Dr. Roy Williams, Chief of Thoracic Surgery.

“It’s extremely precise and the results are superb.”

Mount Sinai is one of Florida’s original statutory teaching hospitals, and the medical center’s cardiac program is the only Ivy League cardiac program in South Florida, affiliated with Columbia University.

Dr. Steve Xydas, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, performs a surgical procedure in Mount Sinai's new hybrid operating room.

The new surgical tower's amenities, like the private patient rooms and the spacious lobby with healing artwork, have transformed the patient experience.

Above: Dr. Roy Williams, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, and Dr. Xydas seen with the DaVinci robot in the hybrid OR suite. Left: The surgical tower was constructed to maximize the healing views of Biscayne Bay throughout the patient and visitor areas.

The teaching affiliation is a testament to Mount Sinai’s cardiac team’s skill and experience led by Dr. Xydas. Combined with Mount Sinai’s expertise in robotics, it creates access to cuttingedge procedures. “We’re very proud of the robotic team we’ve assembled,” Dr. Xydas says. “We’re the most experienced in the region, and it shows in our results.” The future looks exciting. “The continuing expansion of robotics technology is built on layers of experience, and our team puts Mount Sinai in a unique position,” Dr. Xydas says.

“We can continue to grow and offer patients and our community the newest and greatest surgical techniques available,” Dr. Williams adds.

The patient experience doesn’t, of course, begin or end in the operating room. The new tower also offers world class amenities like spacious rooms, beautiful views of Biscayne Bay, comfortable waiting areas, tasty food, and a streamlined process that takes patients seamlessly through pre- and post-operative care. “The only problem is,” Dr. Williams says with a chuckle, “they don’t want to go home.” WORDS BY JANA SOELDNER DANGER

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D I N I N G . E N T E R TA I N I N G .

AND GETTING OUT IN THE 305.

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ONCE UPON A

FELIPE CUEVAS (PEDESTAL CREATIVE DESSERT COMPANY)

PIE

A peachy idea: the Mango Peachango pie from Pedestal Creative Dessert Company.

Any way you slice it, these South Florida bakers are the upper crust.

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t’s just after lunch time at Fireman Derek’s Bakeshop in Wynwood, where two guys are casually sitting on stools sharing a wedge of pie, as workers cut hefty slices to refresh the emptying case raided by nearby workers and out-of-towners. On a regular day, I’m told, a few hundred slices of pie leave the shop. Pies aren’t just for holidays or special occasions anymore — bakers like Derek Kaplan, a former Miami firefighter who gained fame for his cult-like Salted Caramel pie dusted with powdered sugar, chocolate pecan and to-die-for Key lime, have turned pie into an everyday affair. “The Key lime is still my favorite,” says Kaplan, who always keeps the pie in his freezer.

“I eat chunks of it at a time. Take a big spoonful, squirt some whip cream on it and go to town.”

Pie is such big business that Kaplan recently expanded to Coconut Grove with a much larger store. The key to his success is something we don’t often see in Miami: consistency. “We have a pretty set menu,” Kaplan says.

“We understand that people like new flavors, but you don’t want to get too far away from what you’re known for.” Racks are stacked with around 15 pies, made at a commissary in Little Haiti, with top sellers like the Cookie Monster with Oreo cheesecake filling and smothered with chocolate chip cookies; the Sundae pie loaded with enough sprinkles and whip cream to make any child’s eyes pop; and the Salty Monkey, stacked with chocolate, peanut butter, sweet bananas, and crushed pretzels. The new, oh-soMiami Cafecito pie, with a salted caramel filling infused with freshly ground espresso, is so loved that it will be a regular, too.

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the life Clockwise top left: Dive into a slice or two of The Baked Bunny’s array of options including lemon, blueberry and peanut butter; Fireman Derek’s Cafecito pie; Pink Pie’s tiny temptations in S’mores (above) and Key lime (below) flavors; Fireman Derek’s savory Chicken Pot Pie.

TINY BUT MIGHTY For those who can’t binge an entire pie or commit to one flavor, enter the genius of Pink Pie. The small pies, which can be popped out of a tin and devoured in a few bites sans utensils, are the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Paloma

Machado-McGowan and Michael McGowan. The duo originally launched their 3-inch pies at the Yellow Green Farmers Market, before opening a popular brickand-mortar in Wynwood last year.

Don’t mistake their size for weakness.

“They’re tiny, but mighty in flavor,” says Machado-McGowan. Staples are the not-too-tart Key lime pie, made with freshly squeezed limes and crowned with perfect meringue hats, and their “OG” of pies, the smooth Oreo Nutella.

Count on eight rotating pie flavors like crowd-favorite Guava Cheese made with a mascarpone filling and a shortbread cookie crust, or the S’mores pie topped with mini burnt marshmallows. “We smoke our chocolate in hickory wood, and fold in burnt marshmallows for that straight-out-of-the-campfire taste.”

170 Northwest 26th Street, Miami; 954-744-0214; pinkpie.com.

A PIECE OF THE PIE Newcomers taking a slice of the Miami pie game include Daniel Pinks of Pedestal Creative Dessert Company, who makes everything from scratch, and you can taste the love in every bite. “I have a phenomenal palate, but I don’t like super sweet, so I’m always looking for balance,” says Pinks, whose secret is “seasoning” his pie crusts. The selftaught baker dashes cinnamon into his soft graham cracker crusts, and even raids the liquor cabinet to spike some crusts. “The alcohol dissolves so it gives a tenderness to the crust,” he explains. While Pinks offers around 20 varieties, fruit pies seem to be his superpower. Go for the

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Summer Pineapple with generous chunks of pineapple and a vanillainfused whipped topping cradled in a cinnamon-graham crust, or the Mango Peachango pie modeled after a peach cobbler. “It tastes like when summer begins, and you get that first bite of mango.” While Pinks operates by word of mouth, he hopes to have a physical location soon. pedestalcreativedessertco.com.

QUEEN OF CREAM Also, on our radar, Jennifer Jackson of The Baked Bunny, known for her pies covered in an ethereal whipped cream. Made with only three ingredients, it was the first thing her grandmother taught her to make as a child. “I remember sitting on the counter with a cold bowl in my lap, churning a rotary whisk,” recalls Jackson, whose

clients buy tubs of the dreamy cream. “I will get text messages from people saying, ‘Is it bad that I’m spooning it in my mouth?’” Jackson shines with a lemon pie in a graham cracker crust that tastes like summer at grandmother’s house; a rich and creamy peanut butter pie made with cream cheese; and a blueberry pie chock full of fat berries from her family’s farm in Central Florida.

(The farm also provides the sweet citrus for her popular orange chess pie.) Pie aficionados will appreciate Jackson’s tightly woven lattice work on her apple and blueberry pies.

“The blueberries when you bake them, they pop. I realized the closer you do the lattice, it contains the mess,” she says. “Plus, the more crust, the better.” We tend to agree.

Instagram: thebakedbunny.

WORDS BY ANGELA CARAWAY-CARLTON

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Those with a taste for the savory should try the buffalo chicken pot pie filled with a three-cheese pasta and shredded chicken in a kicked-up buffalo sauce. “We sell out the minute we put them out,” chimes in one of the sales associates. Kaplan has no plans of stopping and hopes to open in other markets. 2818 North Miami Avenue, Miami; 786-703-3623; 3435 Main Highway, Coconut Grove; 786-502-2396; firemandereks.com.

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Omakase for all

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ust out of college, Yasu Tanaka left Japan for an overseas volunteer program teaching middle school in Mozambique. He wasn’t there long when his students asked him about sushi. “They had no TV, no newspapers, no electricity, no gas, but they knew sushi,” Tanaka recalls.

He traveled five hours to the nearest fish market, and with no real knowledge of how to prepare sushi, he made his students a feast.

It was right then that Tanaka realized what he should be doing with his life. When Tanaka returned to Tokyo, he enrolled in sushi school and spent a decade training and working his way up.

After three years at the Michelin-starred Azabu in New York, Tanaka now runs The Den, a hidden back room of South Beach’s Azabu location that serves up a traditional Japanese omakase, or small dishes and single pieces of sushi served one at a time. It’s among Miami’s most expensive dining experiences and also one of the most elaborate ways to dine. But Tanaka says any home chef can pull it off following a few key steps, creating what might be your most impressive and memorable dinner party yet.

THE RICE The most important part of sushi isn’t the fish but the shari-kiri, or rice making. “If the rice is good, the sushi is good,” Tanaka says.

That starts by sourcing the right sushi rice, a short-grain Japanese grain that looks more like a risotto (versions available in Asian markets will do). Cook one part rice and one part water in a rice maker, fluffing it gently with a spoon. Chef Tanaka then imparts the rice with a sweetsalty marinade made with 4 cups of rice, 1 cup of vinegar, 3 tablespoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar –— all heated in a saucepan and later cooled.

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The omakase at The Den at Azabu Miami Beach is an altogether special experience, and with a few tips from the chef you can try it in your own kitchen.

WORDS BY ERIC BARTON / PHOTOGRAPHY BY FELIPE CUEVAS

THE FISH You’ll find sushi-grade cuts at good fish markets, and Tanaka says picking the fish is just about what you like. All the regular sushi fish is easy to prepare at home, like tuna, salmon, amberjack, snapper, bonito and scallops. Shrimp also works well; Tanaka cuts them into sugar-cube-sized pieces with a yanagi, a slender knife that looks like a mini samurai sword.

THE MARINADE Much of the fish served at good sushi restaurants spends time in a light marinade first, a technique called edo-mae. Tanaka says the marinade pulls out moisture, increasing the

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flavor and boosting the umami, or meatiness. “The marinade is just about enhancing and not changing the flavor,” Tanaka says. His marinade is simple: 1 cup of mirin is brought to a boil in a saucepan to reduce alcohol. Add 1 cup of soy sauce and cool before adding approximately 20 pieces of fish to marinade.

THE TEMPERATURE Maybe the biggest surprise you’ll have eating at an omakase counter is the temperature of the fish. Tanaka says the key is getting fish to at least room temperature. He does that by setting fish on a plate gently heated with charcoal.

A shortcut used by many sushi

chefs is the hand sandwich: put the slice of fish between your palms and press slightly, creating enough heat to bring up its temperature.

WAGYU AND UNI Many fish markets can source a box of uni, or sea urchin. Serve it simple, as Tanaka does at the restaurant, with a few pieces on a plate, strips of seaweed to wrap it, and soy sauce for dipping.

And while you’re making the meal something extravagant, add a wagyu beef course. Freeze it to help in cutting it into paper-thin slices. Let the beef come to room temperature and then give it a 10-second trip over the high flame of a gas stove or grill. Drape it over a ball of sushi rice for one of the most decadent bites of food you’ll ever have.

TAMAGO This is the bonus round, the home chef’s version of climbing Mount Fuji. During his training, Tanaka spent two years cooking tamago, a Japanese omelet, every day. He now has three notebook pages full of directions to make his.

For the home chef, Tanaka recommends starting with a relatively simple recipe: 12 eggs, 3/4 cup of sugar, 4 1/2 tablespoons of honey, 2 1/2 tablespoons of mirin, and 1 tablespoon of dashi broth (except for pureed whitefish). His secret?

A warmed tamago pan and an egg mixture that has been gently warmed before baking at a low 230 degrees for 20 minutes.

In Japan, customers use the tamago as a benchmark to gauge the skill of the chef, and Tanaka says it’ll also be a way to show you’ve mastered your omakase-at-home dinner party. “It is not easy, and you will probably fail many times,” Tanaka says. “But when you succeed, it will be worth it.”

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WHAT YOU

SEE IS WHAT YOU SIP

What happens when the artwork we see on a label is more than meets the eye?

Like most art and wine lovers, we remain open, and keep seeking and sipping.

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s what you see what you sip?

Wine — making it, wanting it, sipping it — is an art form. Like the delicious offerings inside the bottles we like best, wine labels can also be considered artistic expressions, ranging from simple and referential to evocative and compelling. Other times, they can be grape juice caricatures.

Here we explore a mural of wine labels that share a what-yousee-is-what-you-sip factor. These

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wine labels reference high quality, mindfully made wines that represent the winemaker (the artist) in some way.

LIFE IN A LABEL For his export bottles, winemaker Jean-Paul Versino’s Châteauneufdu-Pape boasts a dreamy chateau, a more colorful version of the traditional French label. Winemaker André Hueston Mack’s O.P.P. (Other People’s Pinot) label features

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a play on the 90s hip-hop group Naughty By Nature’s “OPP” (Other People’s Property), the graffiti-like letters reminiscent of street art long before Wynwood Walls validated it.

While these winemakers don't appear to be looking for any particular validation, they are making statements on their labels and in the glass. “In the late 90s, I discovered the beauty of wine.

It was completely something new for me,” said Testamatta winemaker

and artist Bibi Graetz, whose paintings appear on his wine labels.

“I was falling into glasses and discovering layers and layers. That’s what you do when you’re tasting fine wine. This is the idea about the labels. It’s not about the colors.

It’s more about the feeling of looking and searching into a glass and discovering different layers.”

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the life They started vinifying Carignan from these vines. Villalobos winemaker Rolando Villalobos shared that for 60 years, the vines grew freely among native Chilean flora — rose hip, pine trees, blackberry bushes and other animal and vegetable species.

His father, Chilean sculptor Enrique Villalobos, designed a wine label that reflects the family’s philosophy of working with “wild vineyards.”

“Our cellar is located in Valle de los Artistas, in Lolol city in Colchagua Valley,” wrote Rolando Villalobos in an email. “The art of sculpture and the art of winemaking are intrinsically linked in the creation process.”

WOKE WINE Winemaker Frédéric Brouca creates wines that are “alive,” a wellness word that has made its way from yoga mats to fermentation tanks.

From the consumer perspective, “alive” connotes a brightness on the senses Brouca captures by picking grapes 2 to 3 weeks before other winemakers, creating lower alcohol and higher acidity wines. He uses native yeasts as part of his process of creating certified organic wines.

Brouca’s vision is reflected in his simple, vine-and-sun label created by his friend, artist Hugues Véron. “Since the use of chemicals that started after WWII, there is a paranoia of correcting everything in the vineyards as well as in the cellar resulting in all wines tasting the same,” Brouca wrote in an email.

Eric Kent wine labels are not the same. The winery supports artists by featuring their art, their signatures and their website addresses on the labels.

Winemaker Martha Stoumen’s vision was “no labels” when she asked her then-boyfriend, nowhusband John Patch to design the “Post Filtration” wine label. “I wanted it to be two lovers but genderless, ageless, and something that your grandma would be alright with seeing on a wine label,” she says.

So is what you see what you sip? After you try these wines, I would love to get your feedback at loveoxtailsandriesling@gmail.com or @d_storytellah.

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 2016 Villalobos Viñedo Silvestre Carignan Reserve Limited Edition, $52.

A cloudy violet hue leads to a mystical, Miami nose: Homestead dragonfruit, tangerine, blood orange, lavender, wet rose petals, and rain-tossed oranges sprawled on gigantic, palm tree leaves. The palate sparkles with finely embroidered acidity and minerality offering red plum skin and lemon zest notes. Laginappe, 3425 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Miami; 305-576-0108.  2013 Domaine Bois De Boursan Chateauneuf-du-Pape, $42.99.

This is a soil-to-palate wine. It’s sticking your tongue into the soil and feeling the earth orbit around your palate. On the nose, there’s frying pancetta, applewood smoked bacon and summer black cherries. On the palate, more summer black cherries, pimento, nutmeg shell, lime rind and Haitian shallots. Woodswholesalewine.com (2016 vintage is also available).  2018 Testamatta Bianco, $90- $93.

When first opened, fine bubbles rise to the surface in this optically illusive still. Made with 100% ansonica, the nose offers a beguiling honey note with a hint of fresh aloe. On the palate, a gorgeous minerality-mosaic illuminates a dry-Riesling-petrol characteristic that climaxes in an oily mouthfeel. Azul Wines & Spirits, 1414 20th Street, Miami Beach; 305-538-2985.  2018 Martha Stoumen Post Flirtation, $36.

If you thought you knew California Zinfandel, this is an alluring departure. Stoumen pairs 50% zinfandel with 50% carignan in this Lambrusco-meets-Loire-Valley sensory collage. Delicious summer blackberry and black cherry notes are enlivened with lemon and tangerine notes along the way. Proper Sausages, 9722 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores; 786-334-5734.  2017 O.P.P., $21.99.

This is like a DJ spinning raspberries, cerise cherries, blood oranges and pluots on your palate, adding anise and cinnamon on the long finish. Azul Wines & Spirits, 1414 20th Street, Miami Beach; 305-538-2985.  2017 Faugères Brouca Champs Pentus, $24.

On the nose, fresh, summer blackberries and blueberries mix with wet, Miami mango skin. As it opens, your palate is steeped in a southern French painting of sweet black cherry sauce, black truffles and dried lavender. Proper Sausages, 9722 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores; 786-334-5734.  2018 Eric Kent wine rosé, $21-$24.

The opulent watermelon color is like a fluid monochromatic painting. It introduces a wet marijuana leaf funk that fades into cucumber and apricot pit on the nose. On the palate, strawberries, apricots, cerise cherries and white nectarines groove through the beautiful minerality. erickentwines.com.

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SOUTH OF FIFTH

Yury Bettoni

This walkable oasis at the bottom of Miami Beach exists in its current form due to a little manmade help. In 1905, when Government Cut was dredged — which cut loose Fisher Island from the rest of Miami Beach — SoFi became land’s end. In time, the enclave emerged as one of the area’s most affluent, as the leafy triangle with water on three sides and the 17-acre park lured professionals seeking a quiet lifestyle away from mass tourism. This is not to say that SoFi is sleepy: It contains several blocks of bustling, chic restaurants. And South Pointe Park has been graced with renovation after renovation, and is blessed with a rock-lined promenade, bike trails, rows of light columns and sleek fountains to keep residents active and dreamily content.

Yury Bettoni is such a fixture in Miami Beach that he even turned up on Ballers — as himself. The former professional tennis player, real estate investor and business partner of the exclusive kitchen brand Italkraft was walking around — where else?

South of Fifth when he ran into his friend Joseph Krutel, a huge tennis fan and a producer of the HBO show. The episode’s premise?

“The Rock’s character was scouting tennis players,” Bettoni recalls, “so I ended up playing tennis in front of 300 extras.” Beyond the occasional TV cameo, he feels connected to his neighborhood in so many ways.

With his family, Bettoni has invested in SoFi properties for years, the prestigious GLASS condo building is outfitted with Italkraft kitchens, and just about every restaurant holds memories of balmy evenings shared with family and friends.

The low-key area lured professionals seeking a quiet lifestyle away from mass tourism.

Family values

Joe’s Stone Crab

The establishment

“Joe’s Stone Crab is an institution with a great history behind it. What I love is that they don’t kill the crabs — they cultivate them and after they

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cut one of the claws, the crab regenerates it. I’m also a big fan of the lobster roll — like a little piece of Boston.” 11 Washington Avenue; 305-602-9998; joesstonecrab.com

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“Georgios Vogiatzis, the owner of Santorini

by Georgios, is a good friend of mine and he makes me feel like I’m part of the family. What he’s done is amazing. There was another restaurant in that space, and he came in and took over the pool, the restaurant and beach club, and within a year he turned it around.

He’s a true entrepreneur who is hands-on, from the cooking to the relationships with the diners to managing the staff. Everyone is happy and he loves to take care of every client. It’s a 360-degree experience — there are belly dancers to go with your spanakopita.”

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By the sea

“Smith & Wollensky is set right along a beautiful path in South Pointe Park. The steak is aged for six months, and it’s really second to none. You can eat outside next to the water and it gives you a little bit of a European feel. It’s a great place for a sunset cocktail.”

1 Washington Avenue; 305-673-2800; smithandwollensky.com.

Coastal convergence

“A few months ago at Forte dei Marmi I had the porcetta — slowcooked pork. The meat was so tender. And we had pasta with sea urchin. Even though Forte dei Marmi is a famous resort town in Tuscany, they cooked us an amazing Sardinian dinner. Two Michelin Star winner Antonio Mellino is the chef.”

150 Ocean Drive; 786-276-3095; fdmmiami.com.

Direct from Napoli

“There are two famous pizza places in Naples, and Sorbillo is one. It’s historic. They opened in New York and Miami, and there’s no difference in quality or flavor between the pizza here or at the original in Naples. It is very difficult to reproduce exactly the same taste but they manage to do it. It’s the way they manipulate the dough and the sauces. Not only is the pasta perfectly al dente, but the San Marzano tomatoes are authentic and fresh.” 100 Collins Avenue, 305-381-0588; sorbillonyc.com.

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For carnivores only

“Fogo de Chão is a great example of a Brazilian churrascaria. My favorite is the picanha, a traditional churrascaria sirloin. The ribeye and filet mignon are also excellent.

I like the skirt steak a little burnt on the edges, with salt. They cut it right in front of you at the table.”

836 1st Street; 305-672-0011; fogodechao.com.

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“Big Pink is one of the only true touristic places in South of Fifth.

It’s known for its breakfasts and big portions. The color is great branding — Myles [Alan Chefetz], the owner, is brilliant at marketing — and it has a prime location on Collins, one block from the beach.

A lot of the Miami Heat players come because Myles has a great relationship with the team.” 157 Collins Avenue; 305-531-0888; mylesrestaurantgroup.com/big-pink.

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Somewhere that’s green

“Five years ago, South Pointe Park had a massive renovation, and now it’s a work of art. I’m a big fan of different levels, and the grading of the park with the changing vistas makes it magical. Between the cruise ships and the sunsets, the view is second to none. There are lots of people working out, bringing their dogs, being a community, so it’s a great place to meet people.”

1 Washington Avenue.

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South Pointe Park

“We own multiple units in the Mercury, a historic art deco hotel built in the Twenties. It’s a condohotel that you can rent daily, monthly or weekly. The two towers have 44 units with a swimming pool in the middle. The lounge was renovated about 18 months ago.

The Mercury means a lot to me because it was our first family purchase — we were drawn to the beautiful corner location.”

100 Collins Avenue; 305-794-3794; the-mercury-hotel.com.

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#FOLLOWINDULGETO New year, new travel. If your 2020 resolutions include more jet-setting, we’ve picked some trending destinations that offer a taste of winter, wine and warmth.

As always, if you go, tag #FollowIndulgeTo. WORDS BY ANGELA CARAWAY-CARLTON

MARDI GRAS MADNESS. No one does Carnival like New Orleans, and the vibrant parades of Mardi Gras last until Fat Tuesday on Feb. 25. Grasp for beads thrown from colossal floats that roll down St. Charles Avenue, eat chargrilled oysters and king cake; and for something totally unique, stay at the Hotel Peter & Paul, a former church, convent and rectory that’s been rehabbed into a buzzy 71-room hotel near Frenchmen Street. neworleans.com; hotelpeterandpaul.com.

SOUTH AMERICAN SIPPING. Jet off to Mendoza, Argentina, where the city celebrates its grape harvest with the biggest festival of the year, La Vendimia Mendoza Wine Festival.

The epic, nine-day event boasts endless bottles of Malbec, colorful folkloric performances and parades.

Bed down at The Vines of Mendoza with the majestic Andes Mountains as the backdrop for fiery Argentine fare by Francis Mallmann and their popular wine camp where participants get a hands-on experience of both harvesting and winemaking. March 1-9, 2020; vinesresortandspa.com.

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WINTER WHITE-OUT. After a year of devastating storms in the Bahamas, a new boutique resort, Caerula Mar, is open and putting the sleepy island of South Andros on the map. As the first new hotel in nearly two decades, the intimate property is owned and designed by Bryan & Sarah Baeumler of HGTV Canada fame, and is decked out with private villas and some of the most luxe amenities in the stunning region. caerulamar.com

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LET IT GO. The only place that’s “frozen” in Miami right now is the creative ice cream shop Frohzen by executive pastry chef Salvatore Martone (another longtime protégé of the late Joël Robuchon). Located in the Design District, you’ll find scoops of Miami-inspired flavors such as guava Maria and mango/passion fruit, along with ice cream cupcakes, macaron ice cream sandwiches, and more.

151 Northeast 41st Street, Suite 137; 305-402-9060; frohzen-miami.com.

SOCIAL BUTTERFLY. New York, London, Dubai, and now Miami.

The Cipriani family’s latest outpost of Socialista Miami in Downtown is an intimate lounge for romance this month. Other-worldly Chinese design accents mingle with Old World glamour, while cuisine and cocktails reflect a Cuban influence. 465 Brickell Avenue, Miami; 786-329-4094; socialistalounge.com/ location-miami.

TREAT YOURSELF. Put the V in Valentine’s Day with an indulgent treatment at new Valmont for The Spa at the Setai, Miami Beach. The newly reimagined spa has partnered with the luxury Swiss skincare brand for a full menu of new treatments, including a 100-minute full-body service that combines a complete anti-aging treatment. 2001 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach; 305-520-6000; thesetaihotels.com.

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COZY IN THE COTSWOLDS. Those desiring a dreamy winter respite should consider the quintessential English countryside of the Cotswolds. With rolling hills and picture-perfect villages dotted with homes, castles and churches constructed of honey-hued limestone, think magical days spent sipping hot toddies by a roaring fire, frosty walks through snow-covered trails, and popping in antique stores and tea rooms to warm up. cotswolds.com; visitbritain.com

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LET’S ROCK!

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood finally unveiled the world's first guitar-shaped hotel — and it’s got South Florida rocking out every night.

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or what feels like an eternity, we Miami-Dade and Broward County residents have watched with anticipation as the all-glass Guitar Hotel, poised to be an icon of South Florida, slowly became a reality on the side of the Florida’s Turnpike. If you were a diehard fan of the old Seminole Hard Rock Resort & Casino, like me, get excited! After a $1.5-billion expansion and renovation, the decades-old resort and hangout we all knew and loved has come back bigger and better than ever.

SLEEP LIKE A CELEBRITY Instead of replacing the resort’s existing hotel, the Guitar Hotel just made the party even bigger.

Adding a dazzling 638 new rooms and suites to the already 465 in the original Hard Rock Hotel and 168 in the Oasis Tower (which also

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unveiled in fall 2019), this 450-foottall glass guitar sits right on top of the main building, meaning I could literally roll out of bed and into the casino, bars, restaurants and pools the surrounding resort offers below.

During my four days there, I lived like a celebrity. Every night, I drifted off to sleep in a king bed draped in Hard Rock’s custom “Sleep Like a Rock” Egyptian cotton bedding, and every morning, I put on my plush robe and indulged in the upscale bath products and in-room spa shower.

When I really wanted to feel like a rock star, I had Hard Rock’s signature “Sound of Your Stay” program — which lets guests borrow actual Fender guitars and amplifiers and jam out to their Nixon headphones or watch video guides to learn how to play. For a real show, step out of your room and look up. Every night, at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., the glass

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guitar comes alive with an electrifying light and music show, where 20,000foot light beams, mash-ups of greatest hits and colorful LED lights mimic guitar strings and make the Guitar Hotel look like it’s actually being played.

DEAL ME IN It’s almost impossible to go to a Hard Rock property and not gamble, and the casino at this resort is hard to beat. As I wandered through the 140,000-square-foot casino, I passed 200+ gaming tables (from roulette to mini-baccarat), 3,000+ slot machines (from wheel-spin games to those with a Sex and the City theme), video poker and roulette and a new High Limit Slots room for high rollers only. There’s a new poker room with 45 poker tables, including those for Texas Hold’em tournaments and high stakes poker.

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL When you’re not in your room or trying to win a jackpot, the options to entertain yourself are endless.

Book a massage at Rock Spa and spend the morning sipping Champagne in its sunlit atrium or dipping in and out of cold pools, Jacuzzis, steam rooms and saunas.

Get a tan by the beach-style pool area, which has beach chairs in real Florida sand, or relax by the tropical, lagoon-style pool with waterfalls and swaying palms. For something really special, book the appropriately named Bora Bora experience. Here, over-the-water bungalow cabanas, private bathrooms and showers, Discover your rhythm when you stay in the Guitar Hotel — an engineering masterpiece completely made of glass featuring guitar faces, LED-lit strings and a nightly music and light show.

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Seeing a lot of people achieve really amazing things made us think about what we wanted to do. Country Day taught us how to learn. That’s very important because we hold ourselves to incredibly high standards and we push ourselves to meet those standards. This sense of self confidence, sense of community, and sense of motivating yourself that’s exactly what Country Day gave us.

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Country Day alumni Brian Nasajon ’04 and Ben Potts ’02 of Wynwood’s Beaker & Gray and The Sylvester have won numerous awards and competitions at the South Beach Food and Wine Festival, including the award for the Best Restaurant Bar. Miami Country Day School’s dedication to every student empowered Ben and Brian to pursue their passions.

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the life Large rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and yellow and teal accents reflect the sprawling Bora Bora pool lagoon below; sleek, convertible bathrooms let guests get glam like a celebrity before a night out; a bone-in beef rib with guava jam from the new Abiaka.

personal plunge pools and butler service are the cherry on top of a sunny day in paradise.

If you are like me and like to be a little active, sneak in a workout at the 24-hour Body Rock fitness center.

See who’s playing at The Comedy Club, or dance the day or night away with Tiësto and The Chainsmokers at DAER South Florida — a day-to-night club modeled after the Las Vegas party scene. If that’s not your style, browse the boutiques and signature Rock Shop® along the marble shopping promenade, or take your kids paddleboarding or canoeing on the resort’s manmade lake, near the pool lagoon. It spans the length of three football fields.

I’LL HAVE ANOTHER At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, guests can choose from 19 restaurants and 20 bars and lounges.

For a real treat, start your day with a latte from Constant Grind or challah French toast with whipped cream at Rise Kitchen & Deli, a new 24-hour American diner at the base of the Guitar Hotel. Grab a quick lunch at the food court or get the Legendary® steak burger with cheddar cheese and smoked bacon at everyone’s favorite classic, the Hard Rock Cafe.

Order Hawaiian pizza flatbreads and pitchers of El Diablos from Pool Bar & Grill right to your cabana. If you

Enjoy a raw bar tower at Council Oak Steak & Seafood before retiring for literary-inspired cocktails at Oculus Bar; try the slot machines at the casino, and spend your winnings in the boutiques along the new 26,000-square-foot retail promenade.

can’t decide, hit the all-day buffet at Fresh Harvest. I promise it has something for everyone.

At this resort, dinner is when the real show begins. Kuro promises new-style Japanese plates and sushi, while Cipresso offers handmade pizzas and pastas. Council Oak Steaks & Seafood serves up tableside raw bar towers and USDA Prime steaks cut and dried in the in-house butcher shop and Himalayan salt dry-aging room. Unveiled with the Guitar Hotel, my personal favorite is Abiaka, an American woodfire grill concept that serves live-fire seafood and meats family-style. Think: 3 lb. lobster with a housemade chimichurri and lime-mustard butter, bone-in beef rib with guava jam and braise-jus or ratatouille with Manchego cheese and a fried egg.

Settle in a Oculus Bar for afterdinner handcrafted cocktails, like “The Austen” (with earl grey teainfused gin), made in the spirit of classic literary authors. Just nearby, the expanded and intimate L Bar has a menu of craft beers, curated wines, aperitifs and signature vermouths.

If you don’t want to go far from the restaurant, just move over to the bar.

Both Kuro and Council Oak have their own cocktail lounges.

THE MUSIC LIVES ON Staying true to the Hard Rock brand, the property is truly an ode to music’s greats. Go on a self-guided “Rock Memorabilia” resort tour and you’ll find iconic outfits worn and props used by everyone from Michael Jackson, Prince and Steven Tyler to Lenny Kravitz, Katy Perry, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga. To catch the stars in action, see who’s playing at the new-and-improved Hard Rock Live.

Attached to the casino, this 7,000seat concert venue has already welcomed A-listers like Maroon 5, Billy Joel, Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett and Alicia Keys since it reopened in October 2019. During my visit, I even got to see Sting — a major music moment in a property that is all about that rock star life.

WORDS BY JENNIFER AGRESS

1 Seminole Way, Hollywood; 1-800-937-0010; seminolehardrockhollywood.com.

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260 Crandon Boulevard, Suite 16, The Square Shopping Center, Key Biscayne; 305-361-2675; kazumirestaurant.com.

From Flagler Street where it all began, to Brickell City Centre: Visit the new boutique from Kirk Jewelers, designed to offer a true luxury buying experience for Swiss timepieces and major jewelry brands. Family owned and operated, and genuinely committed to provide first class service. Since 1947. Kirk Jewelers, Brickell City Centre, 701 South Miami Avenue, Level 3, Miami; kirkJewelers.com

THE PICKLED BEET

At The Pickled Beet personal chef service, we cook 100% customized meals based on the philosophy that food is medicine that can help you heal or keep you in good health. We’ll help you navigate the dietary constraints of an illness, deal with food allergies, satisfy picky eaters, and still get a delicious meal on the table in 30 minutes or less. We’re not a cookiecutter, mass production operation. Every meal is customcrafted by professional chefs using the highest quality organic ingredients. We don’t require a contract, so check us out. ThePickledBeet.com; 305-388-3536; ChefLiz@ThePickledBeet.com.

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CALL ME BY

My Greek Name

Long, languorous days on one of the Cyclades’ most famous islands just might turn a Miamian into a Myconian.

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don’t need a reason to extend my stay once I’m in Mykonos. Art directing a photo shoot brought me to Greece 10 days ago — 10 days of plunge pools and creamy tzatziki in Santorini was hardly arduous — but now it’s “me time” and now it’s my place: Mykonos.

When I started the trip, telling locals my name (which, to Greeks, is weirdly short) got old really fast. So I decided to give myself a Greek name: Since “Drew” doesn’t translate, I christened myself Andreas.

SENSE & SENSIBILITY So it is Andreas who sits down for breakfast with Litsa and Dimitris Kontizas, the owners of Mykonos No5 Suites & Villas. They are beautiful — perfect bone structure, casually immaculate grooming. They look like quintessential jet-setters, but they are family people, year-round Myconians with a true, intimate manner aided by their soft voices — his gentle and faintly emotional; hers honeyed and lilting, almost musical.

I don’t meet them until the last day of my stay, after I’d been secreted away in a discreet, four-suite section of the hotel perched high above the main building. There I luxuriated in Cycladic style, in a room that was literally all of a piece, with the furnishings and interior architecture smoothly and fully integrated. The sofas, shelving, shower wall, elevated bed to capture the sea view

— it all emerged from the smooth white floors and walls as if from a single plaster mold.

Dimitris and his late father Marinus had been in construction since 1990, and in 2004, they began building villas on this rocky hillside with its spectacular views of the Aegean and the famed windmills of Mykonos town. Charmingly dramatic, Litsa says that choosing the hotel

The Little Venice section of Mykonos town is lined with seafront bars and tavernas; lay back and enjoy the views of Elia Beach at the Myconian Villa Collection.

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Clockwise from top left: Watching the sunset from the beach at Mykonos town is a ritual; the Myconian Villa Collection’s thalassotherapy circuit; the ubiquitous blue doors of Mykonos; poolside daybeds at Mykonos No5 Suites & Villas; the luxurious Corner Suite at Mykonos No5.

name “took centuries.” Eventually, Mykonos No5, devoted to the five senses — for example, in my suite I am presented with a telescope for sight — finally debuted four years ago.

Virtually no architect on Mykonos would dare deviate from the island’s age-old vernacular.

“We have the Cycladic architecture and we respect that,” Litsa explains. “You can see the whitewashed walls everywhere, and the stone.

But we wanted a bohemian-chic style. I don’t like colors, so we have only pale wood, white, black and gray.” If one design choice symbolizes this aesthetic, it is the row of daybeds that line the pool. Raised so they seem to hover above the infinity edge, the beds are adorned with strips of black fabric that hang loosely from their

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minimalist canopies. The look is not only rusticchic, but almost tribal. After my breakfast with Litsa and Dimitris, I retire to the daybed to watch the black strips catch the wind and slice up the view. I see that other guests tied them back to tame them. Drew might tie them back; Andreas, however, does not.

IN THE PINK Days later, my friend Anastasios Naoum and I fall into an unlikely conversation. Which do I prefer, he asks, Italy or Greece? I say unlikely because Anastasios is the director of the Myconian Collection, surely the island’s most elite hotel grouping. So what am I to say? I’m staying in the crown jewel of the brand, the Villa Collection.

the life Clockwise from top left: Multiple pools at the Myconian Korali resort, a member of the Myconian Collection; the restaurant’s bar at Mykonos No5 Suites & Villas; the iconic windmills of Mykonos town.

He put me in an expansive suite. Two pairs of double doors lead to the terrace. A Jacuzzi is on that terrace. Elia Beach, inarguably one of Mykonos’ best strands and dotted with thatched umbrellas, rests below. The sea is vast and calm and turquoise.

Before this, I was in the stylish Korali, one of the Collection’s hotels on the edge of Chora (aka Mykonos Town), where I floated in my own plunge pool and had a Relais & Chateauxdesignated meal of lobster in cauliflower sauce, washed down with a crisp, peachy Assyrtiko white. Even the Sitia 0.2 Platinum extra virgin olive oil that I was introduced to was delectable.

Both hotels, it must be noted, offer a singularly genius amenity: a sequence of five skinnourishing pools that together constitute the thalassotherapy experience (a spa staffer would gently guide me to the next pool).

Back to the question: Italy or Greece. “You’re making me choose between my children!” I tell Anastasios as we enjoy executive chef Thodoris

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Kyriakidis’ sublime lamb fricassee and tuna tartare with sweet pepper sorbet. We are at a prime table a few feet from the infinity pool.

I swam laps in it today, and then I retreated to a pink velvet daybed in my cabana-like pod that was separated from the others by mature olive trees: natural, ancient privacy.

I tell him that I’ve never experienced such warmth of hospitality anywhere, which is true.

It is certainly true in Chora, in every bakery and restaurant, and of course it’s true at Myconian Villas, where, at breakfast, the staffers Dimostenis and Apostolis wanted to tell me about every type of honey and yogurt. When I meet Myconians with such impressive monikers, I’m glad I asked everyone to call me by my Greek name. “I’ll tell you something else,” I say, thinking about the hours of perfection on my pink daybed tucked between the olive trees.

“I needed easy, and Greece is easy.” Easy for Drew, and easy for Andreas.

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INDULGE F E B RUA RY / M A RC H 2 0 2 0

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf’s legacy may not include being the consummate expert on food, but she certainly had a point about the influence of what one eats on their overall happiness.

Consider how many times an ice cream sundae, a fresh bowl of Tagliatelle with truffles, or even a glass of Albariño have left you giddy (and probably hazy from a carb crash, but I digress).

With so many trends and new combinations of flavors bursting out of South Florida’s GREG LOTUS/TRUNK ARCHIVE

dining scene, one could even argue that food is the new fashion and every season we can come to expect a flood of new restaurants and dishes to satiate our cravings. In this issue, INDULGE presents ‘front row’ access to the ultimate tastemakers: chefs, dishes and happenings that represent Miami today. We think that’s something to smile about.

— JSP

Flavor Found Award-winning chef, television host, restaurateur and cookbook author Marcus Samuelsson brings his love of chasing flavors to Red Rooster Overtown.

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decade after debuting the game-changing Red Rooster in New York City’s Harlem, chef Marcus Samuelsson is poised to open his restaurant’s second US location in a Miami neighborhood that was once known as the Harlem of the South.

Overtown, the area just west of downtown Miami, had its heyday in the 1930s through 1950s when jazz and R&B greats like Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and Sammy Davis, Jr. headlined music halls and nightclubs across its bustling Little Broadway district.

When Samuelsson, the James Beard Award-winning chef, opens Red Rooster Overtown this year inside the former Clyde Killen’s Pool Hall space, he hopes to create a new landmark destination alongside longtime community cornerstones like Jackson Soul Food where locals gather for fried catfish and grits, the recently revitalized historic Lyric Theater (now home to the Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida) and the murals of the late folk artist Purvis Young.

“Our goal is to become that place that people go to when they’re in Overtown,” says Samuelsson. “We have to earn the right — and the trust — to be a part of the larger Miami conversation. It takes a lot of humility and a lot of training and a lot of people to do that.”

A vision five years in the making, Samuelsson and business partner Derek Fleming partnered with Grove Bay Hospitality, the restaurant group that launched chef Jeremy Ford’s Stubborn Seed in South Beach and chef Giorgio Rapicavoli’s Glass & Vine in Coconut Grove, as well as Overtown developer Michael Simkins. They’re also working hand-in-hand with the Southeast Overtown/ Park West Community Redevelopment Agency with the aim of creating jobs and economic stimulus. “We are humbly stepping into a rich culture that hopefully we can add a lot of positivity to,” says Samuelsson.

Traveling frequently to Miami for South Beach Wine & Food Festival, as well as to explore the food and culture of Little Haiti for his PBS documentary series No Passport Required, (which debuted its second season in January), Samuelsson has immersed himself in Miami’s neighborhoods and restaurant scene over the years and gotten to know its chefs.

Keen on Miami’s mix of cultures, Samuelsson set his sights on the city as an ideal location for his Red Rooster brand.

The historical similarities between Harlem and Miami’s Overtown neighborhood influenced Samuelsson’s decision to take his restaurant — and recipes — south.

When considering where to open a second US outpost of his Harlem institution, Samuelsson, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, says, “I wanted to do it in a place that has a strong connection to African American and African Caribbean culture. When I started to read up on the history of Overtown, looking at the similarities with entertainment — like Sam Cooke performed at the Harlem Square and Muhammad Ali stayed there — and its similarities to Harlem, I was like wow, this is not just history, it’s meaningful to the city.”

Red Rooster Harlem is known for its masterful preparations of traditional soul food with a playful twist. Popular items include the hot honey fried yardbird, chicken with snickerdoodle waffles, and Poppa Eddie’s shrimp and grits with gumbo stew, chorizo and okra, as well as classics from Samuelsson’s Swedish heritage like Helga’s veal meatballs with mustard gravy and blackberry jam.

In Overtown, guests can expect these favorites, as well as a fresh, seasonal menu inspired not only by Miami’s melting pot of Caribbean and Latin cultures, but also by the region’s abundance of local seafood, citrus farms and warm, sunny weather. Under the tutelage of executive chef Tristen Epps, who is from Trinidad, he and Samuelsson look forward to developing an inspired take on creole and a strong ceviche and crudo program with seafood towers. They also plan to grill outside and diners will enjoy alfresco meals year round on the expansive patio and balcony.

Like Red Rooster Harlem, the Overtown location will celebrate art with works on display by established, emerging and local artists, including the paintings of Derrick Adams and the interventionist sculptures of Hank Willis Thomas.

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GLOBALLY INSPIRED SOUL FOOD

Diners dive in to Red Rooster’s Yep! Chicken & Waffle dish, featuring fried chicken, hot maple-chili sauce and apple cider waffles.

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Miami’s food scene will soon include some of Red Rooster’s most popular dishes including Samuelsson’s signature Hot, Honey Yardbird, Wild, Wild Wings (made with ginger and black pepper sauce) and the menu’s Triple Double Burger.

And just like the historic neighborhoods that Red Rooster calls home, music is a part of the restaurants’ DNA. On any given night in Overtown, guests can expect live performances by musicians and DJs in styles ranging from Afrobeats to R&B, soul and jazz. “It’s the same spirit as Red Rooster New York,” says Samuelsson, “but this is a local restaurant.” And that will be reflected through its cuisine and its music and arts programming.

“Overtown has such an incredible history and I can’t wait for people to come back to our roots and rediscover it,” says Samuelsson. “If we can be a part of bringing people back, that’s wonderful. It’s also about the people who didn’t go anywhere, the people who have stayed and worked really hard.”

In appreciation of his culinary contributions, when South Beach Wine & Food Festival returns February 19-23, Samuelsson will be honored with a Tribute Dinner, one of the marquee events of the weekend. Chefs bestowed with this recognition in recent years include José Andrés, Nancy Silverton and Jonathan Waxman. “That I’m being honored the year that we’re opening the restaurant, it’s just funny how these two worlds come together,” says Samuelsson. “It’s a huge honor and also a reflection of the support I’ve had from all the cooks, dishwashers and servers who are part of the team and the guests — without the guests it doesn’t work. I’m deeply grateful for that.”

Ultimately, Samuelsson says, “Red Rooster is about people. It’s inspired by cultures of immigration, but it’s for everyone. It’s a place where the mayor is sitting next to a musician who’s sitting next to a painter sitting next to a writer — we want to create this layered experience. It’s about the everyday person who’s working hard.”

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Last year, Samuelsson launched “Our Harlem," a seven-part Audible Original series based on his best-selling book of the same name.

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25 SOME ARE NEW, SOME NOT QUITE SO, BUT EACH REPRESENTS A REASON WHY SOUTH FLORIDA HAS BECOME A FOOD HUB TO BE RECKONED WITH. HERE ARE THE DISHES THAT WE LOVE AND YOU’LL WANT TO TRY NOW.

Words by Angela Caraway-Carlton, Sara Liss, Erin Michelle Newberg, Jenny Starr Perez and Terry Zarikian

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POTATO SKINS

Glance around this unassuming restaurant tucked away in a strip mall, and you may notice that you’re dining alongside some of Miami’s top chefs.

You’re all here for the skills of Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer, who are turning out some of the city’s most interesting sharing plates, like the Crispy Potato Skins loaded with caviar and Stracciatella cheese for a rich and salty combination. Don’t get too attached to menu items as they’re constantly changing. —ACC 5205 Northeast Second Avenue, Miami; 305-967-8866; boiaderestaurant.com.

 INTERNATIONAL SMOKE,

FALAFELS AND YELLOW TAMARIND COCKTAIL

Everything at this global restaurant conceived by celeb chef Michael Mina and Ayesha Curry is top notch, from the cornbread with curry butter to the smoked Korean short rib, but their falafels deserve a special shout-out.

Inspired by Mina’s Eygyptian mother’s recipe, these lightly fried orbs look to green fava beans instead of traditional chickpea for their deep flavor. Pair with one of their new cocktails like the “Yellow Tamarind” made with tequila and kumquat juice. —SL

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19565 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 946, Aventura; 786-254-0422; internationalsmoke.com.

2  RIVERTAIL, CRAB DONUTS

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Inspired by fish houses and oyster bars from coast to coast, chef José Mendin delivers another winner with Rivertail, his latest eatery in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Mendin’s standout offering comes via his tasty “crab donuts”. Made with Brioche, spicy honey and sea salt, the dish perfectly delivers bite after bite of tastiness and spotlights the chef’s talent for experimenting with ingredients to deliciously tempting results. —JSP 305 South Andrews Avenue, Suite 123, Fort Lauderdale; 954-306-2665; rivertailftl.com.

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 CASA D’ANGELO,

LOBSTER GNOCCHI

Chef Angelo Elia has given Aventura another reason to say grazie! His impeccably designed Casa D’Angelo restaurant also boasts a full menu that transports you straight to the +39. Not to miss is the decadent lobster gnocchi, which arrives loaded with massive lobster chunks in a Reggiano crème sauce, panko breadcrumbs and covered with black truffles. —EMN 2906 Northeast 207th Street, Aventura; 305-699-5500; casa-d-angelo.com.

4  HUTONG, WAGYU BEEF

MILLEFEUILLE

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Outstanding Northern Chinese cuisine offerings at this celebrated London transplant include the King Po Prawns that sit in a sauce of sweet garlic, dry chili and lots of cashews. But the absolute triumph is the Wagyu Beef Millefeuille — tender bites of Wagyu in a fragrant black pepper jus, embraced together with layers of light and buttery dough that dissolves in your mouth. —TZ and EMN 600 Brickell Avenue, Miami; 786-388-0805; hutong-miami.com.

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MEZZE PLATTER

The Middle-Eastern “tapas” trend continues to dominate our food scene and nowhere is it more exquisitely done than at this romantic newcomer located at the LifeHouse hotel in Collins Park.

One could easily make a meal of the za’atar-spiced manoushe bread and the array of salads that include beet hummus, grilled haloumi, falafel, laneh, marinated feta and roasted eggplant. —SL 2216 Park Avenue, Miami Beach; 786-460-1685; lifehousehotels.com.

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 BATCH, THE COOKIE COMPANY, COOKIES N’ CREAM/KEY LIME COOKIE

 KAIDO, UNI FONDUE Chef Brad Kilgore's Tokyo-style drinking den in the Design District features innovative cocktails, thoughtfully prepared Asian dishes, and sushi perfect for sharing. The signature dish that diners can never get enough of (perhaps because one of its main ingredients is said to be an aphrodisiac) is the Uni Fondue, a warm velvety blend of uni and aged parmesan. —JSP 151 Northeast Forty-first Street, Suite 217, Miami; 786-409-5591; kaidomiami.com.

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Pastry chef Max Santiago of Salty Donut fame has moved his attention to artisanal cookies in Fort Lauderdale, expertly stuffing them and topping them like his former donuts.

OMG-worthy cookie creations are the Cookies n’ Cream, jam-packed with a homemade Oreo filling that he wraps and bakes in a dark chocolate dough, then dips in a chocolate ganache. The Key Lime cookie filled with eggless custard and a beautifully torched vanilla meringue is also a must. —ACC 917 Northeast Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale; 954-533-8200; batchcookieco.com.

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TRUFFLES + BLACK BEANS & STRACCIATELLA

Carlos Garcia’s modernized Venezuelan cuisine is characterized by intense flavors rooted in classic cooking techniques and a marriage of contrasting ingredients, as we find in the acclaimed chef’s stewed Venezuelan-style black beans with creamy artisanal Stracciatella cheese and fresh black truffles — an indulgent combination that for Garcia represents a global melting pot of cultures. —TZ 1331 Brickell Bay Drive, Miami; 305-846-9363; obramiami.com/en.

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 COYO TACO,

LAMB BARBACOA TACOS

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 LE JARDINIER, WATERMELON

AND TOMATO SALAD

This concept helmed by Joël Robuchon protégé and chef Alain Verzeroli is lovely in every way, but of course it’s the food that’s the showstopper here. It seems like the menu keeps changing but some of the best dishes we’ve had so far were the eggplant and seared tuna dish with a hint of avocado puree, and the watermelon and tomato salad which tasted like summer on a plate. —SL

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In a city that sees as many restaurant doors close as it does open, chef Scott Linquist’s celebrated taqueria is indisputably one of Miami’s major success stories. Each of Coyo Taco’s South Florida locations — from Wynwood to Palm Beach — serve fresh options of Mexican street food (spicy or not). Though each menu item is generally as satisfying as the next, we think the flavors of the classic Lamb Barbacoa Tacos cause a craving like no other. —JSP coyo-taco.com.

151 Northeast Forty-first Street, #135, Miami; 305-402-9060; lejardinier-miami.com.

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SLAB JERK BACON

Nestled in a former fruit factory (now with a full bar) in Allapattah, Hometown Barbecue’s most surprisingly enticing dish is chef Alex Smith’s Slab Jerk Bacon: a thick cut of meat smoked on premises for 12 hours, then seasoned and coated with a sweet pineapple jerk sauce that is as tangy as it is spicy. —EMN 1200 Northwest Twenty-second Street, #100, Miami; 305-396-4551; hometownbbqmiami.com.

 LE CHICK,

ROYALE WITH CHEESE

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A common question we often get asked is where to get a great burger in Miami. Le Chick in Wynwood is currently at the top of our list with the appropriately named Royale with Cheese: a double stacked blend of skirt steak, dry aged beef and brisket on a Brioche bun.

Though the accompanying fries are addictive, the side you’ll really lust after is Le Chick’s crazy-good spicy sauce. —EMN 310 Northwest Twenty-fourth Street, Miami; 786-216-7086; lechickrotisserie.com.

 NOVIKOV, PEKING DUCK

AND FOIE GRAS SIU MAI

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Last October, following the success of its popular Champagne-and-dumpling laden Sunday Brunch, the chic downtown Miami destination unveiled its new siu mai dumplings and ‘Sunsets on the Terrace.’ Topped with crispy duck skin and plum sauce, the Peking duck and Foie Gras siu mai (a type of traditional Chinese dumpling usually served as a dim sum snack) may be small but each bite packs a mighty punch of flavor. —JSP 300 South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami; 305-489-1000; novikovmiami.com.

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FIOCCHI RAPERA

Celebrating its 26th anniversary, this Italian institution in Miami Beach is as comforting as an old friend and the food only gets better with age.

The vegetarian pastas are just as popular as the meat dishes, but the Fiocchi Rapera — delicate purses of pasta filled with cheese and pear and served in a creamy truffle sauce — is the dish that launched more than 11,000 orders last year. —ACC 414 Seventy-first Street, Miami Beach; 305-867-0106; cafeprimapasta.com.

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 PAPI STEAK, LATKES We knew this latest concept from David Grutman and friend/steak whisperer David Einhorn was all about the beef and indeed the Flintstone’s-sized slab of the signature Papi Steak hit all the right pleasure notes. But it was the latkes that we thought about the next day. Chef William Crandall fused Einhorn’s family recipes for his modern spin, pairing them with crème fraîche and house made apple sauce for a platter of fried goodness that any Jewish grandma would be proud to serve. —SL 736 First Street, Miami Beach; 305-800-7274; papisteak.com.

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Be prepared to encounter a very large menu, and to admit that it’s quite good — no, not just for a cinema, but in general. Try the lightly battered, deliciously crisp and juicy Chicken Tenders, a simple but flavorful dish that we just couldn’t have enough of.

Enjoy it with a well-crafted cocktail, an artisanal beer or a bottle of wine and you are all set for the film to roll. —TZ 300 Southeast Third Street, Suite 100, Miami; 305-536-5000; silverspot.net/food-and-drinks.

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What started as an open air, tropical fruit and vegetable market with a simple take-out menu is now one of ten locations in the Miami area. Their simple and direct concept has been based on offering a variety of freshly made-to-order juices, the best known chopped fruit salad in the Latin community, delicious Cuban fare and the meatiest chicharrones this side of Havana. —TZ elpalaciodelosjugos.com.

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This to-die-for-cake is one of the most popular dishes at Mastro’s Ocean Club in Fort Lauderdale, where 80-percent of tables order it every night (it even has its own Facebook page). Made with no-one-wants-to-know how much butter, the soft on the inside yellow cake with a caramelized top arrives at the table warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and made-in-house whip cream on the side. —ACC 3000 Northeast Thirty-second Avenue, Fort Lauderdale; 954-561-4800; mastrosrestaurants.com.

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This restaurant perched atop the new-ish Mr. C Miami-Coconut Grove Hotel is the go-to place for a dreamy lunch or dinner overlooking sparkling Biscayne Bay. The dish that should on-repeat is the Tartufo Nero di Norcia, a heaping bowl of tagliardi (little squares of pasta) in a creamy black truffle butter sauce and crowned with wafer-thin slices of black truffle. End the meal with a mound of vanilla gelato. —ACC 2988 McFarlane Road, Miami; 305-800-7672; mrchotels.com.

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Truth be told, any dish you order at InRamen in South Miami is delicious. But if you’re looking for a piquant kick, stick with the Spicy Chicken Ramen.

The chicken broth is light and partnered with a healthy portion of shredded spicy miso chicken, egg, shredded chili pepper, scallion, roasted mushrooms and sesame-chili oil. You may sweat a bit, but it is worth every drop. Pro tip: order lime to balance the heat. —EMN

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Executive chef Pablo Lamon’s gorgeous new restaurant at the newly renovated Conrad Miami features a slate of dishes that are flavorful and diverse with Latin American influences. For a dessert as elegant and elevated as the 25th floor location, try the Hibiscus Crème Caramel With Lavender Crème Anglaise. It looks and tastes as fancy as it sounds. —JSP 1395 Brickell Avenue, 25th floor, Miami; 305-503-6529.

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True story: we have traveled miles from the other side of town for a taste of the exquisite White Cosmopolitan cocktail served at chef Daniel Boulud’s Miami spot (#noregrets). Equally worth the ride — especially on a Sunday morning — is Boulud Sud’s masterfully concocted Moroccan Shashouka. The Manouri cheese melts, the kale adds a bit of crunch and the poached egg practically screams “dip some bread in me.” And you will. —JSP 255 Biscayne Boulevard Way, Miami; 305-421-8800; bouludsud.com.

 NAVÉ, MAINE LOBSTER & CARROT RISOTTO Every year, there’s that one restaurant; the one that people — be it the most discerning food critic or our very own mothers — cannot stop raving about. Serving dish after dish of rich Italian-inspired “ocean fare,” Navé has been on the receiving end of a cascade of praise since its 2019 opening and with good reason. While any pasta-loving Italophile can find a favorite item on chefs Michael Beltran and Justin Flit’s menu, our hearts remain with the Maine Lobster & Carrot Risotto. Buttery and creamy, it may very well be this year’s dish — and restaurant — to beat. —JSP 3540 Main Highway, #C-103, Miami; 786-615-3747; navemiami.com.

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Words by Jennifer Agress

There’s a season of good change happening all over South Florida, and we can see it in the dining scene, too. Up next: supper clubs! From exciting underground pop-up dinners in unexpected locations, to transformative dining experiences that help the environment, these six supper clubs promise to be your new favorite way to go out to eat in South Florida.

Cobaya

At Cobaya’s “underground” pop-up dinners, what you see is what you get — and trust us, it’s a good thing. No one knows who the chef is and there is no set menu, no set format and no substitutions.

Diners only get in through a lottery system, and to keep it extra exclusive, they don’t even find out the location (which, of the 80+ dinners, has been everywhere from Ghee chef Niven Patel’s Homestead farm to a Bal Harbour Shops breezeway) until 24 hours before. “It’s done blind, and what the chef does is completely up to him or her,” says David Rosendorf, who founded Cobaya with fellow food bloggers Steve Berry and Steven Scharf. “Recently, we did an authentic Filipino ‘kamayan’ feast. We covered the whole table in banana leaves, put a large assortment of food on top of them and everyone ate with their hands.” Fun fact: Having just celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2019, Cobaya is also the longest-running supper club in Miami. Cobayamiami.com.

Lost Kitchen Supper Club

On Stock Island in the Florida Keys, chef Martin Liz offers a different kind of dining experience: a supper club aimed at the laid-back Key West crowd. “We don’t have much exposure to what’s happening on the mainland here, so over time, we notice that restaurants all have the same things on the menu,” Liz says. In 2016, the Key West native and fellow Lost Kitchen Supper Club co-founders, Bobby and Michelle Mongelli, made up for that by renting a dockside event space and art gallery, and launching a series of monthly dining events inspired by their travels. Popular among visiting foodies and locals alike, events sell out a month in advance and typically include a cocktail hour and a seated dinner. “Getting people to communicate is part of what we’re trying to do to build community,” Liz says.

“Sometimes you sit at a table with people you don’t know and leave with new friends.” Changing it up for 2020, Lost Kitchen Supper Club recently launched a calendar of dining events split into three specific themes: casual dining, guest chef dinners and pop-up dinners.

The coolest so far? A pop-up shrimp boil on the sandbar, accessible only by boat. 6810 Front Street, Stock Island; 305-896-2087; lostkitchenkeywest.com.

Opposite page and above: A dinner organized by Cobaya at the Bal Harbour Shops breezeway, with featured chefs Julian Baker of Le Zoo and Anthony Micari of Makoto; Key West and Caribbean fare at Lost Kitchen Supper Club.

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Craft Collective

As of January 2020, there’s a new supper club in town, and it’s from food influencer Shaina Wizov (@takeabiteoutofboca) and the guys behind Delray Beach’s wildly popular Craft Food Tours, Matt Guidice and Anthony Guzman. Hosting two dinner events twice a month, in restaurants spanning from north Broward County all the way to West Palm Beach, these members-only culinary experiences will be unlike anything the Palm Beaches have ever seen before. Here’s how it works: South Florida foodies can visit the Craft Collective website and pay an annual membership ($149/person), which earns them exclusive access to all Craft Collective dinners and discounts at participating restaurants and partner food and drink vendors. “At the end of the day, people want something unique for their hard-earned money,” says Guidice. “These events won’t be open to the public and members will get to meet the chefs, ask them questions and taste dishes that might not even be on the regular menu. Dinners like these are special, and they make you feel special, too.” sofladinnerclub.com.

OG Supper Club

When foodie and PR pro Lauren Melamed moved to Miami from New York, she found a lack of supper clubs that accommodated people from all walks of life. To fill that void, she and her mother, Leslie Wolfson, created one. Since launching in October 2018, they’ve thrown everything from a 200-person ‘passport’ dinner at St. Roch Market and a ‘Year of The Pig’ dinner and karaoke contest at 1-800-Lucky, to a joint pizza-making class, wine-and-cheese tasting and seated Italian feast at La Centrale (now Luna Park). “I believe people just want to be brought together by experiences, and they want to meet people in more natural settings,” says Melamed. “The Miami scene can be intimidating. We try to do unique experiences people might not have at a restaurant, where they can leave with a takeaway — whether that’s being educated about wine or learning how to make their own dumplings — and enjoy deep conversation with someone outside of their own circle.” @ogluttoness on Instagram.

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Members of Craft Collective can expect access to curated private dinners, as well as certain perks at select South Florida eateries; a colorful dish at one of OG Supper Club’s exclusive events.

Sustainable Supper Club

Sustainable Supper Club creates enticing and very edible offerings out of food waste; regional Mediterranean fare at a recent Saffron Supper Club and The Spice Detective collaboration dinner held at Jaffa inside St. Roch Miami.

Food waste is a hot topic all over the world, and two Miami socialites and philanthropists, Jennifer Weinberg and Mayela Lanza, are doing something about it. Started in 2018, Sustainable Supper Club is a pop-up dinner series committed to educating Miami’s finest on food waste education and sustainability practices, all while raising money for different environmental causes. “The key for us is to have a good time, learn something new and give back,” says Weinberg. Last October, the supper club hosted an elegant sit-down dinner with chef de cuisine Benjamin Murray, of Pao by Paul Qui, in the La Cava wine room at Faena Miami Beach. Every dish was made with food scraps that most people would throw away. (Think: fish skin ‘chips’ and bread with ‘beef scrap’ butter.) Later this month, Sustainable Supper Club will make its SOBEWFF® debut at the Prime Private dinner — hosted by renowned chefs Carlo Mirarchi, Brady Williams and Myles Restaurant Group’s own Marcelo Palacios — where they will speak to guests about simple ways we can be more sustainable while dining out. Then, join the fun at Sustainable Supper Club’s first-ever Planta brunch on Saturday, April 25th. sustainablesupper.org.

Saffron Supper Club

When food writer Sara Liss and chef Maude Eaton discovered their shared love of Persian cuisine, they wanted to share it with others, too.

Enter: Saffron Supper Club. At these wandering wine-pairing dinners, which take place all over South Florida, Miami’s top chefs make one-ofa-kind meals using traditional Middle Eastern flavors and ingredients.

While no two events are exactly the same, they all tend to start with a cocktail hour and move on to a seated meal with at least three courses and wine pairings for each. “Our first dinner was in January 2013 at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, and the theme was ‘Pomegranate and Roses,’” Liss recalls. “We put rose water on the table, and served a salmon dish with pomegranate molasses and a crème brûlée infused with rose water.” Adding elements of the duo’s shared culture is most important, so Liss stood up between courses and read Persian poetry about pomegranates in both its original Farsi and English. “One couple actually got engaged at that dinner. That was so special for us.” facebook.com/saffronsupperclub.

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Chapman Partnership celebrated its annual Illuminations Gala

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3. Maria Carvalho, Trish Bell, and Nancy Batchelor. 4. Brent and Karen McLaughlin.

5. Hansell Shook, Jennifer Marques, Isabella Soto, and Jacky Donate with Andrew Trench, Ana Rodriguez, Heather Wilson, and Alan Rosenberg. 6. Guests enjoyed the evening's speeches and special performances. 7. Gary and Symeria Hudson, president and CEO of Chapman Partnership. 8. Laurie Jennings and Sherrill Hudson with Trish Bell and Peter Pruitt. 9. Tomas Erban and Jacquie O’Malley with Carlos Hernandez and Jacky Donate. 10. Sherrill and Mary Ann Hudson.

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This year’s Gala Chairs, Heide and Jose “Pepe” Dans, led a 30-member gala committee made up of some of Miami’s most influential community ambassadors who advocate on behalf of Chapman Partnership and joined together to create an unforgettable evening celebrating the dedicated volunteers and donors.

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On the evening of National YoungArts Foundation’s annual Backyard Ball, supporters gathered to honor jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard (1980 YoungArts Winner in Classical Music) and conceptual artist Teresita Fernández with the Arison Alumni Award and Arison Award, as well as the two winners of this year's Jorge M. Pérez Award. The event, which featured an anticipated extravaganza of performances, culminated National YoungArts Week, the organization’s signature weeklong program, and celebrated the achievements of the nation’s most accomplished young artists in the literary, visual and performing arts.

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1. Luis Olarte and Teresita Fernandez with Terence Blanchard and Christian Wardle. 2. Mateo Nava and Ilana Harris-Babou (recipients of the Jorge M. Pérez Award) together with Darlene and Jorge Pérez. 3. Marvin Friedman and Adrienne Bon Haes.

4. Sarah Arison, YoungArts Board Chair. 5. Oxana and Steven Marks, Co-Chairs. 6. Sandra and Tony Tamer, Honorary Chairs. 7. Franklin Sirmans and Nadege Green. 8. Yolanda and Jeff Berkowitz. 9. Terry Zucker with Jamie and Asha Elias. 10. Invitees gathered under the YoungArts tent. 11. Danielle Garno.

12. Mercedes Ferreira-Dias, a YoungArts alumni and contestant on The Voice Season 15, performed onstage during the gala.

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National YoungArts Foundation hands out top arts honors at this year’s Backyard Ball

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The League Against Cancer / Liga Contra El Cancer celebrated its annual Snow Ball Gala on December ��, ���� The glamorous annual Gala, which took place at the Trump National Hotel in Doral, welcomed over 600 influential leaders within Miami’s social and corporate communities. The Gala was chaired by Manny and Denise Alfonso and Dr. Luis and Jennifer Villa, who helmed an unforgettable night filled with music, dance, food and charity to help raise much needed funds to support the organization’s mission to save lives.

The League Against Cancer’s commitment to lifesaving matters has been a lasting one. La LIGA accepts children and adult patients — without distinction of race, creed or nationality - that have established legal residence in the State of Florida, thus saving Florida tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The League Against Cancer provides free services including case reviews and social services. They also assist patients who require necessary surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, laboratory services and radiology, medication, prosthetics, hospice care, breast and PAP screening, and psychological support.

The League Against Cancer gives all to make this an exciting annual event, highlighting their genuine pledge to fight for a world without cancer.

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7. Living Dolls Dance Factory. 8. Dr. Armando Hassun and Jackie Nespral. 9. Angel and Cynthia Nicolas. 10. Buri and Alex Fernandez.

11. Teresa and Julio Rebull. 12. Dr. Rafael Mas and María Eugenia Mas Del Valle.

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St yle was on display at the exclusive Art Basel Miami Beach Collectors Preview In the early hours of the first day of the massive art maze that is known as Art Basel Miami Beach, fairgoers strutted their style in a plethora of black — standard wear for the art set. But as the day went on, INDULGE Contributing Senior Fashion Editor Elysze Held couldn't help but be distracted by eye-catching attendees who demonstrated a devotion to creative usage of color.

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1. Sofia Poma in Réalisation Par dress, Isabel Marant booties, with Cecilia Poma in a jacket by Alexis, Prada shoes and a Gucci bag. 2. Jane Woolridge setting the tone for the day in a timeless black and white Trina Turk coat. 3. Diane Lieberman was classically cool in accessories by Valentino and Chloé. 4. Marie Louise Stoffel in Versace with artist Chani Ra in vintage collectibles.

5. Brandi Reddick in a Georgia Hardinge dress and Perrin Paris bag. 6. John Lin combined Homme Plissé Issey Miyake ankle-grazing pants, a blazer by AMI, and a Fendi shirt with a Prada bag.

7. Nancy Luria Cohen in a Helmut Lang turtleneck and athletic wear pants by Castings. 8. KHyal and Karl Heine, both outfitted in KHyal’s eponymous line, accessorized with Puma sneakers and Christian Roth glasses. 9. PR doyenne Susan Magrino in Sies Marjan dress, Ashley Pittman vintage necklaces, and a Reed Krakoff bag. 10. Kate Shanley in a vibrant print jumpsuit and tribal necklace she picked up in her travels in South Africa. 11. Curator Maria Britto posed in a Halpern dress in front of artwork by George Condo at the Skardstedt Gallery booth.

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Two things make a gala legendary: the opulent dress code and the performances availed to guests. The 63rd annual Vizcaya Ball checked off both boxes, becoming one of the most memorable nights in Miami’s recent history. Hosted by Roxy Vargas of NBC 6, the evening featured more than 400 guests, an elegant dinner by A Joy Wallace Catering and a festive spectacular firework display high above the property’s historic stone barge. A staple on Miami’s social calendar, the event raised funds for the continued preservation of this National Historic Landmark, ensuring it can continue to serve as a community resource for another 100 years.

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1. Victor Diaz in traditional Viennese Ball garb with Swanee DiMare in Marchesa. 2. Adam and Alexa Wolman, both in Gucci.

3. Nathalie Cadet-James in vintage ballgown and clutch.

4. Marile Lopez in a Garnett Avenue opera coat over an Oscar de la Renta gown. 5. Tatiana Teo in a Jovani ballgown, together with Andrew Teo in Hugo Boss. 6. Jenni Coba in Gucci with a headpiece by Atomic Weldhaus Welding. 7. Ariel Penzer Milgroom in Dennis Basso gown with one of the gala’s performers. 8. Lesli Brown in a Johanna Ortiz gown with a headpiece by Shapoh Hats. 9. Krista Rosenberg in Zac Posen accessorized with unique vintage necklaces, and Arina Feeney in Badgley Mishka. 10. Lydia Touzet, Kim Wood and Barbara Hevia each rocked a glamorous gown by Mayda Cisneros Haute Couture.

11. A group of the evening’s performers rocking their rococo.

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efined as a gathering where attendees bring food for a leisurely style of eating outdoors, the word “picnic” dates back to a 17th century French word: pique-nique. This French gastronomical tradition is a point of national pride, since gastronomy plays a huge part in the culture of its people.

With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that storied French luxury label Louis Vuitton, which has been around since the 1800s, has created several unique trunks over the years for the purpose of dining on the go. Inspired by the trunks in the House’s archives, the new Malle Pique-Nique trunk inspires the continuation of the elegant practice of picnicking. Beautifully outfitted with everything from Limoges plates and containers, to silver-plated utensils and jacquard LV monogramed cotton tablecloth and napkins, the trunk allows for four people to share a gourmet moment wherever they travel in style. In this, the height of Miami’s season of glorious weather, delight in dining alfresco with the joie de vivre of a true Francophile.

Malle Pique-Nique, price upon request. Louis Vuitton. 140 Northeast 39th Street, Design District; 305-573-1366; louisvuitton.com.

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