Miami Dish loves a limoncello. We may have to send our John diRocco to The Tides Hotel to see if he approves of this unorthodox use of the yellow elixir. Chef Pietro Rota, of Tides’ restaurant La Marea, makes his own stash, which he uses for the genius invention of limoncello popsicles. The popsicles garnish summery martinis.
Pair one of these with a complimentary plate of tapas, and you can forget your worries and cares about what vegetable will next be recalled. During the Friday happy hour, a popsicle martini will set you back $10. If that seems too steep, make your own limoncello at home with this Video Bite.
When: Fridays throughout the summer, 5 pm to 9 pm
Where: The Tides Hotel, 1220 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
How much: Limoncello popsicle martini is $10. Some beer and wine is offered for $5. Complimentary tapas offered with first round of drinks.
Michael does his own thing
If you check out the list of restaurants offering Miami Spice deals (starting Friday!), you may notice the absence of a star South Florida restaurant. When you’re the media darling, why run with the pack?
Michael’s Genuine offers its own summer special with the Genuine Prix Fixe lunch and dinner menus. The lunch is available Mondays through Thursdays and will set you back $22, plus tax and tip. Dinner is offered Sundays through Thursdays and is priced at $35. The menu will change, based on seasonality and freshness.
The lunch menu for the first week offers an appetizer: soup of the day, panzanella salad, or crispy sweet and spicy pork belly; a main course: chopped salad, pulled pork sandwich, or wood roasted fish of the day; and a dessert: summer peaches or the chocolate cremoso (which I highly recommend if you can appreciate salt in a dessert!).
The dinner menu for the first week, which starts Sunday, features a choice of homemade country pate on grilled sourdough, house salad or house smoked sockeye salmon rillettes for appetizer; selection of wood oven pizza with braised beef, smoked tomato, and grilled eggplant or grilled rib eye cap steak or pan roasted local yellowjack for the entrée; and choice of summer peaches or chocolate cremoso for dessert.
Of course, since Michael’s Genuine is as trendy (for good reason) as gourmet frozen yogurt and pork bellies put together, I strongly recommend making a reservation.
When: Sunday, August 3rd though Tuesday, September 30th
Lunch is available Mondays through Thursdays, 11:30 am to 3 pm
Dinner is available Sundays through Thursdays, 5:30 pm to 11 pm (except Sunday, when they close at 10 pm)
Where: Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, 130 NE 40th Street, Miami
How much: Lunch is $22. Dinner is $35. (Tax and tip excluded.)
This is a real nice clambake
Ahh, New England. Half the people I know are talking about moving north, where life is calmer, the people are nicer, the living is cheaper, the traffic is better and well, maybe not. While we’re romanticizing (me included), let’s have a clambake! What’s that, you say? Too hot and too humid for northern dreaming? Let’s have it INSIDE, in the air conditioning! Better yet, let’s just go to the Oceanaire Seafood Room for their New England Clambake Dinner.
Every Sunday throughout Miami Spice season, you can dine on soup or salad, a one-and-a-half pound lobster, mussels, clams, corn on the cob, roasted potatoes and dessert. This fine overindulgence costs $36 per person, and you can add a glass of house wine for $5. Now that’s fittin’ for an angels’ choir.
When: Sundays August 3rd through September 30th, 5 pm to 10 pm
Where: The Oceanaire Seafood Room, Mary Brickell Village, 900 S. Miami Avenue, Miami
How much: $36 per person, excluding tax and tip
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