There's no reason to endure the year's best restaurant promotion alone. While you stay tuned for that, we're breaking down Miami Spice by neighborhoods, beginning with South Beach, where 75 eateries will dish out three-course prix fixe meals at reduced prices ($23 for lunch and $39 for dinner).
What follows are the five best (and worth dealing with traffic, tourists, and astronomical valet prices) Miami Spice menus in Miami Beach. Plus, all of them are available every night (so you can Spice it up on date night), with the exception of Macchialina Thursdays because of its summer $10 pasta night, which is probably a better deal anyway. Offering a range of delectables, from a raw bar platter laden with dressed oysters to handmade pasta and fresh sea bream straight from the Mediterranean, these restaurants are putting on their Miami Spice game face.
Michael Mina 74
Michael Mina's subterranean digs are worth a visit year-round, but especially during Miami Spice, when chef de cuisine Thomas Griese has the chance to be playful and inventive. Don't be surprised if menu items change throughout the promotion. For now, however, the winning combo here is the summer crab roll with crab three ways (Alaskan king crab, jumbo lump, and snow crab), cilantro, and warm buttered ponzu; bay scallop ditalini pasta with basil pesto, pine nuts, and aged Parmesan air; and churros with dulce de leche.
Lure Fishbar
Where else can you get a raw platter consisting of four dressed oysters, two shrimp, and two middleneck clams followed by pristinely cooked yellowtail snapper with mango-jícama salad and
Macchialina
Have you had Michael Pirolo's creamy and heavenly polenta? What about his handmade, beet-filled mezzaluna crowned with hazelnuts and bathed in brown-butter ricotta
The Dutch
Absolutely nothing from Andrew Carmellini's the Dutch Miami Spice menu is on the regular menu, and that — along with the fact that chef de cuisine Conor Hanlon is hands down one of the most underrated chefs in the city — is exactly what makes it a must-try. Sure, if you want to go with the Peruvian
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