![]() ![]() ![]() 727/456-8660 Culinary breakthrough on Pinellas beaches: 21st-century Spanish. Avenue 5 (Naples) Cowboy steak CASTILE, Contemporary Latin St Pete Beach (Zamora Hotel) 3701 Gulf Blvd. His “Healthful Regional’’ is gluten-free, long on litchis, mango and seafood - like conch, barbequed shrimp and Florida clams - on lentils, plus meatier ropa vieja, oxtail and goat. 305/907-5535 Local hero Kris Wessel (Red Light, Florida Cookery) named this for Miami’s bedrock because he is devoted to home-grown ingredients and pitches it as good for you, too. OOLITE RESTAURANT & BAR, Floridian Miami Beach 1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NIU is tiny, smart and bursting with flavor from tomato-rubbed bread and Catalan sausages to wahoo tartare and other fresh seafood, with Spanish wines and cavas. 786/542-5070 Now you can taste the proud, quirky corner of Spain that produced Dalí and el Bulli, peasant plain tomato bread and molecular truffle foam. Exquisite ingredients presented with beauty and grace. If you can’t pop $200 a person for the omakase of Kevin Cory’s natural Japanese at NAOE, get one of the 16 seats at his new communal table for lunch. 305/947-6263 A dream sushi lunch at a relatively bargain price: An $80 bento box (plus tax and 18% gratuity). ![]() N BY NAOE, Japanese Miami 661 Brickell Key Dr. Smart cocktails and great digestivi list. Food is robust: Start with burrata, lamb meatballs or oxtail cannelloni and go on to pork chops and favas or branzino with artichokes. 786/245-6211 Rustic or urbane, this is Italian with gusto - and Miami’s first official bocce court - from the gang behind SushiSamba and Sugarcane Raw Bar. BOCCE, Contemporary Italian Miami 3252 N.E. Grant’s wizardry creates scallop dumplings, gin “snow” and souffléd amaranth. Truffles, caviar and Wagyu beef, sure, but in bright combinations with sweet corn, turnips and mint. His food is fresh and modern, elegant, not glitzy or rustic. 305/763-8860 Subtlety is in fashion on the plate again, thanks to Danny Grant, who arrived here trailing two stars of Michelin glory from Chicago. 1826 RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE, Contemporary Miami Beach 1826 Collins Ave. Tolf ran the Golden Spoon Awards for 34 years. Tolf Award for Best New Restaurant Before retiring in 2007, F LORIDA T REND Restaurant Editor Robert W. Glossy design, sign, stunning wine and bottomless mimosas at Sunday brunch. Smart cooking from lobster sliders to prime delmonico, with duck flatbread and golden beets in between. 239/403-7170 The old McCabe’s pub got all dressed up to strut a new image on 5th. AVENUE 5, Contemporary Naples 699 5th Ave. Paired with brilliant wines and elegant space. All served with small plates of skewers, flatbreads and risotto. 727/851-9582 Ever fantasize spending a night eating and drinking all through a deli? Now live the dream in a wine bar from Tampa Bay’s beloved source for artisan cheese, charcuterie and bread. Go for the pickle board and hope for smoked clams. Menu as direct as the “strong mustard’’ that comes with chicken liver mousse and cornmeal waffles. 772/324-8357 Local ingredients are serious and fun from house-cured bacon to “yard” eggs. ![]() FL O R I D A T R E N D ’ S Best New Restaurants Southeast Miami DISTRICT TABLE & BAR, Southern Farm to Table Stuart 900 S.E. ![]()
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