Miami Living Magazine features the best Miami has to offer. Click on any magazine below and enjoy. You can download our free app on iTunes. Ideal for iPad and iPhone users.
Issue link: https://digital.miamilivingmagazine.com/i/1011164
Next door, Fi'lia, Miami's James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schwartz's popular artisan Italian restaurant, presents breads, pizza, and pasta (including gluten- free) with simple authentic ingredients. Classics like Caesar salad tableside and rigatoni Bolognese are countered by corn agnolotti in roasted lobster sauce or braised short rib crespelle with béchamel, taleggio and fontina cheeses. Fi'lia's desserts satisfy with a Meyer lemon ricotta tart, an olive oil cake with honey meringue, and an apricot crostata. Downtown old Nassau is well worth a visit. Stroll through their famous straw market off Bay Street and then walk passed the Pirate's Museum to Graycliff, a historic mansion built in 1740. Now a 20-room, old-world hotel with a fabulous pool and lush gardens, the Garzaroli family offers its formal restaurant with the Caribbean's most famous wine cellar, a boutique cigar company, a chocolatier, an airport lounge, and the Piazza, a new casual restaurant featuring lionfish, meats, and Italian specialties. For lunch, in the main restaurant taste their classic conch chowder with sherry pepper, grouper with tomatoes, and Bahamian guava duff with brandy butter sauce. The amazing wine cellar boasts over 275,000 bottles, a "million-dollar rack," standouts like an 1865 Chateau Lafite to a trendy 2001 Screaming Eagle Napa Cabernet, and a candle-lit room for private dining. Graycliff employs sixteen torcedores (rollers), produces five cigar brands, offers cigar rolling lessons, and a tour with cigar and rum pairing. Kids will love the chocolate factory, from the history of cocoa beans, the roasting and grinding to pouring liquid chocolate into moulds; while parents might prefer the chocolate and premium spirits pairing with rum, whiskey, and port. Back at SLS Baha Mar, I met with GM Alexander for drinks at the Monkey Bar. He told me that a large waterpark was planned next door for 2019 as well as the opening of their 20th floor Skybar with Nassau's most spectacular ocean view. Over a Monkey 47 dry gin tonic, Richard told me, "In our SLS brand, we consider monkeys as very intelligent creatures, both witty and mischievous. It goes along with our image of being whimsical." I couldn't agree more! ML For more information, visit slsbahamar. com and www.graycliff.com.