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The Scoop: Your Guide to South Florida's Trendiest Hotspots
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CAPTAIN HOOKED Booking boats gets a whole lot easier come March 15, when Immidia launches its Miami operations. A cross between Uber and Airbnb, the no-brainer app for luxury transportation worldwide adds yachts to its fleet, whether pleasure crafts or sailboats and catamarans. In a mere three clicks minus the middleman, scroll through options for premier vessels; select departure and arrival dates and ports, and customize amenities and services, including toys like jet skis and paddle boards, and dining from picnic baskets to bubbles. Pay with a stored credit card; receive your order confirmation and recap, and anchors away. Yachts, captains and crews have been vetted by experienced experts in the luxury boating and hospitality industries. It expands to Dubai, St. Barts, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca and the French Riviera soon.
immidia.com
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GROVE GOURMET Coconut Grove’s renaissance continues with Ariete, a restaurant cofounded by two old pals from Miami, including the Cypress Room’s former sous chef. Cy Davis designed the bilevel, 80-seat space with a wine cellar for intimate dinner parties; a pending terrace adds more seating. The new American menu specializes in artisanal ingredients—house-cured charcuterie and homemade terrines and pickles. Expanding beyond conventional fare, they incorporate game like venison, and creative delicacies such as bone marrow-flavored oysters and foie gras with sour orange vinegar, caramel and cacao nibs. If that seems too heavy, opt for wood-grilled chicken with salsa verde and fish with fennel and white beans. Dallas Wynne, a protégé of Michael’s Genuine pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith, bakes pies and doughnuts to dunk in homemade marmalades.
3540 Main Highway; 305.640.5862; arietemiami.com
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We'll see you next week with even more of South Florida's places to go! |
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