It is early and I’ve been up for hours as I sleep little, am jetlagged and on this occasion woke up with meat sweats from an overdose of of rare flesh.
Lots come here aka South Beach aka SoBe for the beaches and the nightlife, I got involved with the latter but why swim near an international port?
The food options around here are pretty sensational and I’ve been stuffing myself silly with sushi and steaks. Took out a lady friend so I brought her to Toni’s and had their sashimi platter; it was good but not worth $70 and the clam made me want to vomit. Afterwards we hit up Foxhole which was a good club.
I hit up Moshi Moshi for lunch and it was delicious; my friend who lives in South Beach recommended it and now I’m passing on the word. I had a sushi roll at Chesterfield Hotel and it was decent but nothing special so I’ll stop talking about it now.
Last night I went to RED The Steakhouse and it was exquisite. The fine people there set me up with a Chef’s Tasting Menu… Just a few things being processed in my stomach now include stone crab, Alaskan king crab, prime certified angus beef and of course Kobe beef sent by Fedex straight from Japan.
Do you know much about Kobe beef? I didn’t but think it’s unreal that they massage the cows because basically any stress makes the meat tough and we’re buying a steak, not a bouncer.
Kobe beef is an acquired taste and very fatty. It almost “melts in your mouth” but I can’t keep a straight face saying it so we’ll leave it in quotes. The prime certified angus beef is some of the top beef you can buy in North America and was out of this world. I loved the Kobe but my associate preferred the certified angus so it’s really a matter of preference.
I’m flying to Managua in a few hours then off to Little Corn Island after doing some shopping, activating sim cards, $12 teeth cleaning and loading up some goods for a new business venture. Little Corn is just developing and lots of amenities aren’t there yet, why not be the guy who bring$ them?
I really liked it here and I’ll be back; Miami is a real hub for flights and easiest way for me to go from C. America to Europe. Oh yeah, this was sunrise an hour ago.
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Beautiful Sunrise..!
*That asparagus..wowza..That’s down right Beautiful, too..
Yes, a steak isn’t a steak without a side of asparagus imo.
Having grown up in Miami in the ’60s and ’70s (yes, that would be 1960s and 1970s) I can tell you that South Beach was a dump.
It was full of drug addicts and porno shops. Half of the stores in the Lincoln Road Mall area were boarded up as was the area near the MB Convention Center.
Rascal House was a pretty good old style deli, but closed up due to the yuppification of the area.
Monty Trainer’s across the Bay in Dinner Key Grove area has a good raw bar and of course Joe’s Stone Crabs is usually a good bet.
I’ve heard good things about Joe’s Stone Crabs but the rest is new to me. I can see the place being a dump before yuppification took over; it sounds like Palermo in Buenos Aires.
Went from sh!thole to in style aka out with the old and in with the new.
I was there for about twenty years. For a while in the late ’70s I lived in the Hotel Harrison, I think it was $128 a month. Pad locks on the room doors, cockroaches would scatter when you entered, noises and the smell of cooking from the other occupants.
After a while I moved to a guest cottage behind a house on North Bay Road.
Later South Beach changed into what it is today.
Let’s see, there was the Villa Deli, Lums, Piccolo (an Italian place near Joes), Roney Pub, and Wolfies 21st Street; where I lost my first American Express card in between the booth cushion. Good thing I had cash.
I’ve stayed at plenty of places like that and the reclamation project went well as the beach was really wide. That said, I still don’t get the appeal of swimming near an international port where there are freighters floating half a mile from where you swim.
Makes me think of Sentosa in Singapore it’s their “beach” but it’s littered with oil tankers. I remember arriving there a week or so after spending weeks on the Thai Islands and didn’t think much of it.
Also- some of you may not know this-
The wide amazing Miami Beach is actually sand pumped up from offshore. When I first started going there the beach was very narrow, as little at 50 feet. Hotels had erected walls on their property borders extending out into the water. It was pretty bad.
The beach reclamation project turned a dismal beach into something much better.
I live at the Flamingo on South Beach. Come play some basketball at 7PM!
No idea where that is but I’ll be back in April; thanks for the invite.