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The best new hotel and restaurant in South Beach Vintro Hotel and Kitchen Rating: September 16, 2014
The best new hotel and restaurant in South Beach? That would be Vintro Hotel and Kitchen. Honoring its Art Deco roots, this former Park Avenue hotel maintains the facade built in Patton Group Inc
1934. Nestled along the quaint Collins Canal, Vintro Hotel authentically
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presents a vintage and retro design,
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Guests enter into a wide open lobby furnished with cozy tufted sofas, artisanal hand-crafted wood-work, and a 1950’s era bar supported by an expansive mirror and glam artwork. While the design will inspire immediately, guests will note the lack of a traditional check in desk. Smartly, Vintro adopted modern technology to minimize the hassle of arrival, a clarified approach felt throughout the hotel. While the outside is South Beach Art Deco, the inside is designed by St. Barth-based
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Guillermo de Yavorsky. He incorporated modern art, 1950’s throwback glam, and a bit of playboy risqué to produce rooms with voyeur showers and windows with views by restaurant patrons. Each of the hotel’s 50 rooms is a pop-up gallery housing works by emerging artists curated by Miami artist and DJ Zoel Zupstar. Works include Alejandro Vigilante’s Neo-Pop art, and large-scale, photo-realistic oil portraits from Derek Wilson, a local artist and art teacher. The lobby ports into the Vintro Kitchen, a restaurant managed by 2014 James Beard Award Finalist Giorgio Bakastias, founder of 30 restaurants. This culinary genius spent childhood wandering his Greek mother’s garden, which inspires Giorgio’s choice and integration of seasoning, sauces, vegetables, and fruits. One senses the influence of Greece and Mediterranean Italy in the tasty yet light ingredients that infuse the dishes. For example the traditional Italian antipasto Carpaccio de Pesce is rendered modern with a touch of ginger, yuzu, apple, and chili. The Greek even shines through in basics such as steamed vegetables mixed with lemon yogurt and feta cheese. The hotel’s restaurant constantly transforms the mundane into the heavenly. One begins with the lightly fried calamari with mango slices, diced tomatoes, and cilantro salad. Then try the lightly seared tuna with cucumbers and the grilled octopus alongside onions, fennel, and orange. Don’t miss the grilled caramelized sea scallops wrapped in bacon before finishing the meal with a light cheesecake parfait in a jar, leaving you satisfied but not gluttonous. Is that not the Mediterranean way with food? Whether dining, drinking, swimming, or relaxing in the room, the Vintro Hotel and Kitchen inspires guests with presentation, design, service, art, and location in South Beach. Guests are three blocks from the ocean, and across the street from two South Beach cultural institutions: Miami City Ballet and Bass Museum of Art. Just outside the maelstrom of South Beach night life, guests rejuvenate before seeking the glam and action of South Beach, just a few blocks away. Sponsored Links by Taboola
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