New Restaurant Opens at the Esmé Miami Beach

At the boutique Esmé Miami Beach hotel, a new bistro-style restaurant has opened. Replacing the former Latin Cafe 2000, located at 2501 Biscayne Blvd., Miami Beach, Mimi’s will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner and will incorporate some of the most bizarre combinations yet tasty egg creations you will probably ever eat.

The former chef of Pao at the Faena House in Miami Beach, Benjamin Murray will be taking over as head chef at Mimi’s. According to Murray, “Miami has become a thriving foodie destination…and with Mimi’s relaxed-casual American classics will be the new spot.”

Mimi’s space was designed by CDK Design’s Cindy Kam, which includes an indoor and outdoor floorplan. The scene is set with a cafe bistro style mixed with industrial decor.

The egg creations include Osstera Caviar, which is considered the most prized and extensive caviar in the world. All of the food items will don some version of the Caviar. Benjamin Murray and Michael Kaplan, owners of Mimi’s, came up with the concept after their opening of Benh Mi, which is another restaurant that connects to the lobby of Esmé Miami Beach.

Breakfast and lunch will be self-service only and dinner, as well as happy hour, is full service. Fresh coffees and pastries are serviced daily at the bakery and a full breakfast menu is served until 8 am. The menu includes signature dishes like egg sandwiches, cured salmon on an everything bagel, burgers, and Binchotan-grilled steak and egg combos.

Signature Breakfast Menu

• FRIED CHICKEN & WAFFLES
  • Crispy hand-breaded chicken and two malted waffles with maple syrup.
• STEAK & EGGS
  • 28-day aged 10 oz. USDA Choice New York Strip. Housemade herb butter available upon request. Served with roasted potatoes and two eggs.
• FARMHOUSE BREAKFAST TACOS
  • Hickory-smoked bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, roasted potatoes, cheddar cheese, jalapeño, tomato, onion and cilantro in flour tortillas. Served with salsa.
• BREAKFAST BURRITO
  • Flour tortilla stuffed with braised beef, melted jack and cheddar cheese, scrambled eggs, avocado, tomato, jalapeño, green onion and cilantro. Topped with spicy chipotle sauce and served with roasted potatoes.
• EGGS & BACON CROISSANT SANDWICH
  • Bacon, two fried eggs, sliced tomatoes, melted cheddar and mayonnaise on a flaky croissant. Served with sliced tomatoes.
• BROWN SUGAR OATMEAL
  • Rolled oats sprinkled with brown sugar and cranberries, served with milk.

Signature Entrees

• ROASTED HALF CHICKEN
  • Slow-roasted with housemade herb butter. Served with choice of two sides. (600 Cal)
• TUSCAN STYLE GRILLED CHICKEN
  • Grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, sautéed vegetables and artichoke hearts served in a savory sauce.
• SLOW-ROASTED TURKEY
  • Slow-roasted turkey with gravy, cornbread stuffing and orange-apple cranberry relish. Served with choice of two sides.
• CHICKEN POT PIE
  • Freshly baked with roasted chicken, peas, carrots, onions and potatoes folded into a creamy herb sauce. Topped with a flaky crust.
• FRENCH POT ROAST
  • Slowly braised and simmered with carrots, mushrooms and onions. Served on a bed of mashed potatoes.
• MIMI’S MEATLOAF
  • Our own traditional recipe topped with a red wine shallot sauce. Served with choice of two sides.
• RIBEYE STEAK
  • 28-day aged, 10 oz. USDA Choice ribeye steak. House-made herb butter available upon request, your choice blackened or grilled. Served with choice of two sides.
• POT ROAST DINNER
  • Slowly braised and simmered in red wine shallot gravy. Served with choice of two sides.
• NEW YORK STRIP STEAK
  • 10 oz. USDA Choice New York Strip dry-aged 28 days, blackened or grilled. Housemade herb butter available upon request. Served with choice of two sides.
• SWEET GLAZED SALMON
  • Grilled and topped with a sweet honey glaze. Served with sautéed vegetables and long grain rice. Blackened or grilled. Served with choice of two sides.
• BEER BATTERED FISH & CHIPS
  • Hand-battered cod fillets with french fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• JAMBALAYA
  • Shrimp, chicken and andouille sausage, bell peppers and onions in a French Basque tomato sauce. Served over penne pasta or long grain rice, your choice.

Faena Selling the Twelve Penthouses of the Faena Hotel, Where a Nightclub Used to Be

In the middle of the 20th Century, when the Faena Hotel was the Saxony Hotel, a penthouse floor was added that contained a rooftop nightclub, with an exterior non-stop elevator for access from the lobby. When Alan Faena redeveloped the hotel, the decision was made to turn that level, as well as the level below, into luxury residences, and to sell them as The Residences at Faena Hotel Miami Beach.

Fully furnished in sort of an Art Deco/Miami Modern flair, with lots of white and gold, penthouses begin at $2.5 million for a one-bedroom unit at just over 800 square feet, with the largest being over 3,300 square feet. Even though the hotel itself has been open for about six months, the Faena organization just recently started selling the thirteen units. The first went to “New Yorkers” for $5.5 million in June, which is probably why the sales site, which just went up a little over a week ago with these gorgeous interior photographs, only mentions twelve units.

Faena Arts Center Starts Teasing Us Early as It Nears Completion

Mid-beach’s Faena Hotel and Faena House residential tower may be done already, and making a big impression on Miamians and out-of-towners for their glamour, their theatricality, and their designs, but it’s easy to forget that those two statement-making buildings are just the first section of the larger Faena District to debut.

Two more luxury condo towers called Versailles Classic and Faena Mar, retail, and a high-design parking iceberg are all cranes-up and underway, whizzing around a cylindrical arts center and forum, which is probably the closest of all to completion.  Meanwhile, Allan Faena and his crew are wasting no time in teasing the forum’s arts potential, with a savvy Faena Art Facebook Page covering both Faena’s existing Buenos Aires arts center, the future Miami Beach arts center, and the $75,000 Faena arts prize. The new Faena Forum Miami Beach, in a building designed by starchitect Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture will debut this fall. Check out a video experimenting with its potential, inside the unfinished space, here: