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Chef Carlos Jorge's menu at the high-romantic, $210 million Resort at Singer Island is small and precisely focused where everything else here is over-the-top glamorous. The menu leans heavily to fresh, cleanly prepared seafood, including playful takes on Eastern standards like a hot, sour-and-sweet Kobe beef salad ($16) and a pad Thai-ish dish called "Chinatown Noodles" with prawns, ginger, tamarind, and cilantro ($29); or Vietnamese spring rolls with shrimp ($13). Snapper is bathed in coconut curry or scented with adobo seasoning and served with mashed plantains and sweet potatoes. A shellfish hotpot makes a brew of mussels, shrimp, and clams. Selections from the "Earth" include island jerk lamb ($34) and a "spicy kaffir lime duck breast" with baby bok choy and sweet potato purée ($34). Asian- and Carib-themed desserts are a knockout.
It's probably no coincidence that two of our choices for best restaurants this year, Cero and Solu, are brought to us by the same outfit: Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Starwood evidently doesn't fool around when it comes to hiring terrific chefs and giving them the resources to make culinary magic — not to mention a fantastical setting to dish it up in. The Resort at Singer Island is magic; what looks like one more dull tower on the outside reveals an interior of swirling color and swooping forms, of striated woods and vanilla cream banquettes, of rooms so luscious you hardly need to eat anything to feel utterly done in. But you will eat, because chef Carlos Jorge has put together a menu of Asian and Caribbean-inspired haute cuisine as sparkling as the polished windows overlooking the sea, as brilliant as the uplighting that makes everybody look so gorgeous. A salad of slivered kobe beef with watercress, daikon, peanuts, and cucumber is a sophisticated joke on Thai yum nua; Jorge plays similar tongue-in-chic games with crab Rangoon, potstickers, and spring rolls. Entrées gather a basket of island ingredients such as jicama, coconut, boniato, ancho chilies, sweet potatoes, and tamarind to dress up steaks, chops, and fillets of snapper and branzino. Sunday brunch, with its endless ocean views, is a more affordable knockout: try the Solu crab benedict.
It's probably no coincidence that two of our choices for best restaurants this year, Cero and Solu, are brought to us by the same outfit: Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Starwood evidently doesn't fool around when it comes to hiring terrific chefs and giving them the resources to make culinary magic -- not to mention a fantastical setting to dish it up in. The Resort at Singer Island is magic; what looks like one more dull tower on the outside reveals an interior of swirling color and... More »
Evidently, Starwood Hotel & Resorts is bullish on our little burg. Thumbing their noses at pesky, persistent rumors that the southern tip of Florida will eventually be as completely submerged as the Lost City of Atlantis, the optimists at... More »
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