Unplugged and Uncorked

Wanna show your honey a good time at some swanky South Beach spot without leaving with your wallet feeling like it's been worked over by a couple of guys with brass knuckles and two-by-fours? Then check out Unplugged and Uncorked at Essensia, the swanky restaurant and lounge at the swanky Palms Hotel & Spa. Every Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m., you get half off all wines -- both bottle and by the glass. Then there's a menu of $9 munchies -- from duck confit flatbread pizza to lamb sliders to Thai-style rock shrimp fritters. But wait, there's more. Like live music every week -- different local musicians, different musical styles. And stabling your internally combusted steed is cheap too (at least by SoBe standards) at all of nine smackers. And if that's not cheap enough for you, have you considered Kendall?