Landry’s Restaurant Group Menus Add Special Seasoning to Miami Spice

The Oceanaire Seafood Room

During the months of August and September, the city of Miami has teamed up with an impressive lineup of restaurants to host Miami Spice. Participating Landry’s restaurants include Morton’s The Steakhouse, Chart House and The Oceanaire Seafood Room.

Miami Spice has grown to be quite popular because it gives people in Miami an opportunity to experience the city’s exceptional restaurants for an affordable price. Each restaurant is required to create a three-course menu for both lunch and dinner.

Waterfront dining at Chart House

Landry’s restaurants are recognized in Miami for their delicious menus and boast items that guarantee a fine dining experience. Some of these items can be found on the various Miami Spice menus, such as:  Oceanaire’s Parmesan Crusted Maine Lobster Tail for dinner, Oceanaire’s Steamed Prince Edward Island Mussels for lunch, Morton’s Baked Five Onion Soup for dinner, and the Chicken Bianco for lunch. Additionally, Chart House is offering a Slow Roasted Prime Rib and Spiced Yellowfin Ahi Tuna. Lunch is $19 or $23, and dinner is $33 or $39.

A complete listing of all menu items can be found on the Miami Spice webpage:

• The Oceanaire Seafood Room
• Chart House
• Morton's The Steakhouse
• Coral Gables
• Miami

All Aboard! Christmas, New Year's and Dinner Cruises with Island Queen Cruises

Island Queen Cruises is offering several amazing cruises! Don't miss out on any of them!

Christmas Day Dinner Cruise Miami

Every year families travel from around the world to sunny Miami to spend Christmas with their families in the warm climate. This year Island Queen Cruises is offering a traditional Christmas Day Dinner Cruise for families looking to relax and enjoy the holidays in comfort. Enjoy more quality time with loved ones by letting the friendly and professional staff handle the hassle of preparing a Christmas dinner – making the holidays that much more special.


The Christmas Day Dinner Cruise in will include a traditional Christmas Day dinner. The buffet menu includes a salad station, fresh turkey carving station, mashed potatoes and gravy station, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. This cruise is family style seating with communal round tables with rotating seating (no assigned seating) creating a fun atmosphere.

The Biscayne Lady

Reservations are required and seats are limited so reserve now! The Biscayne Lady will begin boarding at 4:30pm and cruise from 5:30pm-7:30pm. The route includes portions of Millionaire’s Row and the Downtown Miami skyline.


The Biscayne Lady is a special yacht, perfectly suited to accommodate a gathering for Christmas Day. She is spacious yet elegant. She features three grand decks: the main dining deck, lounge deck and the sky deck. The yacht also features a large and spacious bow, second floor stern and both starboard-side and port-side walkways.


Need a drink? The Biscayne Lady will feature three full bars to grab a beverage, along with cocktail service throughout the yacht.


This Christmas, come enjoy a dinner cruise with the entire family and allow Island Queen to do the preparations!


Adults: $85
Children: $35

New Year's Eve Party Cruise Miami

Three... Two.. One. Happy New Year!


Welcome 2012 and celebrate in style aboard one of Island Queen's luxury yachts, the Biscayne Lady. The Biscayne Lady is one of Miami's newest party yachts. No other New Year's Eve celebration will be as memorable as cruising Miami on an unbelievable yacht and seeing the fireworks show from the water, all while enjoying unlimited food and drinks.


The special, all-inclusive, New Year's Eve cruise will include Premium bar and unlimited food including salad bar station, pasta station, meat carving station, dessert station. 


The Biscayne Lady yacht will begin boarding at 9:30pm to 10:30pm, and depart at 10:30pm. She will be cruising from 10:30pm until 1:30am. There will be a professional DJ onboard playing all the latest dance music. Please arrive at the Biscayne Lady between 9:30pm and 10:30pm to check-in. There will be a table in front of the boat and for checking-in.


A modern yacht, the Biscayne Lady, features three amazing decks, three full bars, and two dance floors.


Get tickets today because space is limited! Please contact 305-379-5119, Ext 201 to make reservations for this spectacular New Year's Eve Cruise in Miami on the Biscayne Lady.


Adults: $169
Children: (16 and under) $59

Dinner Cruises Miami

Island Queen Cruises offers special dinner cruises in Miami during the holidays. This year nightly dinner cruises are scheduled from December 23, 29 & 30. (More dates to be announced! Please check the website for additional dates.)


Get ready for a magical setting enhanced by amazing city sights and bay lights. Cruise along Biscayne Bay and enjoy superb cuisine in a setting of elegant service and modern design, accompanied by the most exceptional views of Miami.

The Venetian Lady

This Miami Dinner Cruise is aboard the Venetian Lady, a 140-passenger luxury yacht. She is the perfect place for this special dinner and dancing cruise. Quite frankly, this dinner cruise has the best food, service and setting in all of Miami. You will not find a better experience for the price!


The special, all inclusive dinner cruise includes a cheese display, fruit platter, two butler passed hors d'oeuvres, fresh caesar salad, grilled chicken breast with toasted coconut and served with a cilantro/mango/papaya salsa, prime rib of beef - hand carved slow-roasted prime rib of beef with a rosemary horseradish glaze, rice pilaf, grilled veggies and a full open bar.


The Venetian Lady yacht will board from 6:30pm to 7:30pm and will depart at 7:30pm. She will be cruising from 7:30pm to 9:30pm. There will be a professional DJ onboard playing all the latest dance music. The Venetian Lady, features three amazing decks, two full bars and two dance floors.


Get tickets today because space is limited! Please contact 305-379-5119, Ext. 201 to make reservations for this spectacular dinner cruises miami on the Venetian Lady.


Adults: $75
Children: $35


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Egg & Dart Launches Weeknight Happy Hour with Cocktail & Appetizer Specials Monday-Friday, 5pm-8pm

From left, Chef de Cuisine Sylvestros Sotairidis and co-owner Costa Grillas.
(Photo by billwisserphoto.com)

Egg & Dart, the new chic Greek restaurant and bar in the heart of the Miami Design District, is introducing a weeknight Happy Hour celebration showcasing innovative drink creations, as well as cocktail and appetizer specials.  Happy Hour takes place Monday through Friday, 5pm-8pm.

Enjoy Happy Hour at Egg & Dart
(Photo by billwisserphoto.com)

Signature cocktails are affordably priced at $7, and include innovative libations such as:

The Greek Salad: Smooth Ambler gin, cucumbers, Kalamata olives, lime, pepperoncini, tomato water, feta stuffed olive garnish;

Egg & Dart Fizz: Ridge Gin, egg white, lemon, powdered  sugar, sweet cream, Hum botanical spirit; and

The Mojitaki: Cane & Abe Freshwater rum, mint, fresh lime, sugar, Eastside Ouzo, lime garnish


In addition, Egg & Dart offers $5 specialty champagne cocktails and $5 Greek wine by the glass.  Guests can pair cocktails with an array of mezze (Greek appetizers), all 50% off, including bacalao croquettes, crispy cheese pie, a variety of dips and more.

Open since August 2011, Egg & Dart is the Miami Design District’s newest chic Greek dining destination, named after the iconic decorative moulding found on much of Greece’s architecture. The menu honors the breadth of traditional Greek cuisine by bringing fresh, wholesome cooking from all regions of Greece and features sumptuous mezze (small plates), staples like taramosalata and hummus, and impeccably grilled meats, seafood and whole fish.

Egg & Dart is located at 4029 N. Miami Avenue in the Miami Design District. Open for dinner nightly, Sunday-Thursday, 5pm-11pm; Friday-Saturday, 5pm-midnight. For more information please call 786-431-1022 or visit the website egganddartmiami.com and Facebook page.

Cheese platter (Photo by billwisserphoto.com)

Horiatiki salad (Photo by billwisserphoto.com)

Chocolatina (Photo by billwisserphoto.com)

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5 Napkin Burger Launches Twice Daily Happy Hour Specials

The famed 5 Napkin Burger: 10 oz. fresh ground chuck, gruyere cheese, caramelized onions and rosemary aioli on a soft white roll

The 5 Napkin Burger restaurant, which opened on Lincoln Road in June and has been packed for lunch and dinner ever since, is now offering Happy Hour specials at its welcoming bar. Monday through Fridays, from 4pm-7pm, and then again from 10pm-close, bar habitués can enjoy food and drink specials including $4 drafts and $2 sliders featuring a choice of the famed 5 Napkin Burger, Veggie and Turkey burgers. Also on offer, 50 cent chicken wings (minimum order of four), $2 pork taquitos and $2 hand rolls with a choice of spicy tuna and cucumber or spicy salmon and avocado.

Inside 5 Napkin Burger

Since it debuted in 2008 in New York City, 5 Napkin Burger quickly became legendary as the only upscale restaurant devoted to the art of the hamburger. While the burgers may be the headliners, the diverse menu of expertly prepared American classics include sushi maki rolls, matzo ball soup, steak frites and fish & chips. The 5 Napkin beverage programs showcases a global selection of 50 wines and 80 beers, 10 signature cocktails, 40 bourbons and a host of decadent milk shakes and floats.

Miami Beach marks the fifth location for the restaurant, with three in New York and one recently opened in Boston. An Atlanta restaurant is scheduled to open later this month. Located at 455 Lincoln Road on Miami Beach, in addition to Happy Hour,  the restaurant is open for lunch and dinner daily and weekend brunch. Reservations are available by calling 305-538-2277 or at opentable.com.

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Joey's Italian Café in Wynwood Launches Weekly Live Music Series

Joey’s Italian Café, a casual, elegant dining destination in Wynwood.

The affordable contemporary Italian café that helped to make Wynwood a dining and entertainment destination, Joey’s Italian Café, has added a weekly live music series on Thursdays. The restaurant aims to create a relaxed, loungey night in Wynwood where folks can come enjoy the sounds of local musicians while kicking back with a glass of wine and one of Joey’s authentic rustic dishes or famous pizzas. The restaurant also has a new happy hour each Thursday and Friday, from 6pm-7pm, where guests can enjoy half-off signature cocktails and complimentary antipasti at the bar.

Artists perform from 8pm-11pm on Thursdays. The line-up is impromptu; recent musical performers have included local luminaries Jennifer Wagoner, Taboca, Lina Gaudezzi and others. Line-up changes weekly.

Live entertainment takes place on the patio at Joey’s Italian Café, located at 2506 N.W. 2 Avenue in Wynwood every Thursday. For more information call 305-438-0488 or visit www.joeyswynwood.com. No cover or minimum. Valet parking is available for $5.

Established in December 2008, Joey’s Italian Café was the first restaurant to open in Wynwood since the area began its transformation into a hip Arts District, nearly a decade ago–and it created an immediate buzz. Food & Wine magazine cited Joey’s innovative thin-crusted pizza as one of the top pizzas in the U.S., local food critics raved and national coverage appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe, among many others.

The affordable, chic restaurant is owned by Joey Goldman of Goldman Properties, which rejuvenates urban areas and transforms them into thriving global destinations. Joey’s serves Wynwood’s burgeoning arts community with a fine-tuned menu of healthy, classic dishes from Venice and other culturally rich Italian regions.

The restaurant’s décor is casual and elegant, encompassing 75 seats inside and on the private al fresco garden terrace that has become a favorite among artsy locals and food and wine enthusiasts from all over the world. Joey’s serves lunch and dinner Monday-Saturday.

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