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The Restaurant at The Setai

The Setai
2001 Collins Ave. (20th St.) Send to Phone
Miami BeachFL 33139
305-520-6000 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Luxury East-West (mostly Chinese-Thai-Indian-inspired) dining that’s worth every yuan-baht-rupee. The Restaurant at The Setai is one of our | Top 10 Miami/South Florida FoodRating Restaurants | Top 10 Miami/South Florida Romantic Restaurants | Top 10 Miami/South Florida WineList Restaurants | Top 10 Miami/South Florida Special Occasion Restaurants | Top 10 Miami/South Florida Brunch Restaurants |

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Breakfast & Lunch Mon.-Sat., Dinner nightly, Brunch Sun.

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Dining room at The Restaurant at The Setai, Miami Beach, FLSince opening in 2005, The Restaurant (the premier eatery at The Setai, which has three other dining spaces: The Grill, The Courtyard, and The Pool & Beach Bar) has had the reputation of being one of Miami’s most expensive dining experiences. Prices remain high though no higher than those at many upscale restaurants in town. However, executive chef Jonathan Wright (whose previous posts include New Orleans’ Windsor Court, Raffles in Singapore, and Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons) and chef de cuisine Arnold Kwok have elevated a luxe-level dining experience into a pricelessly transcendent one. While the cuisine is East-West at all three meals, percentages change from mostly Western at breakfast (with a few Asian selections) to about 50-50 at lunch (chicken with avocado and bacon, or chicken curry with Thai eggplant) to a mostly Asian-inspired dinner menu meant to strongly encourage interaction between diners and chefs at The Restaurant’s scattered Chinese, Thai and Indian open kitchens. Dishes include fried grouper; lobster bisque accented with coconut, kaffir lime and Thai basil; wok-fried local stone crab claws with pepper and chili; and dim sum that are so well-flavored in themselves that their accompanying dipping sauces are niceties, not necessities. Dim sum are also a highlight of the lavish Sunday buffet brunch. The encyclopedia-size wine list is equally exciting, with both rare and famous selections---and a fun philosophy, according to maître d’ Patrick Sheehan, that “every bottle tells a story.”

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