Where to Stay and Dine in Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH
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Where to Stay and Dine
You'll have plenty of choices in where to stay and dine in Miami Beach that exhibit style, sensuality and South Florida cool. If you're not looking for glamour, you can still find understated gems, especially if you're willing to dig a little.
© Delano Hotel Miami
The Delano (1685 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-672-2000) no longer dominates SoBe (it's so '90s), but its sky-high lobby, blizzard-white guest rooms and swimming pool "spa"—with underwater music and separate areas dedicated to floating and meditating—still excite the senses. The Hotel (801 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-531-2222) manages to deliver a vintage chic vibe while never feeling overhyped, or over the top. Designer Todd Oldham adds just the right amount of color and whimsy to each of the hotel's 53 rooms (although the swimming pool is small). For something newer, stay at Fontainebleau (4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-538-2000), an imposing Miami Beach classic that'll unveil a billion-dollar facelift in November 2008. Its 1,500 guest rooms will be outfitted with plasma TVs and iMacs, and the hotel will have four upscale restaurants (two of which boast James Beard Award-winning chefs) and a ginormous 40,000-square-foot spa.
© Delano Hotel Miami
Lincoln Road is gastro-ground zero, but there are as many misses as there are hits. Spris (721 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-673-2020) skips the hype and opts instead for straight-up Northern-Italian-style thin-crust pizzas. Order some of the cheesy goodness and top it off with espresso-soaked tiramisu. The queues may always be long at Joe's Stone Crab (11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-0365), a tourist-friendly seafood joint that is older than those chicks on the Golden Girls, but it serves the best stick-to-your-ribs stone crab legs on the island. You can pick up dinner to go and enjoy it on the nearby, quieter stretch of beach on the island's south end. Or join the locals in SoBe and don a pair of designer sweats and oversized shades and stumble in for omelettes and French toast at Front Porch Café (1418 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, 305-531-8000), a genuinely low-key hangover hangout inside the Penguin Hotel with the most delicious breakfast in town. It's the best way to start your day in SoBe before hitting the beach.
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