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Author: Gretchen Schmidt
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NIGHT+DAY MIAMI
Overflowing with beautiful bodies, warm beaches, icy
cocktails, and a buzzing A-list scene, today’s Miami is one of the sexiest, steamiest cities in America.
September Love Letter
Make September a month of unexpected cultural delights. The first Friday of the month is Gables Gallery Night, when free buses shuttle visitors to and from Coral Gables’ many local galleries, stopping for free wine and edibles along the way (artcircuits.com). End the day at Norman’s 180, Norman Van Aken’s farm-to-table eatery (normans180.com).
On the second Saturday of September, try the Design District/Wynwood Gallery Walk (artcircuits.com), and explore art galleries, shops, and some of the area’s top restaurants, including Michael’s Genuine (michaelsgenuine.com), Sra. Martinez (sramartinez.com), and Q American, Jonathan Eismann’s barbeque and seafood spot (qamericanbarbeque.com).
And if you’re in town on the 24th, head to Little Havana’s Viernes Culturales for its smoking hot evening street fair ( viernesculturales.org). Wherever you end up, make it a point to check the Miami Spice restaurant promotion website ( ilovemiamispice.com). With a record number of participants this year, there’s a good chance you’ll find a three-course meal for $35.
Gretchen Schmidt
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MIAMI (2010):
Lee Brian Schrager (Restaurateur)
Even before South Beach exploded as a hot, hip, global destination, Lee Brian Schrager was there. He opened the bar Torpedo in 1988, followed by the health food restaurant Chow, and next teamed up with Mickey Rourke to open the dinner club Spot. But it was his work shaping the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival that has distinguished his career, transforming a stretch of sandy beach on the Atlantic into a star-studded, high-energy destination event for food and wine lovers everywhere.
Now entering its tenth year, the annual festival began as a one-day event at Florida International University, showcasing wines and dishes from local chefs. Schrager, then director of Special Events and Media Relations at Southern Wine & Spirits of America, renamed the event and relocated it to South Beach, adding a series of dinners, seminars, a Grand Tasting, and a live auction. By 2006, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival was one of the best-known festivals of its type in the country, and in 2007, Food Network became its title sponsor. In 2010, more than 50,000 wine and food lovers attended the four-day festival, which raised $2.2 million for FIU’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.
The 2011 Festival will celebrate the release of the official Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival cookbook, written by Schrager with Julie Mautner, and featuring a foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Schrager’s name is also on the Lee Brian Schrager Excellence in Leadership Award at the FIU School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, a scholarship awarded to three students who demonstrate outstanding leadership.
Through the festival, Schrager has not only heightened awareness of greater Miami as a culinary destination to outsiders, but also raised the bar for local chefs and restaurateurs, inspiring them to reach new heights.
Check out our choice for the world’s foremost
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