Our final destination brought us to South Beach Miami. The Miami Beach marina is just a few blocks from Ocean Drive and the famous Art Deco hotel and restaurant district containing over 900 restored buildings from this period. Normally Ocean is open to traffic but there was a two day street fair with artists booth lining the beach promenade.
Choosing a restaurant from the dozens of restaurants with patios along Ocean was a difficult decision but we settled on a Cuban Restaurant, Lario’s on the Beach, figuring we should sample some of the cuisine for which South Beach is famous. We didn’t know at the time but later learned the restaurant was owned by Gloria Estefan and her husband, one of the early investors in the South Beach revival. We each tried the Cuban Sampler plate which was excellent and a great way to start our time in Miami.
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