Sneak Peek :: Asia de Cuba Inside the Mondrian South Beach
July 4, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized
A rep for the Mondrian South Beach hotel just sent over this restaurant of the planned Asia de Cuba restaurant (run by China Grill Management) which will open inside the hotel in December 2008. Here’s the official restaurant and menu description.
Asia de Cuba at Mondrian South Beach blends a vibrant, social atmosphere conceived by Marcel Wanders with innovative menus, incorporating the best of Asian and Latin cuisines and producing intense flavors distinctly united.
The restaurant delivers imaginatively prepared signature dishes such as Calamari Salad “Asia de Cuba,” with chayote, hearts of palm, banana, cashews, chicory and radicchio in a sesame orange dressing; Tunapica, a picadillo style tuna tartare with Spanish olives, black currants, almonds and coconut in a soy-lime vinaigrette; Palomillo of Marinated Lamb, Miso-Cured Alaskan Butterfish accompanied by a tempura-battered shisito pepper, and Lobster “Mai-Tai, with rhum, coconut, red curry and wok crispy boniato.
Mmmm…our stomach just growled. This will be the sixth Asia de Cuba. There are other locations at the Morgans Hotel in New York and the Mondrians in LA and Scottsdale as well as the Clift in San Fran and St. Martin’s Lane in London.
The hotel is set to open sometime in December 2008 and while we had heard a rumor that the hotel would be taking reservations starting November 17th, we aren’t going to hold our breath.