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PanamaJon's Profile

3 days in Miami and Ft Lauderdale

So glad to see I am not the only one who feels this way. The place is good, but great? Hardly.

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For good dependable Italian fare and fun people watching, Carpaccio on the ground floor of Bal Harbor Shops is it. La Goulue also gets good reviews, but I'm not a fan of their food.

For romantic ambience I've gone to 1Bleu at the Regent Hotel, but I haven't eaten enough of the food there to pass judgement. The restaurant is on the northern tip of Bal Harbor overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, so it's kind of hard to beat that scenery, though since you are facing east you obviously won't experience the sun-set, and if you go too late you won't see anything.

For breakfast or brunch go upstairs to Segafredo Zanetti on the second floor of the Bal Harbor Shops, they opened recently and have fun choices.