Quality Meats Miami Beach
1501 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-340-3333, QualityMeatsMiami.com
The former Bancroft Hotel has been resurrected as second home to a 9-year-old Manhattan steakhouse based on a butcher shop.
“Not only is Miami primed to become an international gateway, but the developing food scene here is tremendous,” says co-owner Michael Stillman, whose family opened Smith & Wollensky. “We want to offer our guests options they are not seeing everywhere.”
How about corn creme brulee ($12) and house-cured bacon with jalapeno jelly and peanut butter ($15)? Other house-made charcuterie, such as duck bacon and cured — not cooked — foie gras torchon, appear on cheese platters ($19, $29).
Besides curing, some items are smoked or aged in-house, such as tomahawk steak ($48). Dishes for two include suckling pig confit ($39 per person). Seafood features everything-crusted branzino with smoked cream cheese ($29).
Dinner is served nightly amid classic Art Deco architecture with a meat-hook chandelier and patterned terrazzo floor, plus a wraparound patio.
“It’s all in the details, from the leather buckle strapped seats to the hotel check-in desk turned butcher counter,” Stillman says
