South Beach Dinner #2: Medi

Our goal for our second night on South Beach was to just stroll up and down Ocean Drive and see what was available. We saw a lot of possibilities but finally settled on Medi.

As I described in my opening post about our South Beach vacation, on Sunday, Ocean Drive was closed off and the restaurants expanded into the middle of the street. Medi is the sidewalk café in front of the Strand Ocean Drive.

I also described how the cafés and restaurants have their hosts out on the sidewalk trying to induce customers to come in. We picked Medi because the menu looked good, the music playing in the background was a nice mix of rock (not techno), and they offered us a two-for-one drink special.

Well, my martini was $14 and Linda’s Miami Vice cocktail was $18. We each got two of them, but you can make your own judgment about whether it was really a half-price deal.

But if the drinks were over-priced, they still were good, and the food was very good.

I had a Cuban steak. (It wasn’t called that on the menu, but the server confirmed that’s what it was.) It was a very nice piece of flank steak topped with a chimichurri sauce. It was served with black beans and rice.

Linda had seafood ravioli. The fresh pasta ravioli were very flavorful and it was served with a rich cream sauce.

The food was very good, and the street-side table was great for watching the endless parade of revelers on Ocean Drive.