Fresh from the garden. Fresh and local is best, and many chef driven restaurants, and cocktail focused bars are reflecting this mantra as they standardize their ingredients and offerings sourced from local farms. A handful of South Florida restaurants and bars are taking it a step further, further defining garden-to-table with their own on-site gardens. While some are restricted to propagating herb gardens due to space restrictions others have literally created their own agrarian society. What's excting about these chef gardens is the passion that drives the creativity to utilize even the most urban of areas and make it green. When in South Florida, eat and drink local with the locals.
Palm Beach and Indian River County
Osceola Bistro, Vero Beach - herb garden
Coolinary Cafe, Palm Beach Gardens has an offsite herb and vegetable garden in nearby Abacoa
The Breakers, Palm Beach has a 2,000 square foot herb and vegetable garden
Bistro Ten Zero One, West Palm Beach - herb garden
DIG, Delray Beach - herb garden
Farmers Table, Boca Raton - herb garden
Broward County
Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Fort Lauderdale - herb garden
Sublime, Fort Lauderdale - vegetable and herb garden
Miami-Dade County
The Dome in Coral Gables has partnered with Coral Gables High School Culinary Arts Progaram on the use of an organic vegetable and herb garden. Peppers, eggplant, zucchini and cucumbers are grown in a joint venture with Ready-To-Grow Gardens.
The Federal Drink & Provisions, Miami herb garden
Eating House, Coral Gables micro greens and herbs
Mina’s Mediterraneo, Miami - herb garden
Essensia, Miami Beach - vegetable and herb garden
Edge Steak & Bar, Miami - herb garden
Mandolin Aegean Bistro, Miami - vegetables and fruits
Batch Gastropub Miami on-site agroponic system for growing herbs, vegetables and spices
Turnberry Isle, Aventura - vegetable and herb garden
And taking it one step further is the "garden to glass" concept with fresh herbs and spices being grown on premise. Cocktails are shaken', stirred, mixed; whirled, twirled and spun around with garden fresh ingredients at the Broken Shaker, Miami Beach.
And Blackbird Ordinary, Miami is doing the not-so-ordinary cocktialing with ingredients from it vertical garden wall which grows mint, cilantro, basil, strawberries and miracle fruit.
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