Beer, Wine & Spirits in Miami Beach

LUX Pizza might be in Miami, but the pizza chefs follow the lead of artisan Italian pizza makers. That means all pizzas come in one size, available for lunch or diner. Housemade tomato sauce and fresh mozzarella are the beginnings of most of the specialty pies here, which include a traditional margherita or prosciutto as well as some inventive creations. Along with pizzas, the eatery offers paninis, calzones, stromboli, salads, and Nutella-inspired homemade desserts.

Fernanda's International Market, a treasure trove of rare ingredients and made-to-order gourmet sandwiches, bakes robust breads and fine pastries. Among a troop of hearty sandwiches, the Martorano ($8.99) stands out for its spicy temper and muscular blend of sopressata and cappacola meats. The Churchill ($8.99) loads its taste gun with Branston pickle relish and fights hunger pangs on ham-coated beaches, cheddar cheese fields, and hot mustard streets. Fernanda's also sells prepared food by the pound and hard-to-find international groceries like Thai lemon grass.

Montreal native Tony Bianco teamed up with executive chef Enzo Addario to create Hot Tomatoe, a traditional Italian bistro boasting a menu that brims with house-made, cooked-to-order pastas, flavorful meat dishes, and full- and light-bodied Italian wines. Their regional cuisine typically integrates up to seven essential ingredients—oil, garlic, basil, tomatoes, pasta, and olives—from which Snow White’s seven dwarves drew their names. In addition, the staff goes shopping for fresh ingredients three to four days a week to supplement both seasonal compositions and year-round dishes, which include veal parmigiana, filet mignon, and penne norma.

Property Location With a stay at Hilton Bentley Miami/South Beach in Miami Beach (South Beach), you'll be minutes from Jewish Museum of Florida and South Pointe Park. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Miami Beach Marina and Fifth and Alton Shopping Center. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 109 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms have makeup/shaving mirrors and hair dryers. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and desks, as well as multi-line phones with voice mail. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages and body treatments. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, including an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a sauna. Additional features include wireless Internet access (surcharge), a concierge desk, and a hair salon. Dining Grab a bite at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar. Breakfast is available for a fee. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and business services. Planning an event in Miami Beach? This hotel has 1500 square feet (139 square meters) of space consisting of conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and a ballroom. Parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.

The son of Cuban immigrants, James Beard Award–winning Chef Douglas Rodriguez crafted a menu that blurs the line between Latin American comfort food and American fine dining. Diversely delicious tapas selections, such as as ham croquetas ($8), pulpo a la gallega (seared octopus, $13), and plantain-encrusted mahi mahi ($12), can fill even the most discerning appetite bucket to the brim. Sup on the savory crispy-skin Cuban pork ($26) or the Fire and Ice ceviche ($15), which combines salmon, lemon juice, chives, jalapenos, and dill over yogurt and cucumber granita to create a mind-bending flavor duality capable of melting the taster into a puddle of biodegradable paper-mâché. The duck and foie gras cassabe flatbread ($17) is like your favorite Italian pizza married a beautiful duck and moved to Cuba.

####Lucali’s Most pizza makers launch their careers out of a love of the pie, not a love of candy. Consider Lucali’s owner Mark Iacono an exception. As a child, the Carroll Gardens native would visit Louie’s Candy Shop with his father, browsing the sweets and indulging in egg creams from the soda fountain. When the candy shop closed its doors for good, Mark moved in with a plan to preserve the neighborhood space but little idea of how he would go about it. A visit to another pizzeria evoked memories of his grandmother laboring over her saucepot and, suddenly, the idea rose like a mound of dough on the sun: pizza. Two years later, Iacono was the one laboring in the kitchen, simmering his San Marzano tomato sauce for five hours–-according to his grandmother's recipe––before ladling it onto thin crusts, topping it with a mix of cheeses that includes bufala mozarrella, and popping the whole thing into a wood-fired oven he built himself. The result is a pie that [_Time Out New York¬_](www.timeout.com/newyork/the-feed-blog/gqs-richman-rips-www.-a-new-one-anoints-brooklyns-lucali) calls, "a thing of beauty" and that earned second place on [_GQ's_](http://www.gq.com/food-travel/alan-richman/200905/pizza-american-pie-25-best?currentPage=3) list of the "25 Best Pizzas You'll Ever Eat". To ensure quality, Iacono keeps things simple by only serving pizzas and calzones, and limiting the topping list to a mere eight choices, among them pepperoni and fresh snipped basil. The simplicity allows him to concentrate on making his pizzas better and better, telling [_The New York Times¬_](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/dining/reviews/29unde.html) that despite the long lines of customers, he's never satisfied with his pies. The _Times_' verdict? "He could just relax".