Hugh Westbrook and wife Carole Shields Westbrook, co-chairmen of Merrill-Stevens shipyard, just listed their bayfront compound at 158 S. Prospect Dr. in Coral Gables -- for $23.5 million.

Details: five-bedroom main house with 22-seat theater; three guest houses; boat house; giant air-conditioned garage that can hold up to 20 cars, plus pool and tennis court. The parcel of nearly three acres includes a house at 140 S. Prospect and abuts Yankee slugger Alex ``A-Rod'' Rodriguez's estate on East Sunrise Avenue.

The Westbrooks have another property two houses away -- a six-bedroom waterfront home on Pullen Avenue.

Westbrook, 64, a retired United Methodist minister and hospice pioneer, co-founded VITAS Healthcare Corp. in '76. He and Carole, 61, sold their majority interest in VITAS in February '04 in a deal valued at $406 million, and 10 months later purchased Merrill-Stevens.

Jorge Uribe of One Sotheby's International Realty, who scored the listing, posted photos of the compound at 158sprospect.com.

HOT STOVE

Restaurateur and chef Emilio DiCarlo, who owned Café Ragazzi in Surfside for 14-plus years before selling last November to singer Ricardo Montaner and family, just opened Emilio's Casa Toscana at 1569 Sunset Dr. in Coral Gables, near South Miami.

``I come from three generations of chefs,'' says DiCarlo, 62, a native of Buenos Aires. Managing the 50-seater are DiCarlo's son, Beto, 38; and Manuel ``Manny'' Vilela Rivas, 63, formerly of Caffe Vialetto and Osteria degli Amici. Lunch is served weekdays, and dinner seven nights. DiCarlo plans to open a cafe next door with breakfast fare and Italian deli takeout.

By the way, Montaner and wife Marlene own a six-bedroom home on the water on Pinetree Drive in Miami Beach.

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