What New York takeover? This Miami-based group opens the first of five new restaurants
Not to be outdone by bullish New York restaurant groups, the team behind one of South Beach’s most popular Mediterranean restaurants, Byblos, is planning five new restaurants in Miami-Dade County.
INK Entertainment (based in Miami and Montreal) will open the first of those, the Mediterranean-inspired Meet Dalia, Aug. 12 inside the renovated art deco hotel at 640 Ocean Drive. The hotel will house two other restaurants slated to open later this year.
Meet Dalia feels like a spiritual cousin to Byblos. The proposed menu’s raw bar promises a selection of oysters, shrimp, lobster and stone crab individually or in a seafood tower. The mezze section features babaganoush, kale tabbouleh, falafel fritters and octopus. A selection of flatbreads leads into classic entrees like flown-in branzino, short rib moussaka, and whole octopus.
The hotel’s other two restaurants will include Meet Mia, set to open in September with a menu focused on northern Italian cuisine, and a to-be-name (perhaps another “meeting” is planned?) raw bar.
Part of the group’s eight-month expansion will include a modern Lebanese restaurant and rooftop bar, Amal, near the Coconut Grove playhouse at 3480 Main Highway. The menu will represent the cuisine of INK Entertainment founder Charles Khabouth’s hometown of Beirut. The details of a fifth restaurant are limited to its location in the Design District.
Meet Dalia
Address: 640 Ocean Dr., South Beach
More info: meetdaliamiami.com
This story was originally published August 11, 2021 at 11:16 AM.
