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Natural Gourmet Dining Essensia The Pure Essence of Taste

Our new culinary concept to Miami Beach, Essensia restaurant and lounge embodies the simplicity and elegance of natural gourmet dining at The Palms Hotel & Spa.  Under the direction of our new Executive Chef Frank Jeannetti, Essensia features worldly fare in a vibrant and sophisticated style. With an established career launching some of South Florida’s most successful dining establishments and a long track record creating exceptional green and organic dishes, Jeannetti’s new menus at Essensia and throughout the hotel’s food and beverage outlets emphasize flavor and simplicity by blending local, seasonal, and organic ingredients from local purveyors to create what has been coined as “the pure essence of taste”. 






Jeannetti’s Indulgent Journeys: Culinary Creations From Farm to Table

These four-course specialty menus, available exclusively on Fridays and Saturdays, are an ode to the restaurant’s dedication to utilizing local, organic, sustainable and seasonal ingredients, whenever possible. Executive Chef Frank Jeannetti, after consulting with his local, specialty sources will develop a new “out-of-the-box” prix-fixe menu to be available for the next two weekends.  Items presented in these four-course menus are not on the restaurant’s regular menus, making them a real treat for Jeannetti to experiment and guests to enjoy.

To see the menu offered March 12 & 13, click here

$65++ per person
$25++ Wine Upgrade
(Upgrade includes 2 glasses of fine wine carefully paired with each week’s menu. Wines will come from the restaurant’s 100% sustainable, organic and biodynamic wine list, and are not typically available by the glass.) 

Ten percent of all revenue from Jeannetti’s Journeys will go to the Common Threads charity in Miami.  Common Threads is a national not-for-profit after-school program that teaches low-income children ages 8-12, to cook wholesome and affordable meals because they believe that through hands-on cooking classes they can help prevent childhood obesity and reverse the trend of generations of non-cookers, while celebrating our cultural differences and the things people all over the world have in common.  For more information, please visit www.commonthreads.org.


For reservations, please call 305.908.5458 or visit www.essensiarestaurant.com.

Essensia features a 65-seat indoor dining room plus al fresco seating for another 120 under The Palms' covered terrace and poolside deck. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The 2009-2010 Winter Dinner Menu highlights include:
Essensia Restaurant Miami Beach

Essensia Vital Salad
Paradise Farms organic baby greens, heirloom tomatoes, yellow  peashoot sprouts, black mission figs, mandarin orange segments, toasted almonds,  organic extra virgin olive oil and aged balsamic syrup.
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Grilled Sweet Chili Glazed Lollipop Pork Chop
With Boniato puree and Granny Smith apple-golden raisin relish.
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Coconut Tapioca Soup
With mango sorbet and coconut twigs

100% Sustainable, Organic & Biodynamic Wines

Complementing the new menus is Essensia’s exclusive wine list, committed to being completely sustainable, organic, or biodynamic and an innovative Indulgence bar menu with interactive wine voyages where guests can experience three 2oz. pours that have something in common such as variety, region, vintage or maker and signature cocktails made from fresh ingredients and organic spirits. 


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Sunday Brunch at Essensia

11.30 am to 3.00pm
$39.00++ per person 
$19.00++ Kids 12 and under
Includes one complimentary glass of Lamarca Prosecco or a Mimosa per person

Featuring Executive Chef Frank Jeannetti's beautifully presented selection of traditional brunch specialties, including hot and cold breakfast items, a salad station and unique highlights such as an outdoor grill, risotto & pasta station and Pastry Chef Gail Goetsch’s delectable creations.

Indoor and outdoor seating is available. Valet parking is discounted to $9 for brunch patrons. For Sunday Brunch reservations, please call 305.908.5458 or email essensia@thepalmshotel.com

Hours of Operation


Breakfast
Daily 6:30am to 11:00am
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Dinner
Sunday - Thursday 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Friday & Saturday 6:00pm to 11:00pm
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Lunch
Daily from 11:00am to 3:00pm
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Sunday Brunch
Sundays 11.30 am to 3.00pm
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