WATERFRONT DINING AT PARAISO BAY
Amara resides two blocks east of Biscayne Boulevard off 31st Street, offering the public unimpeded access to its entrance with street and valet parking. The 4,500 square foot indoor-outdoor space designed by Meyer Davis Studio celebrates the natural beauty of its surroundings incorporating the tropical waterfront environment. The restaurant includes main dining room and bar seating for 150 with floor to ceiling windows offering dramatic Biscayne Bay views, as well as deck seating for 70 on the water. The approach is warm and inviting, drawing the outside in with white-washed paneling, natural woods, and graphic concrete tiles. Detailing is open, honest, and relaxed with exposed trusses and an open double-height steel stair. Set in the Paraiso District, a new neighborhood rising on seven city blocks in East Edgewater, Miami, our new enclave will grow to comprise The Related Group’s four new residential towers—Gran Paraiso, One Paraiso, Paraiso Bay, and Paraiso Bayviews — as well as designs by Arquitectonica, a private beach club on the second floor of our bayside restaurant, retail shops on 31st Street, three acres of parks and green spaces, and a waterfront art park connecting to the Biscayne Line.
Inspired by its idyllic bayside setting, Amara at Paraiso brings together bold Latin American flavors, coastal ingredients, and South Florida’s diversity of food culture to create the quintessential Miami waterfront restaurant from environment to cuisine and vibe. Experience the dynamic energy, local ingredients, and natural beauty of Biscayne Bay that defines what living in Miami is all about.
This is clean, balanced food prepared wholesome–building flavor with great ingredients and simple cooking techniques centered around the flame. Brightened by freshly picked herbs and boldly-flavored sauces, the menu focuses on nuts, grains, vegetables, sprouts, and roasted and spit-fired meats and fish.
QUENCH YOUR THIRST AT AMARA’S BAR & BEACH
The weekday Happy Hour and Sunday Beach Party of your dreams. Both right in our backyard. Savor the delicious energy of our lively cocktail program and wine list celebrating the Americas on the waterfront at Amara. From 5:30-7:30pm Monday through Friday enjoy the best restaurant view in Miami for a little bit longer with Assistant GM Maria Pottage’s 4 new $10 classic cocktails with a tropical twist, half price oysters and snacks from Chef Michael Paley, $4 Cusqueña premium Peruvian lager beer and half price wines by the glass. Stand outs include our poppable, craveable specialty — Yuca Cheese Puffs, rotating select oysters and more.
Sundays from 4-10PM sit back and relax as we fire up the Lynx Grill for a special menu of sundown bites and cocktails at the Beach Club upstairs bar and terrace.
MEET EXECUTIVE CHEF MICHAEL PALEY
With a nostalgic return to Florida and intrigued by Miami’s evolving culinary scene, Paley’s approach to Latin American cooking is underpinned by bold flavors of traditional dishes and decidedly bright–a showcase for fresh ingredients.
The New Jersey native attended culinary school in Florida after graduating from university, inspired by the intersection of creativity and critical thinking unique to a career in restaurants. Having cooked in kitchens from Kentucky to Texas, Paley draws from where his surroundings to create a sense of place you can taste in his menus. The Chef has garnered praise from both Food & Wine Magazine for artisan pizza and Southern-inspired cuisine and Bon Appetit’s 50 Best New Restaurants list for his embrace of regionally-sourced products with a custom-built, wood-burning fireplace.
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