Old-Money Miami & Unworldly Cooking

Rating: 6/5
Cuisine: Continental meets European
Price: Starters 30-50 USD, Mains 40-150+ USD
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Thomas Keller turned his 3 Michelin-star power onto classic continental Americana and didn’t miss. Plates showcase ingredients with surgical precision. A ceviche with sea-bass, sweet potato and coriander. How special can that be? Prepare to be blown of your socks. It is unworldly.

The menu consists of both Continental dishes: Devilled eggs, or Jumbo lumb crab-cake with a tabasco mayonnaise, and European classics: Pasta pomodoro, or Pan fried Ora King salmon, with braised fennel and beurre blanc. The flavours of which remain mind-boggling to this day..

Service is choreographed to the inch, it's an experience. It is hospitality champions league. Plates glide in, crumbs vanish. It’s polished, professional, not personal. Don't expect warmth unless you’re a known name. The wine list reads like a flex: Napa cults, Bordeaux heavyweights, Burgundy if you ask nicely.

Where You’re Sitting? Main Room: Grand, cinematic, serious. Banyan Room: Lighter, airier, feels like Florida. Bar: Velvet, jazz, classic cocktails, lots of perfume.

Dinner for two will climb toward $600 with wine. But if you came to taste Keller in the Four Seasons in Miami, what the.. did you expect? You’re in the right place.

Verdict: The Surf Club is an experience leaving a memory for life. It’s luxe, it’s old-school, and it executes like a metronome. It would be a waste to visit Miami and skip it..