The Palms’ Essensia Unveils Autumn Menus & Weekday Specials
Highlighting Plant-Forward and Sustainable Seafood Options
MIAMI BEACH, FL (November 7, 2024) – Essensia Restaurant & Bar, nestled in the heart of Miami Beach's historic The Palms Hotel & Spa, launches new Autumn Menus of mindfully sourced, healthfully prepared Mediterr-Asian Cuisine, together with a new line-up of Weekday Specials highlighting the restaurant’s signature plant-forward and sustainable seafood offerings and its all-natural wine list.
Located just steps away from the ocean, in the luxurious and tranquil Mid-Beach area, Essensia offers a sanctuary for the senses designed to nurture both its patrons and the planet. Upon entering the elegant tropical dining room and Caribbean-style terraces, diners immediately feel a sense of calm and well-being, making the venue ideally suited for intimate dinners, small group celebrations and weekend brunch. Make a reservation online or call 305.908.5458.
Mediterr-Asian Flavors: Healthfully Prepared, Mindfully Sourced
The culinary approach at Essensia centers on maximizing nutritional value and flavor while minimizing the impact on the environment. Essensia sources premium, in-season, and sustainable ingredients wherever possible. Most produce, dairy, and other specialty ingredients are from Florida farms and purveyors. Meats and poultry are hormone-free and sustainably farmed, and all seafood choices follow the guidelines of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program. This commitment to well-being extends to a diverse menu, offering many glutenfree, vegetarian, and vegan choices. Moreover, Essensia is dedicated to environmental stewardship, actively engaging in practices that reduce food waste, recycling practices, energy, and water conservation, and the support of an eco-friendly lifestyle.
The flavors of Chef de Cuisine Diana Tandia’s menus are influenced by her African heritage, her classical French schooling, as well as by her extensive travels in Asia. Mentored by culinary giants Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Daniel Boulud, Chef Tandia skillfully weaves African, 1 French, Mediterranean and Asian influences into her cooking–but always with an emphasis on premium, seasonal, wholesome ingredients.
This autumn, start with a Miso Butternut Squash Soup or the Grilled Herb Lamb Kofta with lemon tahini, harissa, sumac and artisan pita bread. The seasonal Kale Harvest Salad currently presents a canvas of butternut squash, apple, avocado, fire-roasted corn, pomegranate, crumbled feta and toasted pumpkin seeds, drizzled with a tahini miso dressing. Florida Cobia Crudo features a seasonal persimmon relish, avocado mousse, espelette pepper and citrus yuzu vinagigrette. orange citrus soy dressing, avocado, Fresno chili pepper, and micro cilantro.
Signature Mains include the robust Jungle Seasonal Vegetable Curry with aromatic coconut lemongrass broth, kaffir lime, and fresh seasonal vegetables, accompanied by stir-fried forbidden rice. The Rosemary Lamb Shank, slow-cooked to perfection, accompanied by garlic mashed potatoes, ratatouille and lamb jus, is an example of Chef Tandia’s perfect execution of classical French cuisine, while her Butternut Squash Risotto - an indulgence of Gratitude Gardens organic mixed mushrooms from Loxahatchee, Florida, kale, butternut squash, parmesan tules, and black truffle, reflects her commitment to mindful sourcing. For a sweet finale, the autumn menu’s Seasonal Persimmon Tarte and Creamy Basque Cheesecake provide the perfect endnote to the dining experience.
Specials: Meatless Mondays, Half Off Wine Wednesdays, Ocean-Friendly Fridays
To highlight its plant-forward dishes and sustainably sourced seafood, Essensia now features an array of weekday specials: Indulge in a thoughtfully curated, plant-focused dining experience with our special 3-Course Meatless Mondays Dinner Menu. Savor a variety of inspired vegan and vegetarian dishes for $55++, crafted with seasonal ingredients and rich flavors.
Explore our extensive selection of mindfully grown and sustainably produced wines with an exquisite mid-week dinner paired with your favorite bottle of wine at 50% off on Half Off Wine Wednesdays.
Celebrate the bounty of the sea with a conscience every Friday. Our 3-Course Ocean-Friendly Fridays Dinner menu showcases a sustainable seafood dining experience for $75++, thoughtfully crafted to spotlight the freshest local and responsibly sourced ingredients.
ABOUT THE PALMS HOTEL & SPA
The Palms Hotel & Spa combines genuine service, laid-back sophistication, and oceanfront serenity into a 251-room vacation, meeting, and wedding destination where complete wellness and environmental awareness are at the center of each guest experience. Privately owned and managed, The Palms sits along a wide stretch of beach on the northern, more tranquil side of South Beach. An AAA Four-Diamond rated hotel with an AVEDA lifestyle spa, The Palms Hotel & Spa is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, a collection of the finest independent luxury hotels around the world, and Beyond Green, a global portfolio of planet Earth’s most sustainable hotels, and the recipient of Travel & Leisure’s World’s Best Award for seven 2 consecutive years. For reservations or further information, please call 800.550.0505 or visit www.thepalmshotel.com. The Palms is located at 3025 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140.
ABOUT ESSENSIA RESTAURANT & BAR
Essensia Restaurant & Bar, the signature restaurant at the wellness and sustainability-minded The Palms Hotel & Spa in Miami Beach, offers globally inspired, mindfully sourced fare with seasonally rotating dishes highlighting locally grown produce and purveyors as well as all-natural farms whenever possible. Purity, freshness, and taste are at the center of each flavorful dish, while handcrafted cocktails and a carefully selected wine list complete the experience in a tropical and casually elegant indoor-outdoor ambiance that feels worlds away from the city’s hustle and bustle. Essensia unveiled a complete interior redesign and new menus by Chef de Cuisine Diana Tandia in Fall 2023. The restaurant has been honored with a Slow Food Snail of Approval since 2011 and is a Surfrider Foundation Ocean-Friendly Restaurant, as well as having received the ‘Best Outdoor Dining’, ‘Best Scenic Views’, ‘Best Healthy Restaurants’ and ‘Best Brunch in Miami Beach’ in OpenTable’s 2023 and 2024 Diners’ Choice Awards.Essensia is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch, and welcomes private parties of up to 28 guests. For reservations, please call 305.908.5458 or visit www.essensiarestaurant.com. Essensia Restaurant & Bar is located at The Palms Hotel & Spa, 3025 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33140.
