This is our go to place. When we really dont feel like cooking, have visitors in town or just need a great night out this is where we go. Its setting is a 1940's house, white and blue and you enter on the side through the wooden gate. It is all outside seating with wooden tables , blue and white chairs, trees with white lights, greek oil canisters turned into flower pots and foliage all around you. It makes me feel that I am very far away from Miami.
The staff are the most pleasuable people I have come across in all my eating days. Each unique with a bit of hippiness, dressed in casual chic but hippy clothes. The aura of these girls that wait on you is so soft, gentle and peaceful. I would love to become best friends with each of them because its rare to see bohemian/hippy type girls here in Miami. I love this 1. Because I went to college in the upper peninsula in Michigan where drum circles, playing harmonica, eating homegrown and organic food was a no brainer and that we all listened to jerry and sometimes made our own corderoy patchwork pants and 2. Because 5 years ago I was living in Asheville opening up a wine shop called http://www.flatrockwineshoppe.com/ and the atmosphere there is pretty laid back as well. So I miss that..... but being a chameleonn I also like this life. Anyway back to Mandolin. The home-y vibe feels good with greek sea salt at your table, warm bread in a brown paper bag and a glass rioja and I'm really in for the night. Some of the standouts when it comes to the food are the mussels, the saginaki, the arugala, beat and walnut salad. For main dishes I love the perfectly grilled lamb chops drizzled with greek olive oil and the seafood stew. My honey literally has dreams about the shrimp with feta and ouzo. I also like to just enjoy being outdoors, watching the girls in their homemade aprons move about .....and linger with the smells coming from the kitchen.
Mandolin thank you for being here in Miami!
The staff are the most pleasuable people I have come across in all my eating days. Each unique with a bit of hippiness, dressed in casual chic but hippy clothes. The aura of these girls that wait on you is so soft, gentle and peaceful. I would love to become best friends with each of them because its rare to see bohemian/hippy type girls here in Miami. I love this 1. Because I went to college in the upper peninsula in Michigan where drum circles, playing harmonica, eating homegrown and organic food was a no brainer and that we all listened to jerry and sometimes made our own corderoy patchwork pants and 2. Because 5 years ago I was living in Asheville opening up a wine shop called http://www.flatrockwineshoppe.com/ and the atmosphere there is pretty laid back as well. So I miss that..... but being a chameleonn I also like this life. Anyway back to Mandolin. The home-y vibe feels good with greek sea salt at your table, warm bread in a brown paper bag and a glass rioja and I'm really in for the night. Some of the standouts when it comes to the food are the mussels, the saginaki, the arugala, beat and walnut salad. For main dishes I love the perfectly grilled lamb chops drizzled with greek olive oil and the seafood stew. My honey literally has dreams about the shrimp with feta and ouzo. I also like to just enjoy being outdoors, watching the girls in their homemade aprons move about .....and linger with the smells coming from the kitchen.
Mandolin thank you for being here in Miami!
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