Lido Cafe opens in Surfside, Florida inside of the Surf Club lodge.

Past summer season, Miami explained goodbye to Surfside’s Le Sirenuse Cafe, which shut after 3 several years at the historic Surf Club, unable to weather the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, a new chapter in Surf Club history has begun.

In Le Sirenuse’s space is Lido Restaurant, which options Mediterranean cuisine by Executive Chef Antonio Mermolia.

That implies a seafood-major menu, with emphasis on Southern Italian specialties.

“The marvel of Lido’s foodstuff is the art guiding the scenes,” Mermolia mentioned in a push launch. “I find to make each individual dish comprehensible, wherever my interest is on sourcing the world’s finest substances and then dealing with every a person with just what is needed to expose its essence.”

lido3 (2).jpg — The inside of Lido Cafe at the Surf Club in Surfside.

The menu features crudo this kind of as Tartare di Tonno (yellowfin tuna, burrato, toasted sesame seeds and basil) hand-reduce hamachi with tangerine and mint and langoustine tartare. Entrees involve lemon sole with charred zucchini and roasted sea bass with mashed potatoes.

You will also come across Italian touches like pizza and pasta, like shitake mushroom ravioli and spaghetti with clams.

“Even if you have experimented with pasta pomodoro almost everywhere, several situations in your lifetime, I really like the obstacle to get you to really feel that this one is as near as a person can get to your favourite childhood memory,” Mermolia reported.

The cafe functions an outdoor terrace, wherever Sunday brunch is king. Specialties incorporate consist of an Italian pancake with Macedonian fruit, whipped product and honey and complete branzino with roasted regional veggies. Lido Restaurant is also open for breakfast, lunch and dinner each day.

The club also features the first Thomas Keller cafe in Florida, The Surf Club Restaurant. The club’s well known Champagne Bar remains open and is the inspiration for Lido’s beverages program, with specialty cocktails like the Decisive Second, an award-winning cocktail of Bombay Sapphire gin, lactic sherry blend, Italicus bergamot liqueur, coconut olive oil and espresso balsamic vinegar.