In addition, you ll get a Tacolandia restaurant card, which entitles you to a free taco from a host of participating restaurants just stop in with your card for a taco. The card is good through June 1, 2021, so you ll have plenty of time to redeem your tacos.
So far, participating on-site restaurants include Xochimex Cantina Grill, La Santa Taqueria, Twice Butter Mexican Fusion, La Tiendita Taqueria, Maya Mi Cocina, and Dulce Vida Mexican restaurant with more restaurants yet to be announced.
Restaurants participating in the Taco Card include Bartaco, Taco Taco Express, Taco Beach Shack, Taco Taco South Beach, BC Cafe, Xochimex Cantina Grill, Lona Cocina, Charly s Vegan Taco, Twice Butter Mexican Fusion, Autentica Taqueria, Blue Taco, El Rancho Grande, La Tiendita Taqueria, Maya Mi Cocina, Los Magueyes, and Dulce Vida Mexican Restaurant.
The chef says Mrs. Balloo will be an extension of Balloo, a 31-seat jewel of a restaurant in the Ingraham Building that was lauded for its intimacy of space, flavors, and stories after it opened in late November of 2019.
While Balloo focused on Timon s West Indian and Chinese heritage, Mrs. Balloo will delve into the Thai roots of his wife and partner, Marissa. This is a little more focused on Asian flavors. We re also not taking ourselves too seriously.
The name is also a nod to the Balloo household, which the chef shares with wife, Marissa, and daughters 12-year-old Kirin and Sophie, who s four. It s a houseful of females and Mrs. Balloo represents all of them, especially the great woman who has been beside me for 25 years.
T-Rex, zebra, and friends dine at Batch.
Photo courtesy of Batch Gastropub
Batch Gastropub 30 SW 12th St., Miami 305-808-5555 Batch Gastropub s 15 TV monitors and three projectors are strategically located so everyone has a great seat, whether outdoors or at the bar. Game-day drink specials include $25 buckets of five 16-ounce beers (Bud, Bud Light, Shock Top, or Rolling Rock), $5 Bud Light pints, and $5 barn burner shots (Irish whiskey, green apple schnapps, cranberry juice, and orange bitters). Chow down on bar favorites like Buffalo nachos, pulled-pork egg rolls, and wings.
The Butcher Shop Beer Garden & Grill 165 NW 23rd St., Miami 305-846-9120
Each participant will receive a three-course dinner kit with all the ingredients to prepare dinner for one as well as those needed to make the cocktails, plus a premium mezcal gift box courtesy of Señorío that contains a 750 ml bottle of the distiller s Joven mezcal. The kit will be delivered to your door within an hour of the start of the event. Recipients must be home to show proof of being over 21 to delivery person.
While you sip your mezcal, Mendín, a five-time James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef (South), will fill you in on Señorío s history, as well as the processing and distillation methods in place at the distillery in the Oaxacan city of Tlacolula.