“Oooh.” The very first thing you discover while you stroll into Florida’s Eau Palm Seashore Resort & Spa is its spectacular foyer: swank chandeliers that forged a vibrant glow on shiny marble flooring.
And as you make your manner by the room full with couches, what’s that, past the glass doorways? The glowing, gorgeous Atlantic, little doubt keen so that you can leap in and splash round. Come on in, the water’s glorious.
It’s my first time in Palm Seashore and my first cease is the Eau (pronounced “Ohh”). Positioned simply on the sting of the southern a part of this stylish Florida group (in walkable Manalapan), the sprawling seaside resort provides the precise type of escape from regular life one needs. Lease? Taxes? The jury obligation letters stacking up in your mailbox? Nothing actually appears vital while you’re floating in certainly one of their oceanfront swimming pools, or sipping a frozen one within the solar (and sure, you may order out of your lounge chair).
Paradise right here additionally contains waking up in one of many property’s water-facing rooms. Some individuals come up from their slumber drooling whereas watching a wall. On the Eau, slowly open your eyes to the providential view of the fantastic solar rising above the ocean. It’s sufficient to make you wish to stop your job and turn into a seaside bum.
However any quantity of aquatics and solar are not any match for its spectacular meals and beverage scene. That features Polpo, an east-coast impressed Italian restaurant which boasts dishes that make you consider you’re someplace deep in Jersey (in terms of the meals no less than). Since I’ve been in a martini temper, I ordered a Ketel One Soiled Martini to begin; a relaxing salty delight that paired completely with a spicy plate of Stuffed Lengthy Sizzling Peppers, a tri-state delight, with some bites not for the faint of coronary heart. In the meantime, seafood dishes like Baked Clams, Linguine Con Vongole and Grilled Polpo (Italian for “octopus”) completely complement the views: look over there, it’s the ocean once more in all its glistening glory.
In terms of their cocktails, the Eau as a complete is thought for a scrumptious seasonal array of libations. This previous January, the bubbling Winter Spritz was on full show (Prescribed Gin, Aperol and Cara Cara Orange Juice), whereas March aptly boasts the St Patrick’s Day-themed Rocky Street to Dublin (Jameson Stout, Inexperienced Chartreuse, a couple of dashes of Peychaud’s).
Naturally, February’s cocktail star is a Valentine’s-themed concoction, blended up with tequila and grapefruit juice. Dubbed Cupid’s Kiss Paloma, go to the Eau to sip one by the ocean: or carry the resort straight to you by whipping up one at house.
Cupid’s Kiss Paloma
Components
- 2 oz Codigo Rosa Tequila
- ½ oz Recent Grapefruit Juice
- 1 Strawberry, halved
- 2 Raspberries
- Splash of Agave Syrup
Preparation
- Add the one half of the strawberry and the raspberries to a cocktail shaker.
- Muddle with agave, add ice, tequila and grapefruit juice and shake.
- Pressure right into a rocks glass over a big ice dice including one bar spoon of the muddled fruit.
- High off with Grapefruit LaCroix.
- Garnish with the opposite half of the strawberry.
