Tap Tap is a famous & popular Haitian restaurant 

on 5th Street at South Beach.

It looks a bit, well, dodgy, but the food is excellent.

Murals on the wall.

 Starter:

Salad Zaboka Ak Tomato

- avocado & tomato salad with house dressing

Very nice! Lots of herbs in the dressing.

Main course:

Kribish Kokoye

- shrimp in coconut sauce

Diri Kole

- mixed rice & beans

Banann Peze

- fried plantains

The coconut sauce was so lovely and rich with a spicy flavour.

Everything was so fresh and clear. Loved it!

So colourful!

(If you like goat, you can have it here!).

 It took 15 mins to make the coffee...

Extremely strong!

 Tap Tap

819 Fifth Street

(btwn Jefferson & Meridian & Jefferson Ave)

South Beach

Have a seat on the terrace!

Meal Deal

The week's menu included fresh tuna, shrimps, veal, crab tails... 

All ingredients were bought at Publix.

 Salad with Sockeye warm-smoked salmon.

Tuna & shrimps with roasted sweet peppers.

 Tomatoes & anchovies.

Veal cutlet with asparagus and pan-fried potatoes with herbs.

 I never say no to home-made pizza!

 SoBe salad at Jerry's Famous Deli on 1450 Collins Avenue.

Hot dog - not my kind of food, sorry!

Be prepared, the menu at Jerry's is massive! 

The motto is:

"Some is good. More is better. Too much is just right."

 Easy Asian cooking.

Bought a package of vegetable spring rolls 

and heated them in the oven - better than would expected! 

Crispy & delicious!

Shrimps & vegetable wok.

 Salad with anchovies.

Breaded veal cutlet with cauliflower.

 Cooking the crab tails.

 Both cold & warm-smoked with pepper Alaskan Sockeye salmon 

with aragula and aioli with radish.

Surf & turf with asparagus and spicy hollandaise sauce.

 Sunday lunch with friends at the terrace of Big Pink 

on 157 Collins Avenue.

Crab cakes with slaw, hand-cut fries and strawberry shake.

The menu of the place is full of all-American favourites,

even TV dinners on a tray.

Without a reservation the queuing time for Sunday lunch 

is app. 15-20mins.

Treat of the week:

Lemon meringue pie from Publix and a package of mini m&m's.

Basic Breakfast

 One of my favourite breakfast places at South Beach is the legendary News Cafe on Ocean Drive.

Besides the good variety of breakfast options.

it's a marvellous place for people watching.

 I'm not a coffee drinker, but...

 I drink several cups of tea every day.

 I love to make my morning smoothies.

Soya milk based smoothies are my favourites.

Soya milk, banana, dried goji berries, mango, flex seeds.

Yummy!

Breakfast (literally meaning to break the fasting period of the prior night)is the first meal taken after rising from a night's sleep, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the day's work.

Mellow Yellow

 Bought some new fitness tops at Lululemon.

No excuses anymore to avoid doing some sports. 

 I have never liked yellow, but now this Power Up Tank

 is my favourite one.

No limits Tank in black with floral bra capture the freeing feeling of practising in a bra with the coverage of a tank.

Love it!

Pump It Up Tank in bright orange and dark blue has a loose-fitting and bra with adjustable straps to fine-tune the fit.

Feels good on but not really my colour.

I'm a big fan of Lululemon wear!

click click

Floral Delight

My weekly flowers.

Actually bought 3 bouquets if these lovely flowers 

(no idea of their name!) 

already last week on Monday when arrived back from the cruise 

and they are still gorgeous! 

Just have been adding some water for them as they seem to be pretty thirsty and eager to grow.

Piles of interior magazines are not the only magazines 

I've been buying lately.

The March issues have been read already!

Rainy Day?

 Life at South Beach.

 Ocean Drive.

 It was supposed to be a rainy day on Thursday, but...

 ...not so many clouds in the sky of SoBe.

The humidity of the air was super high though.

Well, we did get 2 quick showers, 

which both lasted around 30 seconds.

You know you're a Floridian if 

you never use an umbrella because the rain will be 

over in 5 minutes.

(It did rain almost all night, but who needs an umbrella at night.)

 Btw, it's Miami Boat Show this weekend.

There's Xmas going on in Bayside.

Sequins

Sequins on my new Victoria's Secret bikinis!

Victoria's Secret

745 Collins Avenue

Miami Beach

i've been looking for these sequin ones too,

but not yet found the right size in stores.

Coastal Look

 Flowers make a huge different!

Went to Whole Foods and bought some white lilies, white roses and  apple green chrysanthemums.

The fresh flowers are uplifting the minimalist style,

aren't they?

No more colours needed.

Beach Day

 Saturday was the first beach day for me.

 (the beach was pretty crowded as it's weekend,

but managed to avoid having people in the pic!)

 Beach reading.

Plain omelet, slice of whole grain bread and fruit salad.

Before going to the beach had breakfast 

at News cafe on Ocean Drive.