As you probably know by now, Windsor, Annie and I are down in Miami for a week and a half on “spring break” (so that we can keep in touch with our college audience, of course!)! In addition to hitting the gym, we’ve managed to find some delicious and inexpensive meals to chow down on.
Annie and I got to Miami after Windsor on Sunday, and she picked us up at the airport in our rental car, and we made a pitstop on our way back at Pollo Tropical, my all-time favorite fast food place in Florida, which I really wish we had in Massachusetts. I am obsessed with their sweet plantains, so we went through the Pollo Tropical drive-thru and got an extra large order of them to split. Wonderful start to our trip!
On our first full day in Miami, we were craving Mexican food for dinner after the gym. After checking out the menus at a bunch of over-priced Mexican restaurants, we finally found one that was perfect for our startup budgets: Pepper’s Burrito Grill. I got vegetable quesadillas:
Annie got vegetable fajitas:
And Windsor got vegetable tacos:
We loved the food so much that we were tempted to go back there for dinner the second night after the gym, but decided we should try something different. I remembered there being an amazing cheap sushi place nearby from when I went to Miami with my college roommate Becca last year over spring break, so we tracked it down: Miyako. They had this amazing deal where it’s $13.95 for all-you-can-eat sushi. But instead of it being a buffet, you order the individual items (rolls, tempura, soup, salad, etc.) on these special cards, where you write your initials, your table number, and the exact number of each item that you want (e.g., putting “1” next to cucumber roll means they literally bring you one individual cucumber roll- we did not realize this at first!). But here’s the catch: for every item that you order and do not eat, they charge you an additional 50 cents! This policy certainly makes sense so that you order only what you actually want to eat and don’t end up wasting tons of food, but it made ordering kind of tricky since we had to guess at how much we were going to want to eat!
Everything was delicious and among us we ordered a selection of hand rolls, sushi rolls, crab rangoon, spring rolls, miso soup, salad, and sesame balls, and we didn’t leave any items uneaten!
Here are me and Windsor (post-gym) with the cards that you order on:
The next night we actually got dressed in real clothes, not gym clothes, for the first time this trip and went out to a nice dinner! Stay tuned for a review of that tomorrow :)