Soused Spice: De Rodriguez Ocean offers open bar with Miami Spice menu (ladies & Thursdays only)

By Lesley Abravanel | Lank@aol.com8/28/2012

Forget raising the bar. For any female partaking in the $35 Miami Spice menu on Thursdays, De Rodriguez Cuba is opening the bar. Yup, the menu now includes free shots, champagne and cocktails.The open bar part lasts all night, they tell us, and this lush's wet dream takes place every single Thursday from now until even after Miami Spice is long gone when a prix-fixe menu will likely still be available.

For reservations, call 305-672-6624.

Here's the food menu:

Appetizers

Crunchy Cuban Vegetable Salad- With hearts of palms, chayote, calabaza, cucumber, carrot, pickled red onions, malanga, mint, cilantro and red pepper vinaigrette

Shrimp & Tostones Ceviche-Marinated lime, orange and chipotle served with tostones

Goat Cheese Black Pepper Empanada- Roasted beet salad, pickled onions, curried marcona almonds

Entree

Grilled Churrasco Steak- With Heriloom tomatoes, avocado and herbed warm rice salad

Shirmp and Grits- Shirmp in a spicy tomato-garlic sauce over “tamal en cazuela” (sweet corn Cuban grits)

Cuban Garbanzo Bean Rice Cake- Served with Cuban vegetable escabeche

Dessert

Creamy Cuban Rice Pudding- served with almond and sesame cookie

Key Lime Pie- Served with coconut sorbet