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Casa Tua
- Style
- Art-filled Mediterranean villa
- Setting
- Peaceful South Beach avenues
A Mediterranean revival-style boutique hotel in the South Beach art deco district, Casa Tua is a welcome rebel among the swaggering ranks of mid-Fifties Floridian retro hangouts. The mood is one of relaxed luxury, with European antiques, crisp white linens and chic home comforts.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Five.
- Rates
- Low season, US$400–US$600; high season, US$750–US$1,050, including à la carte breakfast. Excludes tax at 13 per cent.
- Check-out
- Midday.
- Facilities
- Valet parking, CD/DVD library; flatscreen TVs, CD/DVD player, free WiFi, minibar, Santa Maria Novella toiletries from Florence, Treca mattresses.
- Children
- Babysitting is available and costs US$20 an hour (for a mimimum of three hours).
- Also
- You may smoke outside or on your balcony (if your room has one), but not inside the property.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room 4 has a Franco Simoni canopy bed, an inviting sofa recess and twin sinks, but is the only one without a balcony. All the rooms are lovely, with king-size beds, Loro Piana cashmere throws and bespoke Bellora bedlinen, antiques, artwork and spacious bathrooms. Room 5 is one of the largest, and also has a steam bath.
- Packing tips
- A large empty suitcase – almost everything on display at Michele Grendene's impeccably appointed hotel is available to buy, from the limited-edition Taschen books on the coffee tables and the Florentine toiletries to the fine art on the walls.
- Also
- Staff will ring you ahead of your arrival to make sure the bathroom is stocked with your preferred lotions and potions on arrival.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Casa Tua's excellent restaurant occupies the interconnecting ground-floor rooms of the main house and serves classic Italian and Mediterranean food – chef Sergio Sigala's speciality is risotto, and there's a well-matched list of fine wines.
- Dress code
- Guests can of course wear shorts and flip-flops if they wish, but the restaurant requires a tiny bit more effort: go for casual chic.
- Top table
- Linger at a candlelit table outside in the garden; the pretty main rooms feel like a friend's home, with bookshelves and ticking-covered bench seats. Alternatively, there's a communal chef's table overlooking the kitchen, for quick plates of pasta.
- Last orders
- Restaurant is open daily for dinner, 7–12pm; and for lunch on weekdays, 12–3pm (but hotel guests are catered for round the clock).
- Hotel bar
- The Club on the second floor is a private members' bar. Sink into a soft white armchair and sip one of Casa Tua's great Bellinis. It's particularly popular on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, and often has live music.
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Local restaurants
The Collins Avenue beach strip with its many hotels, restaurants and bars is on your doorstep.
Bond St (+1 305 398 1806) at the hip
Townhouse hotel on Collins prepares excellent sushi and Bloody Marys carefully crafted with sake. Just across the road is the Setai (+1 305 520 6000), the height of South Beach opulence and excess; its restaurant show kitchen produces excellent Thai, Chinese and Indian dishes.
Nobu (+1 305 695 3100) at the Shore Club serves unparalleled Asian cusine; the rock shrimp tempura is a signature dish. Also at the Shore Club,
Ago (+1 305 695 3226) is a well-regarded Italian restaurant owned by Robert de Niro; get a table outside.
Nightlife
Check out the rooftop lounge at the
Townhouse.
