Well, Miami Spice is upon us again. Those precious couple of months when people go out to dinner in Miami and don’t immediately look at their check and say, “Hey, you misplaced a decimal point!” The time of year when restaurants craft special three-course menus called “prix-fixe,” which, according to Google translate, means “free scoop of gelato.”
It’s a special couple of months where restaurants who advertise fine imported seafood create a dish for their Spice menu called “jellyfish innards,” which sounds like a delicacy until you realize that jellyfish don’t even have outtards. It’s a time you can get a $35 plate of spaghetti for $50, with an optional $15 meatball supplement.
Spice was first created 24 years ago, when restaurants realized August and September were months most Floridians only left their houses to panic buy Fiji water. In order to lure locals out, restaurants began offering three-course dinner menus for $29.99, giving access to eater…
