Is there anything better than dinner and a show? With all that Miami offers, this classic date night is often overlooked. Lucky for us, the city’s own billion-dollar, over-the-top, hotel-meets-arts-complex, the Faena Miami Beach, is bringing it back… in a way that’s truly Miami, of course.
If you’re in the mood for a new kind of date night, grab your honey, head to the hotel, and start your evening with an imaginative dinner at Los Fuegos or PAO by Paul Qui {3201 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach; 786.655.5600}. Different from most meat-centric menus in Miami, Los Fuegos celebrates the South American culinary art of live-fire cooking, serving up Wood Oven Empanadas filled with hand-cut Prime filet, Sturgeon Caviar Potato, and to share, Meat ‘Parrillada’ with skirt steak, bone-in ribeye, chorizo, morcilla, charred kale, and domino potato–all with the careful touch of a gaucho. Equally impressive but entirely different, PAO by Paul Qui puts an innovative, extravagant twist on Asian cuisine, teasing our palates with tastes like Unicorn with sea urchin and grilled sweet corn pudding, East Side King Fried Chicken with sweet chili sauce and roasted banana ketchup, and Crispy Fried Leche Flan with pomegranate caramel and chocolate sauce.
As for C’est Rouge!, there are two kinds of performances: those that include a Dinner Show and those that do not. Before non-Dinner Show performances of C’est Rouge!–which take place at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, respectively–head to Los Fuegos or PAO by Paul Qui and get a three-course meal for just $100 per person, excluding tax and tip. Then, when you’re done, cap off your night with a sensual show. Putting on a show-stopping performance within the walls of the circular Faena Theater, C’est Rouge! promises talented dancers and acrobats clad in everything from Laurent Mercier to Christian Louboutin, seductive vignettes, a live septet band rocking Latin American and Jazz rhythms, a transcendent light show, and much, much more. It’s beautiful, it’s transformative, and it makes for a date night in the Magic City that is both delicious and, you know, magical.
For more information about C’est Rouge!, click here. Reservations for this pre-show dinner are required. 
Happy dining!
By Jennifer Agress | Miami Editor