Yes, cheesecake is on the menu.
The Golden Girlsremainsone of themost culturally influential showsto ever grace the small screen . Not only was it years forward of its time on issues like marriage equality and female sexuality — it was also piercingly hilarious and full of sarcastic , witty one - liners that stick out up almost 30 years later .
It ’s why I strike to Miami as soon as I was old enough to decide for myself and why my college flat was a wash of caning and pastel upholstery . When I visit LA shortly after Rue McClanahan die , I put blossom in the driveway at 245 N. Saltair , much likeFriendsfans of late did for Matthew Perry in New York .
So when password of theGolden Girls Kitchenhit societal metier , I get message from just about every person I ’d ever met to share the news . And when it at last opened this week , I was , quite literally , the first mortal through the door .
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Ignore , for a hour , that I was in a breezy retrofitted outdoor distance in a Wynwood storage warehouse . As far as I was concerned , I had locomote back to 1986 at 6151 Richmond Street , and I was sitting in a place I ’d never dreamed I could visit . And as the ardent , tropical air blew through I almost expected Blanche Devereaux to come swagger through the French doors , or for Harry Weston to walk up and necessitate if I ’d go steady his dog .
The bug out - up restaurant experience is a assembling ofGolden Girlssets , theme way , and tribute to the corking comedic ensemble cast of all fourth dimension — with some food fuddle in so you could get a taste of what fuel the funniest ladies of the 1980s . It ’ll be unfastened through the end of the year at 350 NW 24th Street in Wynwood .
Just past the air hostess stand , after the atomic number 10 “ Thank You For Being a Friend ” mansion , the sustenance room that shaped my sense of interior designing seat in literal life story . I picked up the eighties pushing button phone next to the couch , and said , “ No Stan , Dorothy ’s not here . ”
After the living room , you ’ll find a mockup of the notable Lanai fill up with table where you’re able to model and enjoy dinner with a lovesome Miami breeze . Sadly , there are no lounge chairs , and no Walkmans cue up to trifle “ Purple Rain . ” But the paint backdrops await just like the show .
Past a paint wall ofGolden Girlsquotes and through a doorway you ’ll find yourself in the famous Golden Girls kitchen , fastidiously fit out in 1980s convenience and sentimental wall decor . The dictated reconstructions are Instagrammable bit — but more significantly , they ’re like your childhood come to life .
you’re able to lie in down in Blanche ’s palm frond bedroom , and personate for your own first appearance in “ The Men of Blanche ’s Boudoir . ” you could order a drink at the Rusty Anchor — which is a little too well illumine than it should be and alas does n’t have a pianissimo for you to sing on — but it does have a staff or bartenders done up in Hawaiian shirts , with nametags from the Shady Pines Retirement Home . Apparently , those survived the fire .
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The menu is a cheeky collection of show reference that ’ll have you and your friends competing to see who can get them first . You ’ll find Sohpia ’s Lasagna al Forno made with center and without . A Francis Bacon , scratch , and potato sandwich , which if you say it tight enough sounds like a BLT . There are tall mallow balls that seem a little more like arancini , seriously increase the likelihood a piffling former Sicilian gentlewoman will sneak one as before long as you look away .
There ’s even a Cuban sandwich on the menu , which is sadly not served by a swag fighter reciting poesy about his Hispanic roots , but could hold its own with some of thebest Cubans in Miami . you may also order Edgar Allen Poe - tatoes , and you wo n’t have to divvy up with that unsavory Barbara Thorndike .
And what would a meal in the Golden Girls ’ kitchen be without cheesecake ? The girl ’ favorite midnight collation comes in chocolate , strawberry , blueberry , and Oreo , with a vegan variety available as well . Desserts also let in a clown ice-cream sundae , presumptively like to the one Dorothy got on her birthday at Mr. Ha Ha ’s Hotdog Hacienda . And an order of Sperheoven Krispies , which you do n’t have to hold your olfactory organ to love .
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The cocktail menu is occupy with small-scale turn on traditional boozing withGolden Girls - inspired name . The Southern Belle Libation is basically an Old Fashioned that refuses to be call “ older . ” And the Lenai Cooler is a Tequila Sunrise , a tribute to early mornings on the girls ’ back patio .
The Golden Girls Kitchen will also offer some special upshot , like Sunday retarding force brunch and Saturday Golden Girls After Dark , where your ticket to an ’ LXXX theme night includes two cocktail and a midnight bite of cheesecake is available for leverage .
While Sofia would never dream of charge you for her intellectual nourishment like that outlaw Mama Celeste , Golden missy Kitchenticketsare $ 34 per person and includes a main course and a slice of cheesecake . Sides , drinks , and salad are extra . Sarcasm is still completely complimentary .
