why I hadn't been to the federal
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that is what a jar o' duck looks like. It's a family style, shared dish on the "Federal Classics" part of The Federal Food, Drink & Provisions menu that comes with a duck mousse, charred fluff and candied sweet potato plus a little extra micro greens. You spread it all on toasted baguette and dig into a dish the embodies the heady, high-concept comfort food at The Federal, one of Miami's most buzzed about restaurants as of late.
I'd put off a visit to The Federal for a few reasons.
One - trying to visit all the flash-in-the-pan restaurants-of-the-moments in Miami is exhausting. Sometimes, a girl just wants a comfortable meal at a tapas place with a fountain in the middle of it and a menu you know by heart that you've gone to since you were like eight, ya feel me?
Two - I'd has this idea that The Federal was going to be a meaty-meaty place and I'm also exhausted by overly meaty menus that are the trend as of late. Turns out, I was kind of wrong. The menu was meaty, and we had a couple plates of heaping animal flesh including the famous "pig wings," a piece of pork prepared like a buffalo-style chicken wing, and the very large pork shank, but it wasn't all meat.
Next time that I visit, I'll be ordering everything from the "From The Garden" part of the menu. The beet salad and the burrata where the real stand-outs (we ordered those two salads, Buttermilk Biskit, the South West Mac & Cheese, Pig Wings, Jar O Duck, Pork Shank and Charred Octopus). I'm impressed by a good salad or vegetable plate and these were good, very good. The Roasted Beet Salad came with crispy fried goat cheese, pecans orange and stripped raw beets along with the roasted beets it was both light and heavy, and would have a made a great meal on it's own. But, it goes with the territory of writing about food, you've just gotta over-indulge. You know, to try everything, even the real meaty dishes - for an educated opinion, you know?
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51 32 biscayne boulevard