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There's an 80-seat restaurant, patisserie, culinary theatre, wine store, rooftop bar and cooking classes in a theatre that resembles a Food Network set. While a holiday centred around food is nothing new in California's Napa wine country, rustic Vermont or romantic Tuscany, it's a fresh idea in Florida.
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The decor is also food-themed. Paintings of fruit grace the walls, cookbooks line bookshelves in the lobby and pillows on the hotel beds depict utensils. An 2.5-metre high knife and fork rest in a corner and in a hallway, two vertical, living herb gardens are a lush addition.
The Tampa-based Mainsail partnered with the owner of the city's best-known restaurant - Bern's Steak House - to develop the boutique Epicurean hotel. Bern's is across the street from The Epicurean, and Collier says he expects guests to eat at the restaurant, drink at the hotel's bar, sleep at the hotel, then enjoy other food-related activities the following day.
Bern's, which was opened in Tampa in 1956 by Bern Laxer and is now owned by his son, David Laxer, boasts one of the largest wine lists of any restaurant in the world. TV chef Rachel Ray named it the best steak house in the United States, and Wine Spectator Magazine has given it a "Grand airline tickets orbitz preferred airport search Award" every year since 1981.
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The patisserie will be open by mid-January, the spa will do business by the beginning of February, and a lavish grand opening party with celebrity chef Norman Van Aiken is scheduled for January 17-19.