Area 31 at EPIC Hotel, a Kimpton restaurant, is inviting you to enjoy a cocktail and help benefit CARE Resource Center with Cocktails for a Cure. As part of Kimpton’s Red Ribbon Program, Area 31 is featuring three cocktails from October 1 through World AIDS Day, December 1, to raise funds for CARE Resource Center, South Florida’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS organization. When guests purchase one of Master Mixologist Jacques Bezuidenhout’s featured cocktails, $1 will be donated to the charity. All of the Red Ribbon cocktails will be available for $10 each.
Raise a toast to the cure with the ROUGE (Belvedere Vodka, Grand Marnier, Campari and fresh orange juice shaken with raspberries), RUBY RED (Belvedere Pink Grapefruit Vodka, Lillet Blanc, fresh grapefruit juice and simple syrup muddled with ginger coins and sparked with club soda), or the VS SMASH (Hennessy VS, Grand Marnier, 10yr Tawny Port and lemon juice muddled with pineapple and dusted with grated nutmeg).
For more than 20 years Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants have been partnering with HIV service organizations through employee volunteerism, HIV educational campaigns, corporate donations and raising funds through special events. Throughout November and December, 10 percent from the sale of holiday gift certificates to Kimpton restaurants will benefit Red Ribbon charities nationwide. In last two years the Red Ribbon campaign raised more than $170,000 for local HIV charities throughout the United States.
ABOUT AREA 31
Miami’s Area 31 at Kimpton’s EPIC Hotel has the prestigious honor of being named one of the Best New Restaurants of 2009 in the November issue of Esquire magazine. The restaurant, located on the 16th floor of Kimpton’s EPIC Hotel, delivers guests a dramatic menu of fresh, premium seafood prepared with a Mediterranean influence. The restaurant, which debuted December 15, 2008, features seafood from its namesake region Fishing Area 31, the ecologically sound marine waters of the Western Central Atlantic including the entire Florida coast, Central America and northern South America, with its menu created by rising star John Critchley. The menu is complemented with a wine list expertly assembled by Master Sommelier Emily Wines along with an innovative cocktail list from Master Mixologist Jacques Bezuidenhout.
For more information, please call Area 31 at 305.424.5234 or visit www.area31restaurant.com. Area 31 is located on the 16th Floor of EPIC Hotel at 270 Biscayne Blvd. Way., Miami, Florida 33131.