Featured Florida Chef

Chef Michael Bloise

Chef Michael Bloise of Wish, the Mobil Four Star restaurant at The Hotel on South Beach, has brought an eclectic cooking style with equal parts classic American and haute Asian since his appointment as Executive Chef in December 2003. "My menu at Wish strives to be unpretentious but artful," Bloise says, who is half-Italian, half-Vietnamese. "I love food that surprises you, that unfolds with each bite. Wish is such an enchanting restaurant; it deserves food that matches its elegance."

Chef Michael, a Johnson and Wales graduate, served briefly as executive chef of Miami Beach's Tantra restaurant; was executive sous chef at The Gaucho Room, formerly located in Miami Beach's Loews Hotel; and worked as executive sous chef under departed Wish chef E. Michael Reidt from November 2001 to November 2002. Wish, located at The Hotel, 801 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, remains a South Florida dining hotspot and continues its evolution as a bright spot on the national culinary map.