![]() ![]() Oolite sold its 1932 corner building at 800 Lincoln Road, a prime pedestrian retail and restaurant thoroughfare, to a local real estate developer in 2014 for $88m, which is to reopen as a retail space. “This is where a lot of Miami’s artists have moved over the last decade or so.” “We’re excited that we’re moving to a location in which artists play a very important role in the neighbourhood,” Scholl says. Oolite Arts’s new space will be on a 50,000 sq ft property the organisation purchased on 72nd Street in the Little River neighbourhood in the City of Miami, about a half-hour drive from its current home in Miami Beach off of what is now a prime retail and pedestrian thoroughfare, Lincoln Road. It has supported artists such as Teresita Fernandez and William Cordova, and recently launched a programme of monetary visual arts awards (the Ellies) and a curator lecture series in partnership with the local arts non-profit Locust Projects. “We really want to build a facility for artists that reflects the ambitions we have, both for Oolite Arts and the artists in our community,” says the local collector and philanthropist Dennis Scholl, the organisation’s president and chief executive.Įstablished in 1984 to “help artists help themselves” through affordable studio space, according to its founder Ellie Schneiderman, Oolite Arts now offers multiple residency programmes including a studio residency programme, a cinematic artist residency and an international exchange programme, as well as community classes, outreach and exhibitions. Reinforcement validation of Miami's first and only 100% gluten free restaurant concept was provided for by a second 3.5 star review by John Tanasychuk, Food Editor and Dining Critic for the Sun Sentinel and a Golden Spoon from Florida Trend's Food Editor Chris Sherman for Best new Restaurant 2014.The organisation formerly known as Art Center/South Florida this week announced a spiffy new name, Oolite Arts-after the coral and seashell bedrock on which Miami stands-and plans for a purpose-built facility on the city's mainland that will expand its residency and public programmes. The evolution being Red Light, Florida Cookery and now Oolite Restaurant & Bar. Oolite Restaurant & Bar amplifies Chef Kris Wessel’s credibility to create original Regional concepts with this 3.0 version. ![]() Chef Wessel’s authentic, progressive Healthy Regional is a “new” way of dining where all items on this menu and used in the kitchen are gluten free with zero processed sugars, oils or grain. Wessel paints from a subtropical-seeped palette, squeezing acid from Key limes and sour oranges sussing sweetness from guava, guanabana and late-season mangoes and sourcing proteins from Florida farms and local waters. ![]() In his 3.5 star Miami Herald Review Editor Evan Benn described the cuisine this way: Oolite Restaurant & Bar's commitment to gluten-free ingredients cooked with regional flavors does not limit its ability to impress. As ambitious as it is creative Oolite Restaurant & Bars's Cuisine is first a healthy Regional dining concept designed with the signature flavors and culture of the environs and a healthy application of Protein with influences from Florida, the Gulf, the Caribbean, and the American eastern seaboard.
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