New Pastry Chef at Wish Restaurant

Chef Marco Ferraro's take on snapper; he's just released new menu items.

​Anastazia N.C. Carter has been named as the new pastry chef of Wish Restaurant at The Hotel. Anastazia, whose real name is Gertrude (just kidding), is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Johnson & Wales University; she earned an Associates Degree in baking and pastry arts in November 2008. Prior to that she was pastry sous chef at Steak 954 at W Fort Lauderdale, and pastry chef at Casa Casuarina (aka Versace Mansion).

Carter's new desserts ($10 - $12) include spiced carrot cake with carrot-ginger puree, candied pecans, raisins and fresh whipped cream; Meyer lemon pie in an almond crust with torched meringue and a strawberry-star anise puree; and guava yuzu cheesecake with cookie crust, almond crumble, macerated star fruit and elderflower-basil syrup. The chef's complete dessert menu, still in development, is expected to be in place within the next month.

Other Wish news:

Chef Marco Ferraro has put forth a plethora of new menu items. These include sun choke soup with brioche croutons, caraway seeds, chive oil and micro greens, and cauliflower soup with bread crumbs, croutons and basil oil ($12 to $14); appetizers ($15 - $19) like heirloom tomato gazpacho, with king crab meat, avocado, croutons and yuzu-aioli; and a new spiny lobster tail entrée with corn hash, bacon vinaigrette, basil oil and corn foam ($34). TA 3-course prix fixe menu is also available for $45.

Wish Restaurant
801 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach
305-674-9474