Lili’s Mediterranean Food

It says Mediterranean , but Lili’s just serves Spanish food—great Spanish food and some of the best in Coral Gables. Which is surprising coming from a place playing a looped video of an astronaut canoeing down a fluorescent river. The small restaurant is decorated in what we're calling cosmic surrealism. Everything from the walls to the pendant lights and booths are black. You feel like you’re eating gambas al ajillo suspended in space, surrounded Dali paintings of melting clocks and cracking eggs. Luckily the great tapas anchor you back to a delicious reality, like piquillo peppers stuffed with creamy bacalao and covered in a warm red sauce. On Saturdays, a live band plays jazz or baladas, but they should be playing David Bowie because the room is a space oddity and the tapas are out of this world.