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Inside AYRE by Karma: Michelin-Honored Indian Dining Comes to Singer Island
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By Eric Barton | Dec. 2, 2025
AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.
Singer Island already had sunrise yoga, cold plunges, and that particular silence you only get when the Atlantic is doing all the talking. What it did not have, until now, was a modern Indian tasting menu unfolding just upstairs from the spa. AYRE by Karma opens today at Amrit Ocean Resort, the first Florida outpost of a Michelin-recognized D.C. restaurant.
In D.C., Karma became the dining room for diplomats and power players who wanted Indian food that felt current without losing its soul. It’s held a Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2021. On Singer Island, that playbook gets rewritten for a wellness resort that talks as much about Ayurveda as it does about Champagne. AYRE leans into Amrit’s language of mindful living: spices with purpose, dishes built to feel lighter on the body. But it still wants you to enjoy dinner, not tally antioxidants.
Chef Asif R. Syed
The kitchen belongs to chef Asif R. Syed, a James Beard House–featured chef and Food Network champion who once beat Bobby Flay. Syed has cooked at both the White House and the vice president’s residence. He is also well known to Florida diners from his years running 21 Spices in Naples, which makes this feel less like an outside group parachuting in and more like a homecoming with a bigger stage. The brief is modern Indian, yes, but also a bit of theater: live fire, tandoor breads, and the kind of plating that makes you pause before you dig in.
You can treat AYRE like a special-occasion tasting room or a more casual night out, depending on your mood. The menu offers tasting menus of three, five, or seven courses, at $75, $105, and $145. A sample three-course path might start with tellicherry pepper crab or coconut avocado tikki, move into spinach and paneer croquettes, grilled branzino, gucchi chicken, or grilled lamb chops, and end with guava samoa, dal halwa pâte de fruit, qubani apricot confit, or coconut sorbet.
Spinach and paneer croquettes
Because this is still Palm Beach County, the wine program does not phone it in. Pairings at $50, $85, or $105 pull in bottles like a Sancerre from Domaine Fouassier, Baroli Barolo Achille, Boisset No 21 from Burgundy, and grower Champagne from Canard-Duchêne. It is the kind of list that can go toe to toe with spice, but also quietly please the tablemate who just wants “something crisp and French” in their glass.
Grilled lamb chops
Lobster masala
If you are not in a tasting-menu mood, à la carte options include exported hits from D.C. like lobster masala and chickpeas and goat cheese naan, along with jicama jashan, paneer pesto, and Amritsari snapper. The common thread is spice handled with restraint and confidence: fresh blends ground in-house, plenty of smoke and char from the tandoors, and sauces that read as bright rather than heavy. AYRE seats about 80 between the studio-style dining room and an oceanfront terrace, plus an outdoor lounge for light bites, cocktails, and wines by the glass.
AYRE by Karma’s patio
AYRE is open for dinner Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 5 to 9 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays until 10 p.m. In a county that has long leaned on steakhouses and seafood towers for its celebration dinners, a Michelin-recognized modern Indian restaurant opening right on the sand feels like a welcome new habit in the making.
