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Before you ask, Yevgen Yasenko has already heard all your wisecracks about the Federal Spa & Restaurant, his classy hybrid eatery and bathhouse in Hollywood.
No, the grilled vegetables don’t come extra-steamed. The ribeyes are not cooked sous-vide in the jacuzzi. And remember Kramer’s bathtub garbage disposal from “Seinfeld”? Well, forget it: There’s no snacking in the Russian banyas.
“I’ve heard it all, like, ‘If my steak is rare, finish it in the sauna,’ ” Yasenko says with a laugh.
Inside the 9,000-square-foot restaurant-spa on North Federal Highway, which held its grand opening in mid-June, customers can order a Mediterranean-accented menu of branzino, grilled octopus, lamb chops and cocktails. After that, they can don robes and finish their experience with a hot jacuzzi, a cold-plunge pool, a Finnish sauna, a steam room session or a traditional banya (a Russian steam bath), all located roughly 30 feet from the dining room.
Or diners can rejuvenate in reverse, filling up on nutrients they just sweated out in the sauna. Which is exactly the reason Yasenko thought it was brilliant to combine a bathhouse with beef tartare.
“When you visit a spa or bathhouse for two or three hours, you’re going to feel hot, dehydrated and pretty hungry,” Yasenko says. “Instead of leaving the spa to find a place to eat, they can stay here. Even if you don’t want a bath, you can still have lunch or dinner.”
The Federal’s best-of-both-worlds experience is comparable to the conga line of A1A beachfront hotels where spa retreats and sit-down dining are an elevator ride away. But even posh resorts require dress codes. Not so at the Federal, where guests can luxuriate with glowing skin and gain a newfound appreciation for eating dinner in their bathrobes, he says.
“I want my customers to feel so relaxed, maybe they’re too lazy to leave,” adds Yasenko, of Aventura.
Yevgen Yatsenko, owner of the Federal Spa & Restaurant in Hollywood on Wednesday, June 25. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Yasenko, 41, is no stranger to pampering other people. He says he operated bathhouses in his native Ukraine for a decade and vacationed in South Florida every few years. When Russia’s war with Ukraine broke out in 2022, “I decided to stay here until the end of the war,” he says.
Pulling off a combination bathhouse-restaurant — a rarity in Hollywood, if not South Florida — required the type of zen patience one expects from a guy who runs a temple of wellness. Figuring no landlord would let him convert a commercial space into a hybrid business, Yasenko says he bought the Federal’s building and land from the city of Hollywood in 2022. (He spent $1.8 million, according to county property records.) Then came a full year of permitting and waiting, followed by 20 more months of excavating and construction.
The result is a luxe relaxation space that feeds into an outdoor patio with a 25-foot-long swimming pool, sunbeds and a 10-seat full-liquor bar. Customers wanting to dine in bathrobes after their soak can do so on the pool deck but not inside the 3,500-square-foot restaurant, he says.
The Federal Spa & Restaurant is located along busy Federal Highway in Hollywood. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
The cost of a spa day pass is $80 Mondays through Thursdays and $100 Fridays through Sundays, excluding food. The spa area is adults-only, and for now will be limited to just women on Tuesdays and men on Wednesdays, he says.
“We just want ladies to relax without other men’s attention, and vice-versa,” Yasenko says.
The Federal’s 50-seat dining room, tastefully appointed in black globe lights and leather banquettes, leans into American staples with Mediterranean flavors under executive chef Vsevolod Leonov (ex-Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach). They include cold and hot appetizers ($15-21) such as salmon tidadito in a kimchi-ponzi sauce, pan-seared royal shrimp in a fragrant coconut curry, or tzatziki with zucchini chips.
The lamb chops at Federal Spa & Restaurant in Hollywood. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
For mains, there’s a 12-ounce ribeye with royal oyster mushrooms, peppercorn sauce and golden hasselback potatoes ($48); a lamb rack glazed with spicy gochujang and chimichurri ($39); and roasted Atlantic salmon with baby carrots, asparagus and tarragon beurre blanc ($28).
A customer enjoys the spa at the Federal Spa & Restaurant in Hollywood on Wednesday, June 25. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
The spa’s pool deck, meanwhile, offers a handful of off-menu dishes catering to the Federal’s most popular clientele so far: Russians and Ukrainians living in Hollywood, Hallandale Beach and Aventura, Yasenko says. Specialties include okroshka ($18), a Russian summer soup consisting of radishes, cucumbers, dill and a creamy yogurt base. Guests can also order bowls of soul-warming borscht ($18), piping-hot beef stroganoff ($30) or savory suluguni cheese wrapped around lavash bread ($16).
The Federal Spa & Restaurant, at 1203 N. Federal Highway, in Hollywood, is now open. Call 305-488-5585 or go to FederalSpa.com and Instagram.com/Federal_Spa.
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