Bal Harbour

Lovely, Brunchly

Kick off the weekend’s saddest day in style.

The View Will Save You

Not from yourself, but from a dive bar.

Beach Access Closed, for a Price

Not from yourself, but from a dive bar.

Save the World: Buy Shoes

Benefit reception for young women from foster homes

Miami Chefs Move, Restaurants Close, People Get Taxed And Die

Heralded French chef Christian Delouvrier is gone from La Goulue in The Shoppes at Bal Harbour. If you log in to the restaurant website for details, it will say: "Coming Soon! La Goulue Bal Harbour". Executive chef Carlo Macaluso has left the relatively new Cita's Italian Chop House in Coconut Grove ... More >>

Swelter

Heralded French chef Christian Delouvrier is gone from La Goulue in The Shoppes at Bal Harbour. If you log in to the restaurant website for details, it will say: "Coming Soon! La Goulue Bal Harbour". Executive chef Carlo Macaluso has left the relatively new Cita's Italian Chop House in Coconut Grove ... More >>

South Pointe Espresso

Segafredo Zanetti Espresso has opened yet another café, this one at 124 Collins Avenue -- they already operate one on Brickell, one in Bal Harbour, and about 570 more worldwide. Segafredo South Pointe will follow the same successful formula as the rest: Coffee, snacks, cocktails, a late night loung ... More >>

Silicone Celebration

Jacqueline CariniDr. Michael Salzhauer at his plastic surgery runway show at Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery Associates. Click here to view the full slideshow.It never fails: just as we finish explaining to our out-of-town friends that Miami's not really like that, we catch wind of something like this: ... More >>

Down At the Hooch and Brooch

Imagine a string of saloons where the barstools are comfy, the conversation giddy, and the drinks are always free

Swelter

Imagine a string of saloons where the barstools are comfy, the conversation giddy, and the drinks are always free

Swelter

Imagine a string of saloons where the barstools are comfy, the conversation giddy, and the drinks are always free

Mall Adjusted

Imagine a string of saloons where the barstools are comfy, the conversation giddy, and the drinks are always free

Sorry Buddy, the Employee Lot's a Mile Up Collins, on Your Left

Bal Harbour Shops staffers lost some of their Christmas cheer on the long haul from the Haulover Beach parking lot

Feeling 1 Bleu at The Regent Bal Harbour

It's expensive and mostly satisfying — not enough from a superstar chef.

Let's Get Jiggly

Plastic surgery clients parade a Bay Harbor Islands catwalk.

Thanks, Mom!

For all the crap you’ve pulled, give her a great Mother’s Day.

Miami's Most Incredible, Fantastic, Amazing Year in Music!

Will someone please turn off the hype

Deconstruction

The last day of Menes Daniel’s life ...

Learn the Mother Tongue

The last day of Menes Daniel’s life ...

Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless

The last day of Menes Daniel’s life ...

Last Chance Bistro

La Goulue aims at a better class of mall rat

Luna Rocks

For reasonable Italian food with stellar service, the Billantes can’t be beat

Food and Fundraising

For Miami's social elite, high-end galas are high-calorie affairs

BEST SHAVE

The Art of Shaving

Bal Harbour Shops

BEST PLACE TO TAKE

Biscayne Bay

Greek for the Meek

Too bad this Greek restaurant is a lesson in underachievement

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Too bad this Greek restaurant is a lesson in underachievement

Changing Rooms

Where, oh where have all the chefs gone?

Letters from the Issue of March 21, 2002

The heartless sea claimed the Fantome and crew

Don’t Get Holidazed!

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Stanley Whitman's Wonderful Life

He was born to wealth, he built the wildly successful Bal Harbour Shops, and he always seems to get what he wants -- no matter what

Best Chocolate

Krön Chocolatier

Best Mall

Aventura Mall

Side Dish

Take her to B.E.D.

Night & Day

March 25 - 31, 1999

Turning Japanese

March 25 - 31, 1999

Coming Up Roses

March 25 - 31, 1999

High Rollin'

March 25 - 31, 1999

The Great Miami Restaurant Bubble of 2009

We alluded to the bubble in this column yesterday. Here is a list of many, maybe most, but certainly not all of the mid-to-high end restaurants that have opened over the past 6 months (actually, the majority are fairly expensive). We're leaving out lower end ethnic joints, pizza places, and the like ... More >>

Food News Roundup

Dunkin Donuts breakfast deals. [MiamiCheap] Canned potatoes leave Alicia Ross naked. [DesperationDinners] 4th of July specials at Red The Steakhouse. [Kavetchnik] Regent Bal Harbour bankrupt, 1 Bleu may stay, or everything may change. [ChowHound] Basil in the Grove is no longer open, meaning they a ... More >>

A New Chocolate Drink Hits the Zodiac

​When the largest candy in the store in the world -- NYC sweeterie Dylan's Candy Bar -- does confections, you better believe it's gonna be good. So the next time you're at Neiman Marcus Bal Harbour's Zodiac Cafe and your server asks if you'd like dessert after you've scarfed down their legendary d ... More >>

Mark Militello Leaves 1 Bleu for The Office

Photo by Jacob KatelChef Mark Militello​Chef Mark Militello has left 1 Bleu at the One Resort and Spa (formerly The Regent Bal Harbour) to join The Office, a gastropub in Delray said to be opening in late November. Last December Militello took the reigns as executive chef of culinary operations a ... More >>

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Cheers Gotdammit

Photo via Flickr/CC 2.0​You worked all week at your desk job, factory, kitchen, office, street corner, or couch, and now it's time to let loose and let that weekend energy plow you over like a bulldozer. So things are tough all over; jobs, school, money, healthcare, war, that kind of stuff, but we ... More >>

Harboring Surf Rockers

Photo via Flickr/CC 2.0​You worked all week at your desk job, factory, kitchen, office, street corner, or couch, and now it's time to let loose and let that weekend energy plow you over like a bulldozer. So things are tough all over; jobs, school, money, healthcare, war, that kind of stuff, but we ... More >>

Miami Free Times: The Rapture, Iggy Pop's Birthday, and Surfer Blood

This week we deserve extra credit or at least a gold star. Instead of five free events for the week, we've supplied eight. Monday: Avoid the rain. Stay indoors by making an appointment to see Believe the Hype.Tuesday: Stop waiting around for the Rapture to occur. Go seek it out for yourself at the A ... More >>

Slideshow: Surfer Blood Defies Gravity at Bal Harbour Resort

Photo by Ian WitlenSurfer Blood's TJ Schwarz flying the friendly Bal Harbour skies​Surfer Blood headlined the Ten-in-One Music Festival on Thursday evening at the posh Village of Bal Harbour in Miami, and shooter Ian Witlen was there to take lots of photographs of the guys wearing shorts and not s ... More >>

Ten For $10 or Less For the Weekend of June 11 - 13: Jazid's B-Day, 2 Live Crew's Mr. Mixx, and More

via myspace.com/mongolianjermainemusicJohn Hancock 11 other guys Lolo's b-day = This Friday at the Vagabond​Friday, June 11*Jazid beings its weekend-long 14th anniversary celebration tonight with the debut of its new reggae party, Freeup Fridays, featuring live music tonight by Jahfe and Mixed ... More >>

New Word on Stephen Starr's Bal Harbour Restaurant

Bullfrog & Baum​We learned a little something more about the new Stephen Starr restaurant opening in Bal Harbour.Last Friday at Fashion's Night Out, there were samplings from the venue which included a delicious tuna tartare. The restaurant is still lacking a name and in hopes to finding one, ... More >>

Makoto ranks with Asian greats

Bullfrog & Baum​We learned a little something more about the new Stephen Starr restaurant opening in Bal Harbour.Last Friday at Fashion's Night Out, there were samplings from the venue which included a delicious tuna tartare. The restaurant is still lacking a name and in hopes to finding one, ... More >>

Mister Collins Brings New Life to Bal Harbour Dining

Lesley ElliottChunks of first grade tuna are served with a side of crispy fried yucca chips. ​Bal Harbour offers a measly array of restaurants for the walking wallets who live there. For years, La Goulue and Caffe Da Vinci fueled pre-shopping lunches and family dinners, but now it seems resta ... More >>