DELANO HOTEL

Bianca at the Delano: High Prices and Snobbery Stir Memories of a Meaner South Beach

View a slide show of Bianca.

Mix It Up Mixology Challenge at The Broken Shaker Crowns Last Year's Winner

​About 35 guests gathered at The Broken Shaker last night to watch as ten Miami bartenders competed in the 2012 Mix It Up Mixology Challenge. This competition weeds out nine other bartenders and sends the winner to compete nationally in New York.After a rather long introductory spiel, the bartende ... More >>

Chris Paciello ratted on mob bosses, new documents show

​About 35 guests gathered at The Broken Shaker last night to watch as ten Miami bartenders competed in the 2012 Mix It Up Mixology Challenge. This competition weeds out nine other bartenders and sends the winner to compete nationally in New York.After a rather long introductory spiel, the bartende ... More >>

Chris Paciello, Murderous Nightclub Impresario, Arrested For Drunk Driving at 80 MPH Through South Beach

​Chris Paciello is an old school South Beach legend, a Bonnano crime family goon who conquered the nightclub scene before being sent to federal prison for his role in a murder. These days, he's back in his old stomping grounds working for the Delano Hotel, and is very sorry about having helped kil ... More >>

Robin Thicke Talks Double-Digit Orgasms, Baby-Making Music, and NYE in Miami

​The real reason for kissing at midnight on New Years Eve? Whether you're single, married, divorced, or your outlook on monogamy is much like Tiger Woods', everyone is trying to get some. And if anyone is going to help you get laid, it's Robin Thicke. So if you are looking to keep it sexy this ... More >>

November Restaurant Openings & Closings

In September's Openings & Closings report, we cited a handful of openings (including Harry's Pizzeria and Phuc Yea!) and just a few closings. In the October edition, there were some dozen openings (like Yardbird and the two Pubbelly spin-offs) and again just three shutterings. November's numbers ... More >>

Tudor House puts quality over quantity

View a photo slide show of the Tudor House Restaurant.

Raleigh Hotel to Undergo $20-Million Makeover

​The Raleigh Hotel already has an air of unfussy chic that's unique in South Beach, but in this town everyone needs an occasional nip and tuck to stay looking good. Signaling yet another financial move to indicate tourism is back in business after a recession-blamed bump, the hotel has secured a $ ... More >>

The Blow at the Florida Room, July 2

Photo by Alex Broadwell​See the full 18-photo slideshow of The Blow at the Florida Room. The Blow With Melissa Dyne The Florida Room Saturday, July 2, 2011 Better Than: Red Hot Chili Peppers from the in-house DJ. Upon entering the Delano Hotel's Florida Room, the divide between the indie-loving ... More >>

Lenny Kravitz Hired to Redesign Troubled Paramount Bay Condos

​The troubled Paramount Bay condo building has become a symbol of Miami's real estate misfortunes. Construction started shortly before the real estate bust, but the project went into a record-breaking $262 million foreclosure. Now completed the 47-story building sits empty and was auctioned off ea ... More >>

Blue Door Fish: Renamed and refocused

​The troubled Paramount Bay condo building has become a symbol of Miami's real estate misfortunes. Construction started shortly before the real estate bust, but the project went into a record-breaking $262 million foreclosure. Now completed the 47-story building sits empty and was auctioned off ea ... More >>

DJ Irie: Life in the Fast Lane

​The troubled Paramount Bay condo building has become a symbol of Miami's real estate misfortunes. Construction started shortly before the real estate bust, but the project went into a record-breaking $262 million foreclosure. Now completed the 47-story building sits empty and was auctioned off ea ... More >>

The 15 Most Colorful Restaurants In Miami

Photo by Andrea F.The color yellow has been proven to increase the appetite.​​In alphabetical order:Acqua in the Four Seasons Hotel MiamiAqua connotes greenish-blue. Acqua connotes the restaurant helmed by chef Patrick Boucher in Miami's Four Seasons Hotel. The Life Acquatic is a movie with Bill ... More >>

The W South Beach's Thomas Merolla Talks Cocktails

Paula Niño​Thomas Merolla moved to Miami from Providence, Rhode Island sixteen years ago looking for something new and different. He was only 18 but his first job, bartending at the then newly opened Delano Hotel, marked the beginning of a career creating cocktails for some of the hottest spots i ... More >>

Best of Miami Spice 2010

Paula Niño​Thomas Merolla moved to Miami from Providence, Rhode Island sixteen years ago looking for something new and different. He was only 18 but his first job, bartending at the then newly opened Delano Hotel, marked the beginning of a career creating cocktails for some of the hottest spots i ... More >>

Top 5 Miami Restaurants for LeBron James to Dine At

Lee KleinThis could be yours!​OK, LeBron, all you have to do is let the word Miami mellifluously slide from your lips tonight and everybody will be happy. Extremely happy. And we know you'll be besieged with all sorts of stuff as soon as you make your announcement, so feel free to print out this c ... More >>

Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any ... More >>

Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any ... More >>

Cocktail World Cup Coming Up at the Delano

My deceptively simple entry into the competition.​The United States Bartenders' Guild (USBG) has been busy recruiting the top mixologists in the United States in order to enter their most inventive and elegant elixirs into The 6th Annual Cocktail World Cup competition (hosted by 42BELOW Vodka). Ne ... More >>

Tickets Still Available for South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2010

​If you thought it was too late to score tickets to the delicious South Beach Wine & Food Festival, think again. Several marquee events still have room for all the foodies out there. Most exciting is the fact that there are general admission tickets for the Perrier-Jouet BubbleQ for sale for $ ... More >>

The Delano's Florida Room snubs two gays without women

​If you thought it was too late to score tickets to the delicious South Beach Wine & Food Festival, think again. Several marquee events still have room for all the foodies out there. Most exciting is the fact that there are general admission tickets for the Perrier-Jouet BubbleQ for sale for $ ... More >>

No Boys Allowed: At Florida Room, Men Say Club Policy Is Behind the Times

photousa via flicker cc​​When navigating the most elitist nooks of South Beach clubland, it helps to have breasts. Not necessarily on your own body. Just in your presence, nearby -- bouncing against your arm if possible -- and the chances of getting past the doorman officially quadruple. Blair R ... More >>

A Dead Body and a $24,000 Heist at the Delano

​The ultra-posh Delano Hotel in Miami Beach, where your average room price exceeds $800 per night, had a disastrous Christmas. The morning of December 24, cops found the body of a giant washed up on the beach behind the hotel. They still haven't identified the 6'9", 335-pound corpse, and homicide ... More >>

Art Basel Leftovers: Max Fish, Kid Sister, Le Baron and Primary Flight

Oh, you thought the slideshows we posted up yesterday was the end of our Art Basel Miami Beach coverage? Hahaha! Oh, sweet Jesus! Absolutely not. Seriously, we could close out the month of December and still not cover everything we saw and did last week.So here are a few bonus galleries from last we ... More >>

Plat Bleu: The Invisible Bistro

Note to Plat Bleu: This is what bistro food looks like.Hungering for some hearty bistro fare, I had a friend call (on behalf of my wife and I) to request reservations at Plat Bleu in the Delano Hotel. Word came back that reservations weren't taken, and that the restaurant was located on the right si ... More >>

Delano Dishes Blue Plate Special

Tomorrow evening, February 5th, the Delano Hotel and its' new executive chef Maria Manso will debut the late-night brasserie Plat Bleu. With its' oversized tufted camelback sofas, etched mirror floor lamps, and Carrara marble-topped tables, the space is meant to evoke a 1940s French salon. The brass ... More >>

Ebony, Ivory, and Plantain-Crusted Grouper...

 ...is the answer to: What might you find at a Puerto Rican-owned piano bar/café? Merly Velazquez, niece of the late fashion designer David Fernandez, has partnered with Raymond Klein in opening Miami Arts Café across the street from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (255 NE 1 ... More >>

The Roots Performing in Miami for New Years Eve

Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>

Perry Farrell Performs Tonight at the Florida Room

Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>

Basel Buzz: Diana Lowenstein's Out

Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>

Let's Put on a Show

Bobby Macintyre creates a place for local musicians to collaborate

Set List

Ryan Evans

Critics Pick

Ryan Evans

Basshead

Winners and Losers

That Eighties Show

As nostalgia for the fun-filled Studio 54 era kicks in, don't forget Reagan, Boesky, and nuclear winter

BEST PLACE FOR COCKTAILS

Metro Kitchen & Bar

Hotel Astor

BEST HOTEL

The Creek

Side Dish

The Creek

Sunday, Bloody Mary Sunday

Do brunch the right way

Fine Wining & Wining

Just sobering up from the holidays? Here's a way to stay drunk another month.

Smooth Operators

Miami Beach and urban hip-hop make up for last year

A Glass-Half-Full Kind of Girl

This year restaurants will be taking their cues from high-gross films

Paradise Lost, Again

As Miami Beach prepares for life in wartime, it's on its own

Best Sushi

BlueSea

Seven Years Since Solitude

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism

The New, True Blue

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism

Cyan Aura

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism

Swelter 5

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism

Swelter 43

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism

Swelter 51

Laura Pausini learns to believe in magic realism