Fontainebleau

Chappellet Vineyards at Gotham Steak Tonight

Tonight's installment of Fontainebleau's Cellar 1954 Series features one of the oldest family-run wineries in Napa, Chappelet Vineyards. Iwner Cyril Chappellet will be on hand to discuss his family vineyard while explaining the intricacies of each wine as they are paired with a special menu from Got ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Carly Rae Jepsen's BleauLive Concert at the Fontainebleau?

Call Mom Maybe. In honor of Mother's Day weekend, multi-platinum pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, the superswank Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and its BleauLive performance series will be answering "the wish in a well" of Jepsies and their momsies with fun, brunch, manicures, pedicures, blowouts, and even a ... More >>

FL Cafe Opens Following Lengthy Renovations; Brother-Sister Pair Bring French Flair at Affordable Price

Every restaurant up and down Miami Beach claims to pay close attention to detail. After all, how can they get away with charging exorbitant prices for simple dishes and subpar service? One thing is for sure: Only one restaurant in Miami Beach features original lamps that 150 years ago were chosen to ... More >>

Are You A Wine Snob? Find Out in Time for the Festival

For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Think about the last time you shared a bottle of vino with friends. Unless you're a group of uppity wine connoisseurs or sommeliers, chances are the wine in your glass mean ... More >>

Enrique Iglesias, Flo Rida, Maroon 5 at iHeartRadio's Ultimate Pool Party at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, June 30

See the full 80-photo slideshow from the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at Fontainebleau Miami Beach. iHeartRadio Bleau Live Ultimate Pool Party A "special appearance" from Enrique Iglesias With performances by Flo Rida, Maroon 5, and Gym Class Heroes Fontainebleau Miami Beach Saturday, June 30, 2 ... More >>

iHeartRadio's Ultimate Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach June 29 and 30

Maroon 5, Calvin Harris, and Others Set for Fontainebleau's iHeatRadio Pool Party

Calvin Harris, Maroon 5, Flo Rida, Gym Class Heroes, Enrique Iglesias ... It reads like the soundtrack listing of a PG-13 rom-com. But that's just the lineup for the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In fact, the two-day musical extravaganza is a strict 21-and-older ... More >>

Cecconi's: New Brunch Buffet This Sunday

​Cecconi's is launching a brunch "feast" this Sunday, and although you will have to go get your own food (the spread is being served buffet style) the booze will come to you. The suddenly popular "Bloody Mary cart" (also on offer at Tudor House's brunch) will be roving, and the $35 cost includes 1 ... More >>

Deadmau5's New Year's Day Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

​Deadmau5's New Year's Day Pool Party With Stephan Luke, Troy Kurtz, and Damaged Goods Fontainebleau Miami Beach Sunday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: A night without a jillion jiggawatts of bass. Trillion dollar hotel, international DJs, good-looking people getting wild and out of control? What ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012: Deadmau5's Rat Riot at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Via facebook.com/deadmau5​Where will you be when the Mau5head drops on 2012? Well, if you happen to be a club rat worth his or her weight in gourmet cheese and all-you-can-drink champagne, then you're gonna be holed up at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach ordering entire wheels of Roquefort and endle ... More >>

Bleau Goes Pink

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Miami Spice 2011: Composite Listing of The Good, Great & Grudging

billwisserphoto.com1500 Degrees puts out a hot Spice menu.​Over the last several days we have been reviewing Miami Spice menus; the $35 prix-fixe, three-course promotion began yesterday (and continues through September). Some restaurants embrace this program with more of a giving attitude than oth ... More >>

Miami Spice 2011: The Good, The Great, and The Grudging (Miami Beach)

Does 1500 Degrees deliver on its Miami Spice menu?​Miami Spice 2011 begins in five days. Each year, we like to take a look at the menus being offered and share our take on them. Some restaurants, as most already know, embrace this annual $35, three-course promotion with more enthusiasm than others ... More >>

Simon Bowker's Chicken & Stuffing

Fontainebleau Miami Beach​In our interview with Chef Simon Bowker of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, we learned what's it like to work in a high pressure Michelin rated kitchen, and where he gets "naughty" in his down time. Today we present his formula for chicken and stuffing, a long-winded ... More >>

Fontainebleau's Bowker Plates A Mean Banquet, Part 2

Fontainebleau Miami Beach​Banquet Chef de Cuisine Simon Bowker moved to the U.S. to take on the kitchen management of a massive event space at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In the first part of our interview we got the lowdown on what it's like to work in Dubai, and how he handled the press ... More >>

Beauty and the Beat

Where To Take Dad This Father's Day

Treat dad to dinner at Bourbon Steak​Father's Day is this Sunday, so you better start making plans if you want to take dad out to eat. Here are five ideas of where to celebrate this June 19. (All prices exclude tax and gratuity.) Barbecue at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Skip the restaurant a ... More >>

Live the Brunch Life at Vida

Comedy for Fools

SBWFF 2011: More and More at Best of the Best

Chocolates from Andrew Shotts of Garrison Confections in Providence, Rhode Island​What's your idea of the good life? Is it a sprawling private event held in something called "the Sparkle Ballroom" in a glamorous over-the-top Miami Beach resort? Is it top-rated bottles of rare, aged grapes all sile ... More >>

Flayed Out

What Will $25,000 Get You at Tiësto's Goodbye 2010 Fiesta?

​This year we're turning our backs on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, and dropping two beans at the Fontainebleau for Tiësto's goodbye 2010 fiesta. The electro Dutch master is ringing in the New Year with a three-hour poolside set at the historic resort. And for just $25,000, you and your ... More >>

Vida's Breakfast Buffet Leaves Fontainebleau with Egg on the Face

John Zur​On a Sunday morning, Vida, Fontainebleau's three-meal contemporary cafe, serves a breakfast from seven until noon. Swirls of mostly hotel guests are up and about between buffet tables. We were greeted and our reservation was recognized with efficiency; this was the smoothest part of our m ... More >>

Thanksgiving Restaurant Deals: The Worst, The Best, and The Rest

​​Let's forget all the obligatory turkey talk and get down to the wavy gravy: A slew of restaurants are offering Thanksgiving Day specials, and we've sorted through them for you. This means a studious scrutiny of the menus as they relate to value and overall allure (listed prices do not include ... More >>

Fontainebleau Restaurants Go Pink For National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hakkasan​Miami Spice came to a close yesterday but restaurants at the Fontainebleau Hotel are continuing to offer a prix fixe menu during October.Starting Sunday and through October 31, Scarpetta, Hakkasan, Vida and Gotham Steak will serve a $39 prix fixe "Bleau Goes Pink" menu to coincide with Na ... More >>

"Mountaintop Waterdrop": Watch Joaquin Phoenix's Documentary Trailer, Try Not to Gag

Here is the first trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's college project went-crazy-for-a-year documentary, I'm Still Here. There's a guy with a "the dude abides" voice talking about mountaintop waterdrops and other Zen things while Phoenix does his best Zach Galifianakis impression, including angrily&n ... More >>

Best of Miami Spice 2010

Fontainebleau Black Widow Narcy Novack Connected to Yet Another Murder Attempt

​In today's roundup of midsummer bummers: Fontainebleau black widow Narcy Novack is connected with yet another murder plot, a Miami Beach hotel ruins a couple's wedding but offers to hold the ceremony in a sandwich shop, the Founding Fathers shed tears of joy over the return of a very patriotic en ... More >>

Miami Spice: Deal or No Deal? Hotel Edition

La Marea is the real deal.​In parts one, two (steakhouse), and three (Asian) of our series, we perused the Miami Spice deals from various participating restaurants and put in our two cents as to whether or not they were worth taking advantage of. Today we take a look at those hotel restaurants tha ... More >>

WMC 2010: DJAM Tribute at LIV, Lineup Hints

​So by now you've probably heard that DJ booking agency Deckstar and LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel is hosting a tribute for Adam Goldstein, AKA DJ AM, who died of an accidental drug overdose last summer.But who exactly will be paying tribute to the fallen DJ? Our sources wouldn't give us specific ... More >>

Miami Food Culture Featured in New York Times Magazine

Detail of a New York Times Advertisement - 1895An old lady reads the gray lady.​Sunday, New York City, the world; literally hundreds of people will read the newspaper that made newspapers famous.Good thing they have a website.Yesterday's Sunday Times Magazine, in a pre-preemptive strike on Art Bas ... More >>

News Roundup

WTVJ has found a replacement for Julia Yarbough. Meet Kevin Corke, former national correspondent for NBC as well as a SportsCenter anchor. [SFLTV]Should we save Miami Marine Stadium, or should we let it be a cute place for raccoons to hang out? [AP]President Obama will be in town Monday attending a ... More >>

WSJ: Fontainebleau on the Verge of Defaulting On Huge Loan

It's been a tough summer for Miami Beach's most iconic hotel. via Wikimedia Commons ​The global Arma-recession has grounded flocks of would-be vacationers at home in Hamburg and Milwaukee and Bogota. A massive storm collapsed the roof at LIV. And Ben Novack Jr., heir ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalGeorge Novack, Jr., son of the Fontainebleau's original owner and a Ft. Lauderdale convention planner, was found beaten to death in his hotel room in New York City. [USAToday]A North Miami Beach imam is facing deportation, so he's reaching out to Kendrick Meek. [Herald]The express lanes on I95 ... More >>

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 >>

For the Fashionably Conscious

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

Head Spins: DJ Vertigo

Like the architecture degree he keeps sequestered, and the dizzying heights implied by his name, DJ Vertigo structures some truly classic nights on the town. Sure, the head spinner's using sound, rather than steel and concrete, to create what he envisions. But that doesn't make the edifices any ... More >>

Second Chance For SoBe Wine & Food Tix

This coming Monday morning, January 12th, a second block of tickets for previously sold out events will go on sale. So if you were bummed at being shut out of Rachael Ray's Burger Bash or The Best of the Best at the new Fontainebleau, you've been given a second shot. You can get your tix  at ww ... More >>

Bill Clinton Charms the Fontainebleau

As easy as he is to mock with decades-old jokes, we've got to hand it to Bill Clinton -- the dude can warm a room like Wayne Newton on crystal meth.  Not that last night's Fontainebleau crowd was a hostile audience. About 300 of Miami's glitterati -- among them sunglass mogul and philanthropist Sa ... More >>

Diddy Will Deny The Bearcat's Fancy Hotel Stay

It is football day here on Riptide apparently, so we'll keep this post short. The Cincinnati Bearcats will be playing in the Orange Bowl on New Years Day against Virginia Tech (a game the Canes, theoretically, could be playing in if they didn't have such a deep commitment to ruining everything). S ... More >>

Fontainebleau Spends Sexily

The Fontainebleau's marketing department is one entity that seemingly won't need a bailout anytime soon. Last weekend's festivities certainly must have cost a pretty penny, and inserting a 16-page booklet into December's Vanity Fair doesn't come cheap. The thing is supposed to be a calendar, but bas ... More >>

SoBe Wine/Food Fest Tix Go On Sale

Salsa That You Dip

No chips necessary at the Miami Salsa Congress.

Shake It Like Your Favorite Condiment

Crazy Delicious

The festival disappoints slightly, MIAMIntelligence tanks, Aquabooty continues to rock

Mambo Years

Paquito Hechavarria misses Perez Prado

"I Rode for Lansky"

Miami Beach's premier crooked jockey reminisces

The Fidel Fixation

Exactly 36 years ago the Central Intelligence Agency blew it at the Bay of Pigs. For an encore it created the biggest commando operation in U.S. history -- right here in South Florida. It's time for a sentimental tour.