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Miami Beach: Corruption Central

SoBeWFF: Paula Deen's Sunday Brunch a Stylish Southern Affair

​The Loews Miami Beach Hotel's ballroom was filled with the good smells of Southern home cookin' yesterday at the annual Paula Deen Sunday Brunch. The room's crystal chandelier glistened as guests took their seats (most welcome after a weekend spent trying to juggle a plate and wine glass while st ... More >>

City Hall offers popular food for the masses

See a photo slide show of City Hall.

Emeril's Miami Beach to Close

Emeril Lagasse will close his South Beach restaurant...but will be back for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival​Emeril's Miami Beach, the southernmost outlet of Chef Emeril Lagasse's restaurant empire, will permanently close on August 7, after its last dinner service. Opened in Novembe ... More >>

Disco in Diapers

Emeril Lagasse will close his South Beach restaurant...but will be back for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival​Emeril's Miami Beach, the southernmost outlet of Chef Emeril Lagasse's restaurant empire, will permanently close on August 7, after its last dinner service. Opened in Novembe ... More >>

Hit-and-Run in SoBe Leaves Stilettos and Car Parts Scattered in the Street

A woman was struck outside the Loews. ​In today's roundup of horrible things: a hit-and-run sends a woman flying into the air in South Beach, someone slams a car into a Hialeah McDonald's, a toddler who went for a tumble should be fine, and there might be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow in d ... More >>

Graeter's Ice Cream Available at SoBe Scoops

Lee KleinGraeter's is the purple one.​The ice cream industry is really pushing the "National Ice Cream Month" promo this year, but in South Florida, every month is ice cream month. That's probably why local hotels are finally getting into the act with a new focus on inventive ice cream offerings ( ... More >>

Small Plates, Miami Spice, and Let's Switch Fin With Dragon

​*Miami Spice is gearing up for another run. As always, there will be restaurants where the Spice price represents real value, and restaurants where you'd be better off dining à la carte. It will run from August 1 through the end of September, and tickets have just gone on sale for the July 31 ki ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Competition, Hedy Goldsmith, Robbery, and Marlins Stadium

There's a new food blog in town and they want to give you a Miami culinary tour. [OnlinePR]Miami-based Benihana may get bought out. [Riptide]MGFD's pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith joins "World's Largest Girlfriends Getaway" at Loews Miami Beach Hotel. [PRweb]Miami Lakes convenience store robbed for $50,0 ... More >>

Miami Beach Offers an All-Access Card to Get Access to Your Wallet

Miami Beach residents have a new reason to wake up at 4 in the afternoon -- the all new Miami Beach INcard! Released yesterday, the free sliver of black plastic issued by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce gives residents discounts at clubs, museums, hotels, restaurants and shops. And since that so ... More >>

Motto Suggestions For Miami Restaurants

Restaurateurs are increasingly seeking new ways to boost sales. I say: A good motto never hurts. And also: But a bad motto is funnier. In that spirit, allow me to lend some ideas for catchy tag lines -- don't worry restaurant owners, no charge for the suggestions!Motto for Einstein Bros. Bagels on A ... More >>

Recession Be Damned!

Eat, drink, and spend at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

Sushi SoBe at Loews

Sushi SoBe landed in the lobby of Loews Miami Beach Hotel with less razzmatazz than one might expect -- especially in light of the menu having been developed by one of just six Master Sushi Chefs in the United States. That would be Fuji Fujita, executive sushi chef for Loews Hotels. Execution of the ... More >>

New Chef At Fratelli Lyon

Alejandro (Alex) Pinero has just been named chef de cuisine at Fratelli Lyon, the great regional Italian bistro that opened last May in Miami's Design DIstrict. Pinero, 35, is a Miami native who graduated Johnson & Wales University with honors. Between 1996 and 2004 he worked his way through th ... More >>

Paradise Found

Alejandro (Alex) Pinero has just been named chef de cuisine at Fratelli Lyon, the great regional Italian bistro that opened last May in Miami's Design DIstrict. Pinero, 35, is a Miami native who graduated Johnson & Wales University with honors. Between 1996 and 2004 he worked his way through th ... More >>

Paradise Found

Alejandro (Alex) Pinero has just been named chef de cuisine at Fratelli Lyon, the great regional Italian bistro that opened last May in Miami's Design DIstrict. Pinero, 35, is a Miami native who graduated Johnson & Wales University with honors. Between 1996 and 2004 he worked his way through th ... More >>

Wishful Shrinking

One of the Beach’s best is just getting by

The Beverage of Champions

One of the Beach’s best is just getting by

Miami Gripes, Part 2

A trip to Miami Beach gathers lots of moss

Even Meaner Girls

A trip to Miami Beach gathers lots of moss

Feeder Bands

A trip to Miami Beach gathers lots of moss

Chasing Emeril

A trip to Miami Beach gathers lots of moss

Selected Calendar Events

July 28-August 3, 2005

Brunch Two Ways: Right and Wrong

July 28-August 3, 2005

Dog Day Afternoon

Man and beast do brunch

BEST RESTAURANT IN SOUTH BEACH

Talula

Mad for the Cow

All Kobe, all the time

Emeril's Coasts

The spirit of America's favorite chef is absent from his Miami Beach namesake

Side Dish

The Loews kicks it up a notch

Season Opener Part II: The Comeback Kids

Get ready, this season is dishing up a lot of new restaurants

Closed Doors

Who's Blue Door's new chef?

Sunday, Bloody Mary Sunday

Do brunch the right way

A Cabbie's Crusade

Javier Peña is a maverick cabbie on a mission to turn the notorious Miami taxi industry into a respectable profession. So far he's been threatened, shot at, fined, and fired. In other words, he's making progress.

Jackass the Man

Johnny Knoxville hangs at South Beach's Club Deuce, stumbles through the MTV Latin video awards, and laughs at it all

Botox Rules!

Janice Dickinson personified high-fashion shoots and Hollywood trysts. Now modeling's original bad girl explores life beyond the runway.

Loews Gauchos

Gotcha: The Gaucho Room under a new chef still leaves a great taste

About a Dog

Father's Day? Bah humbug, it's your loving dog who deserves the brunch!

BEST GARISH PARTY OF THE YEAR

Ocean Drive anniversary party

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of July 26, 2001

The Color of Hip-Hop

As Miami Beach soon will learn, it's not black or white -- it's green

When E-Prophecy Fails

Fortunes and jobs are lost, but the allure of revolution remains

Kulchur

Bar some: What's fueling SoBe's underage-drinking crackdown?

Side Dish

Heeere's Johnny and Hillary 2000

Mongo Mango Tasting

Heeere's Johnny and Hillary 2000

Miami: See It Like a Pampered, Sheltered, Spoiled-Rotten Tour Operator from Munich

Highlights from Pow Wow, a multimillion-dollar exercise in insulated extravagance

Best Steak House

The Gaucho Room (in the Loews Hotel)

Best Piano Man

Arthur Hanlon

Swelter 32.10

Arthur Hanlon