Michelle Bernstein

Dena Marino Launches Mercato: Casual Breakfast and Lunch in the Design District

Michelle Bernstein must be feeling the heat. Last year, just a few months after the James Beard Award-winning chef closed her acclaimed restaurant Sra. Martinez, Dena Marino made her debut in the Design District with MC Kitchen, a fine-dining establishment serving craft beers and delectable Ita ... More >>

SoBeWFF Swine & Wine: Pork and Booze, Come Rain or Shine (Photos)

On Sunday evening in the courtyard of the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, there were more than 19 stations serving caja china roast pork, mojitos, and wine. A live band took the stage, and songs such as Rosario's "Meneito" filled the air. As the night wore on, a light drizzle fell upon SoBeWFF's Sw ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Women Rule Delta Diamond Dishes

Look, we're not sports experts (unless you consider competitive eating a sport), but we will tell you that there's a frisson of electricity that runs through you when you step onto a major league baseball diamond. And that's what happened at last evening's South Beach Wine & Food Festival Diamon ... More >>

Orchid's Preview Ruined After Power Failure. Refunds Available.

Last night's preview of Orchid, Where Desire Blooms, was rudely interrupted by a transformer failure. According to a night watchman close to the problem area, "A little after 6:30 p.m., I heard the explosion, then all the lights went out east of NE Second Avenue south of NE 41st Street. I came out t ... More >>

The Vegan & Vegetarian Guide to Miami Spice

Miami Spice begins August 1. Like New York's Restaurant Week, it lets diners indulge in prix-fixe menus at the city's best restaurants at deeply discounted prices. We Miamians are actually even luckier than our friends up north, because our opportunity to "Spice" up our diets on a budget lasts ... More >>

Miami's Top Three Dining Streets

The question was posed to me in an email from some food television media type for an unspecified project:What is the best restaurant street in Miami? Think in terms of diversity or history or kitchen talent -- whatever quality makes it interesting and worth eating one's way from one end of the stree ... More >>

Cochon 555 Miami at Four Seasons Hotel: A Pignificant Way to Celebrate Pork

​We didn't know what to expect from Cochon 555 -- a national, pig-centric culinary event that made its way to Miami for the first time this past weekend at the Four Seasons. We knew that five chefs would be playing with pig parts from five heritage breed animals, but we had no idea how long they h ... More >>

Johnson & Wales Anniversary Contest: Eat, Tweet, And Win

​Johnson & Wales University North Miami is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a unique contest. And to help them, they've enlisted the aid of some of their culinary school alumni.Alumni who, by the way, happen to be behind the burners at some of Miami's best restaurants.To celebrate JWU's N ... More >>

Gail Simmons: Let's Try an Eggstravaganza

​Gail Simmons has a lot on her plate, so to speak. She's just added author to her already insane resume as Top Chef judge, Top Chef:Just Desserts host, and special projects director for Food & Wine magazine.Gail's memoir, Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life As a Professional Eater was just rel ... More >>

Palm Beach's Lindsay Autry Gets Booted Off Top Chef:Texas

BravoLindsay Autry was eliminated from Top Chef:Texas last evening.​Before Top Chef:Texas, Lindsay Autry was best known for her duties as Executive Chef of Michelle Bernstein's at The Omphoy.  Being the protege of Michelle Bernstein and executive chef at one of the her restaurants (since then ... More >>

Tonight: Timon Balloo Cooks a Five-Course Meal at His Own Banquet

Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill's Chef Timon Balloo will be honored this evening at his alma mater, Johnson & Wales University North Miami, and they'll hold a dinner to recognize him as the school's Distinguished Visiting Chef. The cost is $85 and proceeds will go to a scholarship fund in the university ... More >>

Common Threads World Festival (Photos of Big Names!)

All photos by Laine DossMichelle Bernstein with Common Threads students Cireh and Arieile.​Last evening some of Miami's best chefs shared cuisine from around the world at the second annual World Festival Miami to benefit Common Threads.The event at the Cruz Building in Coconut Grove featured great ... More >>

Common Threads Benefit: Exclusive Menu Preview

Michelle Bernstein will host the World Festival to benefit Common Threads​Coconut Grove's Cruz Building (in the old Christabelle's Quarter space) will turn into the United Nations for the second annual World Festival Miami tomorrow, November 15 to benefit Common Threads.Chef Michelle Bernstein wil ... More >>

Crumb on Parchment: Oh, Those Savory Scones (Recipe)

Lesley ElliottBacon, date, and blue cheese scones​Michelle Bernstein was kind enough to post her recipe for Crumb on Parchment's cherry-vanilla scones on Tasting Table. If you haven't had the pleasure, the scones are oversize and somehow both dense and fluffy. It's quite an achievement. The scone ... More >>

Win a $120,000 Food Truck! Buy a Ticket and Enter the Raffle

Are you feeling lucky?​If you've been going to some of Miami's food truck roundups with a wistful gleam in your eye and dreams of being the next big food truck sensation, this could be your lucky day. Burger Beast tipped us off that Tania Ramirez of Food Truck U.S.A. is raffling off a food t ... More >>

Macy's Chefs A-Go-Go Will Bring Michelle Bernstein's Summer Favorites to BTTR

​Everyone's getting in on the food truck action. Even Macy's is taking the popularity of the mobile meal and using the talents of famous chefs to market to the good old U.S.A. Miami is the first stop on the national Macy's Chefs A-Go-Go food truck tour, which will be showcasing Macy's Culinary Cou ... More >>

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A Miami Chef Timeline (1986-2008)

Chef Allen helped launch the modern Miami dining scene in 1986The closing of Chef Allen's last week represented the end of an important chapter in Miami restaurant history. There was a time in the mid-'90s when the main restaurant debate at gatherings focused on whether Allen Susser, ... More >>

Mystery Solved (Sort Of), Cinco Coming, and The Chew on TV

We found out the mystery café that had it's soft opening earlier this week will be called Crumb on Parchment. Michelle Bernstein's momma is making the baked goods. Stay tuned for an interview with her soon.Coral Gables is getting a new eatery: Cinco. Cinco is due--wait for it--on May 5 (uh, yeah, t ... More >>

12 Top Miami Chefs Who Were Not Too Big To Fail, Part Two

Ben FinkIt was a genuine struggle to the top​In yesterday's installment, we listed six chefs, in alphabetical order, who at one point or another in their careers encountered a flop. We continue with the remaining half-dozen:7. Chef: Andrea Curto-Randazzo and Frank RandazzoFlop: Water ClubTalula fo ... More >>

Midtown Is Miami's Best Dining Neighborhood

Coming to midtown...​As Waylon Jennings might have put it, we were looking for Miami's up-and-coming dining scene in all the wrong places. Like, for instance, the Design District. When Michael's Genuine Food & Drink took off, followed by Fratelli Lyon, Michelle Bernstein's Sra. Martinez, and J ... More >>

Brunch with a Senorita

Short Order Award winners

Miami Chefs Return from NoLa Ready to Support

Photo by Pete Souza/White House​Five months after the Deepwater Horizon spilled more than 5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans economy is still hurting. Three locals toques, Michelle Bernstein, Michael Schwartz, and Peter Vauthy, recently visited re-opened waters, spent ... More >>

Five Best Gourmet Foods in a Hurricane

The weather stinks today. Almost a hurricane. Who said just because the power is out you need to scrimp? In the event of a hurricane-caused power outage, one can only eat so much tuna or canned beans. And we don't even want to bother trying cheeseburgers, sandwiches, (AKA candwiches), or whole chick ... More >>

Easter Brunch in Miami: Where to Go?

​Easter Sunday is not only about Easter bunnies, egg hunts and Hallmark greeting cards. It's also a time for festive meals in the company of family and many local restaurants have created special menus to celebrate the occasion. We've selected the best around town.(In alphabetical order) Angelique ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein's Check, Please! Season 3 Premieres

via Check, Please! on FacebookEpisode 303: Doc Arrue, Michael Mayo, Michelle Berstein, and Mia McDonald.​We might have to get a TV.Michelle Bernstein's awesome, public television restaurant review show, Check, Please!, premiered January 18.They haven't started streaming the episodes online yet, bu ... More >>

All You Can Eat Fried Chicken Every Wednesday at Michy's in Miami

Jacob KatelMichy's fried chicken and sides.​Why did the chicken cross Biscayne? To take a hot bath at Michy's, in bubbling oil. Fried is to chicken as cold is to beer. If chicken was the first female president she would be called Aberhen Lincoln. Think out of the bawks. What came first the chicken ... More >>

Bernstein, Eismann, and Johnny V Forsake Helpless Animals

A few years ago I wrote a feature in New Times called Foie Wars, in which a dozen local chefs offered their views on the bloated liver controversy. I bring this up not to revisit the debate, but rather as a cheesy way to recycle a past article for self-promotional reasons. And also because I thought ... More >>

Michy's Launches Summer Wine Series, Updates Menu

TwitterBoiling it down on the Twittermonster... you go girl!Michelle Bernstein knows not to mess with a good thing.  But it's nice to see that a busy bee who juggles ownership of three restaurants, her own TV show, a consultancy with Delta, and a leadership role with nonprofit Common Threads is ... More >>

Miami Chefs Offer Their Takes On "The Best Thing I Ever Ate"

Foodnetwork.comOur turn!Giada, Guy, Bobby and friends are sounding off on the favorite things they've eaten -- EVER, EVER -- on a new Food Network special called "The Best Thing I Ever Ate."  This week's episodes are about fried food and BBQ.  So it got us thinking...  What unmatched ... More >>

Patrick Bachelier, a Gary's Seafood Salesman, Talks High Quality Fish Product

image via GarySeafood.comCold....so cold Patrick Bachelier sells fresh, high quality seafood and specialty products to some of the finest, quality minded chefs in South Florida, like Michelle Bernstein. He is the tri-county and Caribbean salesman for Gary's Seafood, an Orlando company that has been ... More >>

Miami's Dining Scene Goes Big League

In 2008, our city's gastronomic curve trended sharply upward.

Restaurant Preview 2

Michelle Bernstein's Sra. Martinez will be debuting this Monday in the  Design District. On Tuesday the Wynwood hood, which has been quiet as an empty canvas concerning food, will finally have a restaurant: Joey's, a contemporary Italian café at 2506 N.W. 2nd Avenue. Developer Joey Goldman and ... More >>

Bernstein at the Omphoy?

New Times Iron Fork at the Miami Science Museum

Doug Rodriguez Is Back

New Latin cuisine moves to the Beach.

Foie Wars

Force-feeding amounts to either animal farming or grotesque torture, but do our chefs give a duck?

The Skinny on Social

Darn good food that’s darn good for you

Never, or Then?

The chief cuts loose, Michy’s opens, Carmel Ophir and La Gata rock on

Season Opener Part II: The Comeback Kids

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

Michelle Bernstein

Personal Best

BEST RESTAURANT IN COCONUT GROVE

Bizcaya Grill

Miamian Beauty

Naked breasts and rose petals in the name of WTC relief

Who's Cooking?

Expendable chefs are the order of the day

Dish TV

Karetnick is convincing in this miniseries

Best Restaurant When Someone Else Is Paying

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Side Dish

Gossip for foodies

Catch a Rising Star

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