Surfside

Josh's Deli Scores Small Business Grant, Launches Donuts

Josh's Deli received the Mom and Pop Small Business Grant from Miami-Dade county yesterday. The grant, which provides financial assistance to for-profit small businesses, awards different sums to each grantee. The Surfside deli, known for its house-cured meats and homespun eats, was granted $2,500. ... More >>

Five Places to Get Brunch in Miami for $30 or Less

Plenty of restaurants in Miami serve a fantastic brunch spread -- but most of them are expensive. And let's face it: Not all of us are doctors and lawyers who can afford a $65 Sunday brunch at Edge or even a $45 brunch at La Gloutonnerie. Racking up a bill of 85 bucks a person isn't exactly pleasan ... More >>

Miami Restaurants Make Their Own Bacon

Seven Best New Restaurants of 2012 In Miami

If you were to look back at the restaurants openings of 2012 in Miami, you might notice a bit of a trend. Our epicurean vista has evolved and diversified. We are now home to more mid-priced, chef-driven eateries: Surfside gained a deli; South Beach has a ceviche joint run by a James Beard nominee; ... More >>

Miami's Five Best Offal Dishes for Halloween

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Instead of bringing some insipid blood-covered body part ... More >>

Chow Down Grill to Close, Brewhouse Will Take Its Place

Alton Road's Chow Down Grill will be closing up shop within a month. But owner and chef, Josh Marcus, has plans to keep the space for a new concept called Brewhouse. The concept shift will center around an extensive beer selection and a gastropub-style menu. Half of the restaurant's tables will b ... More >>

Seven Signs Miami Is The Fakest City in America

Only in Miami could our inboxes be flooded with press releases like this Wednesday's police announcement: "Clandestine Dentist Arrested." Oh, thank God, you say. Then you think, what kind of a city has fake dentists? I mean, how hard can it be to graduate from dental school?But this is Miami, quite ... More >>

Heat Fans Go Nuts As LeBron, Wade and Bosh Clinch A Title (Video)

All across the Magic City this Thursday night, pots are getting wrecked by spoons, more car horns are getting leaned on than rush hour on the Dolphin and every half-decent bar is passing around shots of Jameson in honor of Bron Bron. Your Miami Heat are 2012 NBA Champions. We'll keep this post ... More >>

CSI: Miami is Dead, But Here Are Ten Other Shows That Need Miami Spinoffs

Did you hear the news? CSI: Miami has been canceled. Dramatically remove your sunglasses in silence to pay your respects.The series' execution puts a temporary end to one of our favorite Hollywood hack practices: take a successful movie or television show, and for a lazy sequel or spin-off transport ... More >>

Miami's best blogs: Honorable mention

Chow Down Grill, Morgans open in South Beach

View a slide show of Morgans.

Surfside Town Attorney Lynn Dannheisser's Lawyer/Boyfriend Rewrites New Times Article

​In March, Riptide wrote about Surfside Town Attorney Lynn Dannheisser's successful recommendation of her boyfriend, Gerald Houlihan, for additional legal work for the town. Dannheisser has since compared New Times -- and two Surfside blogs -- to the KKK. We recently received a letter from H ... More >>

Telmo Ricardo Hurtado, 'Butcher of the Andes,' Finally On Trial In Peru For 1985 Massacre

Hurtado in the 1980s, when he was an officer in the Peruvian military.​For nearly five years, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado lived a quiet life in sleepy Surfside, moving between low-rent apartments just off Collins Avenue with his mom and his younger brother. Neighbors knew him as a quiet, middle-aged Per ... More >>

Bad Surfside cop Woodward Brooks finally gets busted

Surfside Cop Should Have Lost His Badge a Long Time Ago

​Woodward Brooks finally lost his badge for his bad cop behavior. This past February 3, the 46-year-old lawman was kicked off the Surfside Police force following his arrest on three felony counts of official misconduct, grand theft, and filing a fraudulent insurance claim.This is the second time t ... More >>

Baby Got Fatback!

Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?

Cop Land Revisited

A tiny town in North Dade has some kinda police force.

Election Day: We See It But We Don't Believe It: Placid Polls

Boom & Bust, Part 3

In Liberty City, renters suffer more than perhaps anyone else from the foreclosure crisis.

Peruvian Chill

It's not Adriana Restaurant's service that brings in the crowds, but the food does the job.

Grass Chef Heads For Greener Pastures

Grass Chef Heads For Greener Pastures

Miami Restaurant News: Ins & Outs

Miami Restaurant News: Ins & Outs

His Satanic Majesty's Request

Close down every church so the true church can begin.

Out of Africa

Malika Oufkir, who spent decades unfairly imprisoned, just wants her son here. Why won’t our government allow it?

Quiet, Please

Loud music negates conversation in SoFla clubs

No News Is Bad News

You knew local TV newscasts were lame, you just didn't know how lame

Letters from the Issue of April 3, 2003

Second Annual Flapjack Flip-Off

This year's contest expands to seven cake contenders!

Letters from the Issue of March 21, 2002

The heartless sea claimed the Fantome and crew

Best Literary Lunch

Sheldon's Drugs

Side Dish

The next Lincoln Road and more

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of May 25, 2000

Best Promoter Of Cultural Diversity

John de Leon

Elian Nation

Scenes from a splintered city

Swing's Last Whirl

The End of Summer Swing Dance Party

Your Pain Is His Pain

Night & Day

July 1 - 7, 1999

Drive-by Architecture

Letters

Mr. Basketball

Dozens of pro hoops pioneers retired to South Florida, destined to grow old and die in obscurity. Not if Jack Shaber has anything to say about it.

Letters

The Sands of Time

Where's the Beach?

The true story behind the beach erosion explosion is politics as usual

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

Swelter 46

Welcome to Indian Creek Village.

Now Leave. The police chief is under investigation. The village manager is in denial. The residents don't care to comment. And you can't afford to live there.

Automatic Transgression

The penalty for selling an unregistered World War II Sten gun? In this case it might be six months of house arrest, three years of probation, and one $36,000 Turbo Z.