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Ritz-Carlton South Beach Executive Chef Bernd Schmitt Focuses On Quality Ingredients

Ritz Carlton​Executive chef Bernd Schmitt recently joined SoBe's Ritz-Carlton as the voice behind the hotel's entire culinary enterprise -- from in-room dining to the banquet program, to Bistro One LR, DiLido Beach Club, and the Lapidus Lounge.We sat down with Chef Schmitt to find out what his pla ... More >>

Tequila Dinners at Cantina Beach Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne

All photos by Laine Doss The evening starts with Margaritas and continues with tequila pairings.​Though most restaurants would be happy to be known as a restaurant at a luxury beachfront hotel property, Cantina Beach goes beyond the call of duty. The restaurant offers a collection of 85 d ... More >>

Crispy Halloumi Caprese With Charred Tomato Sauce: A Recipe From Chef Josh Becker

Ritz-Carlton Chef Josh Becker shares his crispy halloumi recipe with Miami New Times readers​We recently interviewed Chef Josh Becker at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach's DiLido Beach Club restaurant. If you missed the interview, catch it here and here.Chef Becker shared his recipe for crispy ... More >>

Miguel Pando, the Ritz-Carlton's Tanning Butler, Has Miami's Sexiest Job

Laine Doss Tanning Butler Miguel Pando with his tools of the trade.​Twenty-year-old Miguel Pando is the world's only tanning butler. His job? To stroll around the Ritz-Carlton South Beach pool and beach and offer tanning supplies to guests. Oh, and to also apply the tanning lotion on hard t ... More >>

HDNet's Drinking Made Easy Hits South Florida November 10

Melissa Schilling Zane Lamprey courtesy of HDNet​Just when you thought there couldn't be another show about people gallivanting around the country eating and drinking, along comes Drinking Made Easy, a 24-episode show that travels the country in search of local libations and tippling tradit ... More >>

Bosh and Wade Have Dinner Date While Riley Woos LeBron With Rings

via Bosh's Twitter​Dwyane Wade joined Chris Bosh for a dinner date last night in Chicago. Whenever one of our "friends" has a successful date, we want to know one thing, and this is no exception: Will it lead to getting undressed with each other... in the AAA locker room and then putting on matchi ... More >>

Ritz Carlton Seeks Tanning Butler; Jersey Shore Not Welcome to Apply

courtesy of the RitzToken tanning butler Here is a job that exists only in Miami: tanning butler. And the Ritz Carlton South Beach has lost theirs. Boo hoo.But that's good news for the masses of sexy, needy unemployeds currently lollygagging in our beaches. The hotel is looking for a new one. Only m ... More >>

Cayman Cookout Chef Interview: Host Eric Ripert Shares How to Eat Local On-Island, Proves Chivalry is not Dead

If you have your pointer finger on the pulse of the global food community and its star chefs, you would know this past weekend was the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman's second annual Cayman Cookout.  We're speaking of the island rendezvous of illustrious professional cooks including Jose Andrés, Da ... More >>

Interview with Willis Loughhead, Part One

Photo by Peter TaylorWe lost Willis to NY​Willis Loughhead's first South Florida gig was 14 years ago at the Palm Grill (locations in Key West and North Miami). Most locals, however, will remember him from when he was top toque at Tantra (1999 to 2002) and from when he ran Bizcaya at The Ritz-Carl ... More >>

Ritz Carlton South Beach New Year's Eve Party, No Cover, Oceanside

Jacob KatelBar top, South Beach.​New Year's Eve is not only a full moon, but a blue moon too. A blue moon is an extra full moon, we already had one December 2, that only occurs once every few years from the accumulation of the calendar year's excess days against the lunar cycle.The Ritz Carlton So ... More >>

A Dozen New Year's Eve Scenes For Under $100

In alphabetical order:8 oz. Burger Bar: New Year's Eve After Party at 1:00 a.m. with DJ. Open all night, weekend brunch debuting 9:00 a.m. New Year's Day. 305.397.8246, No cover, $5 cocktail and beer specials.  Atrio/Level 25 at the Conrad Hilton: Four course dinner, champagne, open bar all nig ... More >>

Ten Best Chefs To Leave Miami Over The Past Decade

Alphabetically except for the last:Alvaro Beade of Ideas Restaurant. His contemporary take on the cuisine of Castilla y León was exquisite. Not sure where he is now.Carmen Gonzalez of Carmen's The Restaurant. She merged modern American cuisine with traditional Puerto Rican. Then her eponymous resta ... More >>

These Keys Play Music

New Mandolin Bistro, New Look for DiLido, New Hours for Petit Rouge, New Location for Burger n' Beer

​Mandolin Set To Play Turkish/Greek CuisineIt is a white-washed 1940's house with blue trimmed windows. There are bougainvillea boasting bright colors, greek oil canisters turned into flower vases, traditional taverna chairs at wooden tables beneath a lantern-lit tree. Mandolin Aegean Bistro, serv ... More >>

Utopia, Party of Six

Tired of Art Basel? Five Suggestions for a Culture-less Weekend Getaway!

​Art Basel has a funny way of making us feel like we're outsiders in our own town. Traffic is horrible. Parking even moreso. The line at your favorite Cuban restaurant (even if that happens to be Pollo Tropical) gets filled with hoity-toity Europeans trying to work in a little "authentic Miami exp ... More >>

Lowenstein Family Owes Big Bucks

Behind The Line at DiLido Beach Club on South Beach With Top Chef Jeff McInnis

Jacob Katel​ The Ritz Carlton South Beach's DiLido Beach Club (One Lincoln Road) is an oceanfront restaurant that serves food inspired by South Mediterranean and North African cuisine. Top Chef Jeff McInnis runs the kitchen. He is shown above filling up on liquid nitrogen. What could he possibly n ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch: Beer, Gluttony, Exercise, Burgers & Fries, and Miami Spice

Jacob KatelThe kitchen at Bistro One LR at the Ritz Carlton South Beach​Nothin' better than a weekend at the bottom of the map, long as there are no hurricanes. Somthing's brewin' off the coast of Africa though, so get ready. Here are some weekendish posts from some neighborhood food blogs.South F ... More >>

Weekly Wrapup: The Friday, Bitch I'mma Put You To Work

Jacob Katel​Verbal exchange of the week: Last night at Taste The Nations charity event at the Ritz Carlton on Key Biscayne, toward the end of the event, 9:43 p.m., I approach Chef Cindy Hutson of Ortanique, she's slidin' off the wine in her drinkin' glass. I mumble something about shooting the kit ... More >>

Norman Van Aken: "The Best Thing I Ever Ate"

Foodnetwork.com Our turn!Norman Van Aken, chef/owner of Norman's at the Ritz-Carlton, Orlando (and soon-to-be Norman's 180 in Coral Gables) A war might break out in the family if I decided on one barbecue dish, but I feel safe recalling a fried treasure.  We went up to Charleston, South Caro ... More >>

Wine Deals of the Week

TONIGHT: And every Monday night, DeVito's South Beach is offering 50 percent off all bottles of wine under $200. That's a solid deal. 305-531-0911.Blue Door at Delano will host a Joseph Phelps wine dinner starting at 7 p.m. The five-course meal features entrees such as banana-roasted lobster and rac ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalHere's a long lines at a job fair story. [Herald]This 18-year-old girl accidentally dragged a cop for eight blocks with her car, and now she's being charged with attempted murder. (ok, ok, maybe it wasn't accidental, but it didn't seeming like a premeditated dragging). [NBC6]Sunday: Storms. Nex ... More >>

Slideshow: Amstel Light Burger Bash at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach

Logan FazioTasty, tasty T-shirt.The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already in full swing, and last night, everyone's favorite quasi-cook and abbreviator, Rachel Ray, hosted the third annual Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Our cameras caught all the beefy action, i ... More >>

Beach Bummin’

It takes on a whole new meaning at the Ritz-Carlton.

Last Night: The Ritz Carlton's Wine Room and Scotch Bar

New Times was graciously invited to an evening of pampering and boozing last night courtesy of the Ritz-Cartlon Fort Lauderdale's (semi) new and much improved wine bar. And it went.... well, how do you think it went? We were pampered. We were boozed. It was an all around lovely evening, and I would ... More >>

Deisgn Miami/ is Mathematically the Best

When my mother dropped me off at Boy Scout camping trips she always joked with the troop leaders that her idea of camping involved staying at the Ritz-Carlton. My mom would laugh at her own joke while the khaki-clad men smiled politely. This year's Design Miami/ inhabits a tent that might actually ... More >>

Be Thankful for What You’ve Got

Turkey Day feasts for every budget.

A Zero for Cero?

Chow Down for Charity

The finest foods are at Taste of the Nation.

Click N' Burn

South Beach sizzles through your camera lens.

Woof

Take a razor to that dog.

Start Me Up

Kick off your week on a good foot

Whatever Mama Wants

There are events for every kind of mom today

Midnight Glimpse: Amadeus Bar

Dinner in Paradise Hosts its Best Chefs Yet

Mysterious Ways

Boom Goes Bust (Again)

"They didn’t even know it was a piece. They thought it was a real estate poster."

Crazy Delicious

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

New Year's Eve Listings

Worship Me

BEST NIGHTCLUB DISGUISED AS A HOTEL

The Ritz-Carlton's DiLido Beach Club

Side Dish

Billboardlive gets Barton G. 'd; Delray has everything under the sun

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Side Dish

The Loews kicks it up a notch

Side Dish

It's the dog days of summer, so thank God Talula is here

Stalking the Elusive White Asparagus

Once a year people go nuts for this veggie

Aria's High Notes

And minor notes too -- you make up the melody

The Dealmaker

Possibly the most influential person in Miami's ongoing facelift is a Paris-born, Toronto-raised workaholic named Edie Laquer

Borne to the Purple