Recession Busters Recent articles have explored some of the revenue-enhancing measures that restaurateurs have undertaken to counter rising food costs —...
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By Lee Klein
Published: July 03, 2008
Still Lazy After All These Years Baleen was an instant hit when it debuted at the Grove Isle Hotel & Spa in March 1999, and for good reason: The heavenly outdoor patio, with...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 26, 2008
Raw Deal If vegans are a "Hezbollah-like splinter faction" of the vegetarian movement, as Anthony Bourdain once wrote, then raw foodists would be that...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 19, 2008
Kobe Raises the Steaks Jeffrey Chodorow, head of the China Grill Management restaurant empire, has always brought a Ziegfeld Zeitgeist to the table. Sure, he hopes...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 12, 2008
Flapjack Flip-Off VIII In the spirit of this pugnacious presidential primary season, we proudly present a special Kitchen Sink Edition of the eighth annual Flapjack...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 05, 2008
Value Veal Ristorante Fratelli Milano's umbrella-shaded tables are tightly clustered together on pinched, pedestrian-clogged SE First Street. Two dozen...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 29, 2008
Andú Lounges The new Andú's retro-futuristic design dares to depart from the restaurant world's recent tilt toward timid, if tasteful, taupe-toned...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 22, 2008
Mint Leaf Makes Debut A cacophony of chatter and clatter greets diners as they enter Mint Leaf, which has sprouted in the spot once occupied by Darbar Indian...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 15, 2008
The Unreal Deal Food is fashion: Halter tops and haute French one day, bling and sushi the next. American-Chinese restaurants began to fall from favor about the...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 08, 2008
Macho Tacos "De sus amigos de 'Taco Loco,'" reads the sign over the storefront window at Maya Grill. The Mexican restaurant opened six months ago on West...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 01, 2008
Tasty Morsels Miamians in the mood for Mexican in other corners of the county might consider these solid south-of-the-border joints:
Burritos Grill...
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Published: May 01, 2008
Viva Vita! When a couple dined at a high-end establishment in the chivalrous days of yore, it was not unusual for the gentleman to be handed a menu with...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 24, 2008
Tasty Morsels Mediterranean cuisine is the toast of South Beach. Over the past few years, more than a half-dozen hoity-toity restaurants have opened, serving...
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Published: April 24, 2008
Too Will Do Eleven years ago, a pair of Danish chefs, Jan Jorgensen and Soren Bredahl, opened Two Chefs restaurant in South Miami. Bredahl returned to his...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 17, 2008
Tasty Morsels North Miami isn't exactly a hotbed of cuisine, but a short ride up the Biscayne corridor does yield a couple of gems:
North One 10
Cream-colored...
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Published: April 17, 2008
Doug Rodriguez Is Back Michelle Bernstein and Doug Rodriguez were recently announced as nominees for the James Beard Foundation's best chef in the south award. The...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 10, 2008
Tasty Morsels If you feel funny about plunking down big bucks for oxtail and plantains gussied up in the guise of Nuevo Latino, here are a couple of viejo...
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Published: April 10, 2008
Low-Key Glee Something seemed amiss as soon as we entered Jason's at the Harrison. The vaguely Vegas room, with black-and-white tiger-skin motif and thumping...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 03, 2008
Greek to Miami The intersection of 71st Street and Rue Vendome in Miami Beach is what many would call a "cursed location" for restaurants. The list of victims...
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By Lee Klein
Published: March 27, 2008
Pleasure and Pain Sake Room Sushi Lounge is a chic little restaurant that tries very hard to please ... when it's not trying almost as hard to annoy.
On one hand,...
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By Bill Citara
Published: March 27, 2008
Peruvian Chill Does bad service negate good food? Not necessarily. Many restaurant recommendations come riddled with caveats explaining the place isn't much to...
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By Lee Klein
Published: March 20, 2008
Topnotch Nosh It's said that Jewish history, along with the religious holidays that celebrate it, can be summed up in three sentences: They tried to kill us....
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By Pamela Robin Brandt
Published: March 20, 2008
Chain Reaction Mary Brickell Village still isn't much of a village, with many of the storefronts as empty as the concept of a downtown urban mall. Think of it...
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By Lee Klein
Published: March 13, 2008
Down the Middle If you go by the menus of the Italian restaurants in our little town, you can only conclude that one of the world's most glorious and diverse...
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By Bill Citara
Published: March 13, 2008
Burgers and Pies The most utterly predictable comment from a New Yorker in a Miami pizzeria: "It's not like a New York slice." Culprits often cited are humidity,...
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By Lee Klein
Published: March 06, 2008