"Coming soon," reads the website of Mai Tardi, which two months ago took over the former Brosia space in the Design District. The only other... More >>
Here are two questions to ponder: Is Miami ready for the Urbanite Bistro? And is the Urbanite Bistro ready for Miami? After dining at the new... More >>
It has long been an aphorism of the food world: Those who can't cook, cater. Snarky, yes, but it is generally true that chefs of catering firms... More >>
Eating at Balans is like buying clothes at the Gap. It's like reading a novel by John Grisham. It's like being a Blue Dog Democrat. In a word:... More >>
At one end of a strip mall on NE 125th Street, David Dodge sells a shoe called the Z-Coil, which has a spring in each heel. It cushions every... More >>
The world's best pizza is found just outside Oliena, a dusty mountain town in central Sardinia. Pies there get flung into weathered wood-burning... More >>
"It is Brazil's time," an exuberant President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva exclaimed when his country won the bid to host the 2016 Olympics. A rowdy... More >>
The setting is ancient, but the cuisine is firmly anchored in the here and now — and, wow, is it good.
By Lee Klein,
October 08, 2009
The old-world opulence of Palme d'Or seems especially anachronistic in the patently lax 21st Century. The 70-seat space, a restored homage to the... More >>
Less is more is a sound gastronomic principle, and certainly one the dining public has been eager to embrace. Sane portions, light sauces, bright... More >>
Bond Trisransri, whose parents started the Sushi Rock restaurants on South Beach and Las Olas Boulevard, projects precisely the image one might... More >>
Dinner here is simply an elegant, enjoyable experience.
By Lee Klein,
September 17, 2009
From time to time, Alice Waters would cook dinner for friends in her Berkeley home. These gatherings garnered enough exuberant word-of-mouth that... More >>
This Cantonese cuisine impresses despite the tired décor.
By Lee Klein,
September 10, 2009
Every evening, thousands of local foodies head to their respective rooftops and issue a plaintive wail that resounds and echoes forth into the... More >>
Much of Indian Palate's cuisine warrants praise. Will it be enough to fill seats at the Coral Gables eatery?
By Lee Klein,
September 03, 2009
There are two ways to unveil a new restaurant: with grand fanfare, hoping to fill the rafters from day one, or oh-so softly, in order to iron... More >>
Compare these two top Sunday-morning miracle makers.
By Jackie Sayet,
August 27, 2009
Brunch is the ultimate expression of excess, and die-hard brunchers are a fiercely loyal group. They protect their turf like Sarah Palin guards... More >>
Many years ago, while interviewing for a position as counterman at the New York Delicatessen in Boulder, Colorado, I claimed former employment at... More >>
Consider this sushi joint a neat place for a drink and really great bar snacks.
By Lee Klein,
August 13, 2009
If every South Beach sushi joint were laid side by side, the resultant restaurant row would stretch from one end of the district to the other.... More >>
Red the Steakhouse comes to us from Cleveland, where it has been known as a reputable and popular restaurant since 2004. For its first foray... More >>
This brassy 24-hour eatery is just what we needed.
By Lee Klein,
July 30, 2009
Miami isn't wanting for decent bistros. Even areas that have little to gush over gastronomically can boast good neighborhood French fare (Coconut... More >>
Michael Psilakis (see-LAH-kees), the self-trained, 39-year-old chef behind the new Eos at Viceroy Miami, grew up in a Greek Orthodox household in... More >>
It's been here, it's been there, but this Greek place is still neither here nor there.
By Lee Klein,
July 16, 2009
Liza and Gennaro "Gigi" Meoli's first restaurant, Ouzo's Greek Taverna, drew plenty of patrons and praise when it opened off Normandy Circle in... More >>
Hakkasan is drop-dead gorgeous, a dusky Oriental lair of dining alcoves seductively lighted by Chinese lanterns and separated by walnut and teak... More >>
Sometimes, especially in a pinch, a taco is just a taco.
By Lee Klein,
June 18, 2009
Among those who take their ethnic restaurants seriously, ambiance, service, and even taste of the food take back seats to how closely the meals... More >>
Neftali "Nifty" Medina opens the door to a spare bedroom, which he calls the "man cave," in his modest Southwest Dade house. The skinny, goateed 30-year-old squeezes between standing guitars… More >>
Arwen Lehman took her first swig of beer in tenth grade. It was love at first sip. After a little fling with Rolling Rock, she eventually hooked up with the… More >>
For years, Miami seemed to be the only major American city without a big-time beer maker. But that changed last month, when Schnebly Redland's Winery & Brewery finished building its… More >>
For years, craft beer has flooded New England and California. Finally, Miami is coming around to the craze, transforming from a snobby cocktail city to a land of free-flowing suds.
Homebrewers… More >>
Enter a nondescript warehouse near the junction of the Palmetto Expressway and Bird Road and you'll smell something like supercharged cream of wheat. Move in a few steps and you'll… More >>
7000 B.C. Evidence of a fermented beverage made of rice and fruit was found in China. The rice was most likely prepared for fermentation by mastication of malt.
3500 B.C. Earliest… More >>
