Nothing says summer in Miami better than mangos. Year after year, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden celebrates the rich variety of the so-called king of fruit with the annual Mango Festival. Lather up in SPF lotion and head over to the garden on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10, when…

Sample the drinking man’s Mediterranean diet at Aventura’s Wine & Spirits Warehouse, where Saturday, June 25, from 6 to 9 p.m., they’ll taste wines from Italy, Spain, France, and Greece, as well as Bohemio rums, Prosecco, flavored sodas, Greek olive oil, and balsamic vinegar from the balsamic capital of the…

Spit in the eye of that snobby sommelier at Chez L’Attitude and intimidate your friends with your new-found wine knowledge by taking the Wine Appreciation Fundamentals course offered by the Wine University of Miami. Learn how to taste like a pro, how to pair wine with food, how to read…

It’s alive! It’s alive! Your food that is. Or at least it’s raw. Learn how to, uh, uncook raw foods at the South Beach Whole Foods Market Tuesday, June 28. “Healthy-eating specialist” Jordan Wolfe will conduct the free session, which will run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign up at…

Combine stunning views of Biscayne Bay at one of Miami swankiest hotels with the last day of the workweek and ridiculously inexpensive mixological cocktails and multiculti munchies, and you’ve got an evening that should make anybody happy. That’s the new happy hour at Café Sambal at the way-luxe Mandarin Oriental,…

More than 40 wines from all over the world, plus gin, single-malt Scotch, and haute hors d’oeuvres make up the Gourmet Experience at the Crown Wine & Spirits in Pinecrest. From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, they’ll pour samples of a half-dozen sparkling wines, as well as reds such as…

Take everybody’s favorite fowl (chicken), prepare it everybody’s favorite way (fried) and serve it in everybody’s favorite manner (all you can eat) and you’ve got unrestrained gluttony. Well, yes. But you’ve also got the third annual summertime all you can eat fried chicken feast at “>Michy’s. At dinner every Wednesday…

Tourist season might be over, but grilling season is here in full force, so take the grrr out of grill with a few tips from one of Miami’s savviest chefs. Jonathan McCann of Atrio Restaurant in Miami’s Conrad Hotel will pass on recipes for grilling shrimp, mahi-mahi, beef, and pork,…

Get the goods from chef Paula DaSilva of hot-hot-hot 1500 Degrees at an interactive culinary demo and luncheon set for Saturday, June 18, at Coral Gables’ historic Biltmore Hotel. From noon to 2 p.m., you can sip Champagne de Castellane Brut Rosé while DaSilva prepares whitewater clams with chorizo and…

You might think every day is a bacchanalia in the Southernmost city in the United States, but there actually is an official Key West Bacchanalia, an orgy of good food and strong drink that takes place Thursday through Sunday, June 12, at venues all over town. Rum and gin tastings,…

Stressed? Don’t distress, de-stress. Treat your honey to at least one night’s freedom from the soul-numbing pressure of the daily grind at The Palms Hotel & Spa’s Sip ‘n’ Spa Thursdays. The posh Miami Beach resort is offering 50-percent off all spa and salon treatments from 1 to 9 p.m…

If you’ve seen the wine prices in some of our tony local restaurants, the words highway robbery, extortionate, and unconscionable probably come to mind. So beginning this Wednesday, June 1, and continuing every Wednesday throughout June, megameatery Gotham Steak at the luxe Fontainebleau Miami Beach is offering what it calls…

Check out the best tables in the Gables during Coral Gables Restaurant Week, actually two weeks, from Monday, June 6, to Sunday, June 19. More than two dozen local restaurants will offer special prix fixe lunch and/or dinner menus priced in the low to mid-$20 range for lunch and mid-$30…

The tiny country of Belgium is certainly known for its chocolate and waffles. But mostly it’s known for its beer, which was full of flavor, character, and exotic infusions when American brewski was nothing but fizzy dishwater. So to celebrate the goodness of Belgium suds and to benefit the South…

Summer heat and humidity: bad. Summer fruit: good. Rare tropical fruit samples at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival: even better. There are local wines and food too, plus the chance to nibble on fruititarian delicacies that our nontropical countrymen can only dream about. Just cruise down to Homestead’s Fruit &…

Worshipping at the church of wretched gastronomic excess has just gotten easier with the debut of Sunday brunch at Vida American brasserie at way over the top Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Running from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at $59 for adults and half that for the kiddies, the menu is…

Ten-hut! For-ward, march! OK, recruits, the Gables’ ultraposh Biltmore Hotel doesn’t host that kind of boot camp — more like a Christian Louboutin camp for aspiring foodies. It’s the hotel’s culinary boot camp: three days of intensive instruction in how to feed yourself like a chef instead of a pusher…

You might think every day is a bacchanalia in the southernmost city in the continental United States, but there actually is an official Key West Bacchanalia, an orgy of good food and strong drink that takes place Thursday, May 26, through Sunday, June 12, at venues all over town. Rum…

More than 50 wines, hors d’oeuvres, cigars, a souvenir wine glass, and the chance to talk to certified cork dorks will all be at one place this Wednesday. From 6 to 8 p.m., Doral’s ABC Fine Wine & Spirits will host its Welcome to Wine Country bash. It’ll cost you…

A free cooking class by chef Alejandro Piñero of midtown Miami’s farm-to-table Sustain Restaurant + Bar is on the schedule of Coral Gables’ Whole Foods Market for Wednesday. The demo will begin at 7 p.m. and feature seasonally inspired dishes assembled from locally sourced ingredients. And you get to taste…

In the olden days—you know, several million years ago—a cheap date was hanging out on the front porch, drinking lemonade and dreaming about getting to third base. Nowadays you probably can’t afford a real front porch, but a (relatively) cheap date can still be had at 660 at the Angler’s,…

Make the best of hump day with an international selection of wines and low-priced tapas at the Wine Shoppe, where Wednesday, May 18, and every Wednesday beginning at 5:30 p.m., the Miami purveyor of fine wine and gourmet foods gives reason to celebrate getting halfway through the workweek. Nibble on…