Crank up your appetite for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival (Feb. 24 to 27) by drooling over the food of one of Miami’s hottest chefs at one of the final cooking demos at the Coral Gables Whole Foods Market. Kris Wessel of Red Lightwill be cooking up his…
Founded in 1856, Cousino-Macul is Chile’s oldest wineries still in family hands, run by the sixth-generation descendents of Matias Cousino. Come February 3, South Miami’s Deli Lane will offer a food-wine pairing with Cousino-Macul’s wines for the princely sum of $14.95 in advance, $16.95 at the door. Unless you grab…
Crank up your appetite for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival (Feb. 24 to 27) by drooling over the food of one of Miami’s hottest chefs at one of the final cooking demos at the Coral Gables Whole Foods Market. Chef Sean Brasel of Meat Market will be cooking…
There’s more to food in Key West than fried shrimp and fish sammies. Just how much more you can find out at the 17th annual Master Chefs Classic, held at 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Westin Key West Resort & Marina Pier. Chefs from all over the Southernmost City…
Outfit your kitchen for cheap and get purchasing advice from people who actually know what they’re talking about at the “Everything But the Kitchen Sink” garage sale held by the Miami chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier. All kinds of used equipment is up for grabs, from mixers and blenders to…
The holidays may be over the but the credit card bills and 10 extra pounds remain. If you’re dead broke and fat, you’re pretty much SOL. . . except at the South Beach Whole Foods Market, where chef Sheryn Abalos of the vegan and raw food restaurant, T.H.R.I.V.E. will be…
New look + new chef + new menu = grand opening party for W Wine Bistro. On Saturday the reconstituted Design District wine bar will celebrate all that’s new—like Moorish-style pinchos with cilantro-peanut dip and lime-coconut shrimp with red curry sauce from chef Alvaro del Busto—with DJ Luv. Get a…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.It may seem hard to believe now but there once was a time when cars had fins, when telephones had rotors and when China Grill was the hippest…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Don’t want to cook for the holidays but don’t want to eat out either? Epicure Markets in Miami Beach and Sunny Isles Beach are offering three different holiday…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Do you have to be truly lucky to get you and Mr./Ms. Other a three-course meal for $35 a person at one of downtown Miami’s chichi new eateries?Not…
Get wired for a good cause at the Italian “tea” slated for Saturday afternoon at the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove. The swanky, Italian villa-style lobby will be the site of an afternoon soiree featuring an espresso bar and snacky-type foods from mini pizzas and panini to cookies and gelato, all to…
No, not the jolly old fat man, the guy at the reservations desk. Give yourself the present of not having to cook. But you’d better make those reservations soon, because once the books are full even St. Nick himself won’t be able to get you a table. At Chef Allen’s…
The Restaurant at the Setai aims to please both carnivorous and vegetarian holiday revelers with a four-course Christmas Eve menu. From 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. meat eaters can tear into sausage-stuffed turkey or Peking duck salad for $85 per person, while veg-heads get dishes ranging from pumpkin veloute to clay-pot…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Party like an A-lister at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar, where on Thursday, the uber-swanky watering hole with its black vinyl ceiling and hand-cut Parisian crystal lamps plays…
If you’re one of those people who can actually haul their ass out of bed and out of the house Sunday morning, you might want to check out the new Sunday brunch at Sra. Martinez. From 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Michelle Bernstein’s Design District restaurant will plate up weekend…
If you’re re really in love, you’d take your sweetheart out for a swanky dinner at a swell restaurant, like stone crab at some place on the beach, instead of trying to slide by with the trinket that came with your Happy Meal at the local McFranchise. Factor in the…
It’s not too early to snag one of 300 tickets to the sixth annual Taste of the Garden, an outdoor food-fest featuring 20 of SoFla’s best restaurants with wines to match, all to benefit the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. In addition to eating and drinking there’s a silent auction offering…
He’s making a list and checking it twice to see if you made rezzies for the Christmas Eve blowout at The Water Club in North Miami Beach. The sprawling waterfront eatery and club, with local top toque Andrea Curto-Randazzo at the stoves, is inviting you to be naughty or nice…
Party like an A-lister at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar, when the uber-swanky watering hole with its black vinyl ceiling and hand-cut Parisian crystal lamps plays host to the Debbie Orta Quintet, one of the local jazz scene’s most acclaimed and accomplished groups. The music starts at 8:30 p.m. and…
Think roots in the city and the image of some huge-ass weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk probably comes to mind. Think Roots in the City Farmers Market and the image of wholesome, locally grown food made available to folks not born with an American Express Centurion…
At La Marea, in the über-luxe Tides South Beach, the restaurant’s Dinner With Friends series continues with guest chefs Giancarla Bodoni of Escopazzo and Gabriel Fenton of Bourbon Steak preparing five-course meals for a select group of 20 to benefit Common Threads, which teaches kids how to cook and eat…
At the Whole Foods in Coral Gables, you have one last chance this year to check out the kitchen action of one of our hot local chefs to be featured at the 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Pastry chef supreme Hedy Goldsmith of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink…
