Gotham Steak’s Cote De Boeuf is a Pricey Five-Pound Meal

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.Were you born with a platinum spoon in your mouth and an American Express Centurion card in your pocket?Do you live in a mansion only slightly smaller than…

Mercadito Offers All-You-Can-Eat (and Drink) Brunch

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.All-you-can-eat meals are so pre-recession. In times like these, when the economy sucks Chevrolets through a straw and the future looks as bright as the bottom of an…

Mia at Biscayne Debuts New Summer Bar Menu

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.As if you couldn’t tell by the blast furnace heat and humidity that can suck your soul through a straw, summer in South Florida is on us like…

Key Largo Conch House Pairs Wines and Desserts

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.An evening to chill in the Keys, a quintet of delectable desserts, each paired with a different dessert wine… how bad can that be?Treat your sweetheart and your…

Smoke’t Serves Half-Price Drinks, Appetizers

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.With the Health Police out in full force these days, about the only thing you can smoke anymore is meat.Luckily, you can still drink your troubles away while…

The Restaurant at the Setai Offers Summer Prix Fixe Menu

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.​They’ve been busy over at the Restaurant at the Setai, reworking the menu, adding a weekly “Summer at the Setai” prix fixe menu and wine specials, and gearing…

Sra. Martinez Serves Barbecue for the Summer

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.Nothing says summer in South Florida like heat, humidity and hurrica –Scratch that. Too depressing.Nothing says summer in South Florida like barbecue. (Editor’s note: Much better.) So to…

La Marea Teaches Dad the Art of the Grill

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.”Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” So goes the old…

Getting High at The Hotel’s Spire Bar & Lounge

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’s not easy getting high in South Beach. (And put away the crack pipe. That’s not what we’re talking about.) What we are talking about are public…

Mercadito Taqueria Opens in Midtown Miami

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.Before “fast food” meant a tasteless disc of pulverized cow between two pieces of soft cardboard there was the taco. Cheap, nourishing, able to accommodate just about any…

Drink Deals at Philippe and Raleigh Hotel

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.Call it Philippe’s “power hour” or the Raleigh’s “Seven at the Raleigh.” But whatever you call it, call it a good deal on swell drinks and bar bites…

Sawa in Coral Gables Brings Food and Design Closer Together

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.When Ramzi Zahr named his new restaurant Sawa (“together”), he wasn’t kidding. Appearing together on the menu of the sleek eatery, on the second floor of Coral Gables’…

db Bistro Moderne Opening Soon in J.W. Marriott Marquis

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.There are celebrity chefs (Hellooo, Emeril), then there are celebrity chefs.At the top of the list in that second category is Daniel Boulud, whose celebrity has never gotten…

The Scoop on Cavalli Supper Club

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.A “new and redefined dining and nightlife experience in Aventura.”Can such a thing be?Well, you can find out at the new Cavalli Supper Club, which promises “sexy cuisine,”…

Kourtney, Khloe Kardashian Dine at DeVito South Beach

In case you were busy doing something really important–you know, healing the sick, raising the dead, weaving your belly button lint into a throw rug–you may have missed another pair of pouty-lipped, self-reverential girlbots strutting their cosmetically enhanced stuff on South Beach. I mean, how many grains of sand are…

The Scoop on South Miami’s 72nd Bar & Grill

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.72nd Bar & Grill isn’t the 72nd moderately priced, neighborhoody bar and grill to open in Miami since the Great Recession took a blowtorch to upscale dining establishments…

The Scoop on Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill in Midtown

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.If one kitchen is good, are three kitchens three times better? One way to find out is to swing by the new Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, 4,200 square…

Tomorrow: Taste of the Garden at Miami Beach Botanical Garden

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.For a taste of the garden, head for Miami Beach Botanical Garden.No, you won’t be munching on the orchids, bromeliads, and assorted tropical and subtropical plants that bloom all…

The Scoop: Angelique Euro Café in Coral Gables

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.No question, Europeans know how to live. Late nights, later mornings. Long lunches, longer vacations. Good wine, good food; relax and enjoy life. Let someone else put his…

The Scoop on SoFi’s Bliss Burger Bistro

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.If you find your bliss in burgers, you need to find Bliss Burger Bistro. The newly debuted SoFi patty purveyor takes over the space of the old Café…

Zushi Flirt: Open Two Weeks at the Regent/Z on SoBe

If food really is the new sex, then sushi is the new foreplay. And Zushi Flirt is the new cathouse. The SoBe outpost of the suburban New Jersey original debuted in the airy, gauzy breezeway of the Z Ocean, née Regent, Hotel, a space previously the outdoors-ish area of Table…