“This place is more Mexican than Cabo,” said a woman who was dining with co-workers at Paquito’s Mexican Restaurant during a weekday lunch. Looking around at the colorful, over-the-top d�cor, I understood exactly what she meant. It was kitschy and charming, but like Cabo San Lucas, I feared it would…
Forget the South Beach Diet, we were on the seafood diet consisting of seeing seafood and eating it. This past Saturday, we joined seafood enthusiasts at Lummus Park to ring in the start of stone crab season at the Hess Select South Beach Seafood Festival. The sun was shining, the…
The quest for a good meatball and a great meatball sandwich is always on my mind. I long to say “That’s a good meatball” like Adam Sandler’s character proclaimed in The Wedding Singer. In the 1998 comedy, an old lady places one meatball in each of the wedding singer’s hands…
As a recent transplant from California, I have had to adjust a lot to Miami. East now means toward the ocean. The Magic City has outrageous crimes that make me wish Dexter were real. Lizards hang out everywhere, including my bathroom. And my kitchen is seriously lacking treats from my…
There are certain restaurants that you just feel like you are a part of, like the spots that feature “mi” in the name. Mi Colombia Cafeteria y Restaurante in North Beach is one of those places. The first time I visited, I parked in the rear and entered through the…
Chayhana Oasis in Sunny Isles is a surprisingly enchanting Uzbek restaurant only accessible from one side of 163rd St. After you arrive on the correct side of the street, you have to find the visitor parking ramp above and away from the restaurant, and ride down the elevator. Then you’ll…
Ah, mole, the sauce as personal and versatile as curry. It can come in an array of delicious colors: red, green, yellow or brown and most are said to have upwards of twenty ingredients. Discovering your perfect sauce is like finding your soulmate. At Los Magueyes they offer up two…
Oh the weather outside is frightful and if you are looking for soup that is delightful, pay a visit to Green Papaya in Miami Lakes. Between the rain and everyone seeming to have the start of a sore throat, come lunchtime we have been looking for one thing: soup as…
Of all the Los Verdes locations in South Florida, we ended up at the one in Miami Lakes next to a head shop. Walking into Los Verdes, the Miami-based chain specializing in fast food with a Colombian flair, we instantly felt like we were in a dorm room equipped with…
How would you like your meat cooked? We must admit, sometimes the best answer is: not at all. On a recent Sunday, we awoke wanting two things: stuffed cabbage and raw beef. Kabobji, the Lebanese restaurant in Sunny Isles, offered both in pretty tempting packages. We frequented this restaurant several…
When I was looking for lunch in Hialeah, several of the city’s best food writers pointed me in the direction of Molina’s Ranch Restaurant, a neighborhood favorite that serves consistent, high-quality Cuban food. The menu is so large that a local abogado advertises in it. So, where do you begin?…
There are some days where you just need a little extra tender, love and care. Wednesday, the day stupidly known as “Hump Day” gets it. You are equidistant from the comfort of the weekend. You know who else gets it? Mandolin Aegean Bistro that restaurant we deemed our favorite not…
Miamians are plain ol’ plantain-obsessed. We get them fried, double-fried, mashed, heaped atop our sushi — and that just begins to describe how we roll. The stuffed version at Paseo Catracho, a Honduran restaurant at 824 SW Eighth St., takes the cake banana. For a mere $3.50, you can have…
Crossing over the threshold of blue marble and mirrored walls of the St. Regis leads you to the J&G Grill dining room so rich and decadent that you can’t believe that you get to dine there for a mere $39 per person. Thanks Miami Spice. This is what it’s all…
Sweetness is cupcakes, creative sandwiches, homemade red velvet twinkies, and a grand opening party with Quiky, the Nesquick bunny, giving away free chocolate milk. We have previously covered the opening of Sweetness Bakeshop and Cafe in Hialeah but we finally got to check it out and sink our teeth into…
From the fantastical food world of frings (french fries plus onion rings) and cronuts, we present you with the frickle. Yes, you guessed it, that’s a fried pickle. The crunch of a dill contained in golden fried battered. But wait, there’s more. Brother Jimmy’s BBQ in Brickell serves frickles on…
Facing I-75, in a nondescript location surrounded by warehouses, lies a delicious deli that you probably haven’t heard of before. Franky’s Deli Warehouse in Hialeah is a place that you have to know about to find. Once you arrive, warm faces, meat waiting to be sliced and Cannabis Energy Drinks…
For those of us not working (or discoing) at the car wash, dining there seems to be a pretty decent option. A recent trip to Karma Carwash, left us in a sublime zen state. While our car was being scrubbed, we wanted some of our own personal attention, so we…
Dynamic duos in desserts take many forms: pie à la mode, chocolate and peanut butter, and our favorite, alcohol in sweet treats. The bookends of the meal — the beverage and the closer — need some fusing, showcasing, and devouring. For a list so sweet and spiked it goes straight…
We don’t often eat frog wontons, but when we do we prefer if they don’t look like an actual frog. As we previously mentioned, this weekend Dos Equis brought their market-inspired soiree, Bazaar Noir, to Grand Central. Guests were given passports, to be stamped through visits to several worldly stations…
Chicken and waffles are a soul food combination embraced as that perfect duo for those wee hours between dinner and breakfast. In Miami, the party doesn’t stop until late the next morning, so now the hungry and the hungover have a place to call home on Sunday mornings/afternoons…
NeMesis Urban Bistro, the whimsical restaurant dreamt up by chef Micah Edelstein, features a menu that takes you not only around the world but also around the zoo. In the same vein that Edelstein brings us tuscan sushi, she also brings us far beyond the standard petting zoo of meats…
