A lot has changed at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach since its opening in 1954. The hotel has undergone renovations and upgrades, but some things remain constant: the resort has always been the most lavish playground on Miami’s famed stretch of beach and the resort has always had a coffee and…
Can you feel a change in the air? Fall is coming, bringing a time for endings and new beginnings. We say goodbye to summer, but look forward to a new school year for some and the holidays for most. This weekend is filled with endings and new beginnings. Celebrity chef…
New Times’ Pairings is here! South Florida’s best foodie event happens this evening when the Broward Center for the Performing Arts hosts over 40 restaurant, each serving amazing food paired with a fine wine or craft beer. If you haven’t already snagged tickets, don’t worry. Tickets available online at browardcenter.org…
Ball & Chain hasn’t opened yet, but the Calle Ocho lounge already has quite an interesting history. The bar, which originally opened in 1935, back when the area now known as Little Havana was a mostly Jewish neighborhood known as Shenandoah, was a well-known jazz palace where the likes of…
Miami’s culinary darling is hosting a special pop-up dinner this Friday, and it looks like it’s been flying under the radar. This Friday, at 7:30 p.m., Bernstein will put on the four-course tasting menu with table-side plating at her Design District bistro, Crumb on Parchment. She will personally explain each…
The owner of Miami’s most iconic Cuban restaurant is at the center of a sordid lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, smutty photos, and rooms full of sex toys. It’s all playing out in civil court thanks to a complaint by a former Versailles worker that lays out the sex claims against…
In what could be the most amazing food/movie tie-in ever, Krispy Kreme and Sony Pictures have announced a collaboration of giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man-proportions! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the greatest ghost story in modern history, Krispy Kreme is releasing two special, limited-edition, Dr. Peter Venkman-approved doughnuts. See…
MasterChef, the Fox cooking competition that has “real people” competing just wrapped up season five, with judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, and Graham Elliot choosing Courtney Lapressi, an aerial dancer from Philadelphia, as the victor. Now, it’s on to season six. MasterChef is seeking contestants for a new season with…
J. Wakefield Brewing Company is finally set to open in the coming weeks. According to founder Jonathan Wakefield, the brewery will start production at the end of September in anticipation of an October opening of the tap room. “We are in our last leg of the completion process,” Wakefield says…
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto has finally picked a date for the opening of his Miami Beach restaurant. Morimoto South Beach opens October 1 at the newly renovated Shelborne Wyndham South Beach Hotel. See also: Iron Chef Morimoto to Open Restaurant at Shelborne South Beach…
Albert Trummer, the “mad scientist” of cocktails, has announced the opening date for his new Miami Beach venture, the Drawing Room Bar & Lounge. The bar, located inside the Shelborne Wyndham Grand South Beach, will feature Trummer’s own brand of cocktails that include botanicals, essences, herbs, and florals to create…
In the beginning of the summer, a dozen Miami chefs entered the Fit to Fight challenge. The challenge, created by Top Chef alum Mike Isabella, started in Washington D.C., where the toque enlisted his Beltway peers to work out and raise over $30,000 for cancer support and research. The challenge…
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon remain the most mysterious of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Unlike the Great Pyramid of Giza, which can still be visited, scholars and historians are still debating over whether the gardens ever existed at all. Whether fact or fiction, the gardens are legendary…
Two years ago, Miam Cafe’s owner, Alexis Jacot, was on vacation with his wife from Switzerland, when he fell in love with the idea of opening a cafe in Wynwood. The former Proctor & Gamble executive noticed a vacancy inside the Wynwood Building and, right then and there, made a…
Happy Friday. If you’ve been inside just about any store, you’ve noticed pumpkins, ghouls,and candy on display — which means that Miami is gearing up for fall — even though it’s still about a grillion degrees outside. With fall come some amazing activities like football (and tailgates!), walks in the…
New Times’ Pairings is next week and you don’t want to miss this event that features dishes from the best South Florida restaurants, each specially paired with a wine or beer to compliment every delicious bite. Just one week from today, on Thursday, September 18, from 7 to 10 p.m.,…
The husband-and-wife team of Yona and Tunu Puri are opening Tamarina, a new restaurant-bar concept at 600 Brickell Ave., in the former Lippi space. See also: Ten Best Brickell Restaurants…
In Colombia, there is an export grown that is prized the world over for its quality and energizing properties. That crop is, of course, coffee. Coffee has been thought to have been grown in the mountainous South American country since the early 1700s, when Jesuits brought coffee seeds with them…
Get ready, Hialeah, because at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23, the “Hot Now” light turns on at the opening of the new Krispy Kreme shop in Hialeah. The bakery, located at 1597 W 49th St., will celebrate its grand opening with some great freebies – including free doughnuts for…
More infomation is coming out about the recent lawsuit filed on behalf of Ayler Ayala, a former cashier at Miami International Airport. The complaint, filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, claims she experienced discrimination and harassment by her former employers, Global Concessions Inc., Gateway Airport Concessions Inc., and Airport Concessions Group…
Last evening, an intimate group of people gathered at the SLS Hotel South Beach, not for a cocktail party or to f�te a supermodel, but for an evening that was much more cerebral — although food and drink were certainly involved. Ferran Adri�, arguably the world’s most award-winning chef and…
A former Versailles restaurant worker has filed a discrimination and harassment lawsuit that includes sordid allegations of sexual misconduct by Versailles’ Felipe Valls Sr. According to the lawsuit, filed this past August 29 in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Ayler Ayala was a cashier at Miami International Airport from May 15, 2010,…
