It was by sheer accident that we stumbled upon a newly opened Il Grissino Ristorante in Coral Gables. Just more than a week old, the Italian restaurant occupies the space that formerly housed La Gastronomia and an adjoining shop. There’s one thing the new place has certainly done well: transformed…
A new restaurant is coming to the old Provence Grill space across from Perricone’s in Brickell (1001 South Miami Avenue). Its name: Baru Urbano. Owner Nicolas Hoyos, former owner of Macondo on South Beach, says the restaurant will serve international food with a Latin flair. The interior will feature street…
It’s obvious that Ole Tapas & More was created for the Brickell office crowd. The recently opened restaurant is located in the sky lobby at the Four Seasons, where at $5 an hour, parking may run you more than your sandwich. The restaurant opens Monday through Friday only from 7…
You know the type: Walls lined with South American wines, alfajores and other facturas neatly organized in a glass display, panettone boxes everywhere (’tis the season), refrigerators with ready-to-cook gnocchi, golden-baked empanadas laying out under a heat lamp … They’re hard to resist, those empanadas, and the recently opened Patagonia…
Jacques Pepin showed Eric Ripert a thing or two in a friendly cook-off at the Arsht Center Celebrity Chef series Friday night. With nine minutes to go on the 30-minute clock, Pepin, who found time to make dessert in addition to the two dishes he and Ripert were expected to…
In what sounds like a modern version of a salon, 35 guests will join an artist and a chef at a private penthouse near Miami’s Design District to dine, talk art and rub elbows during Art Basel. The occasion: “The Art of Gourmet,” a dining and art event of three…
Driving down Grand Avenue, the only thing that might clue you into the existence of Golden Ribs is a sign standing on the street’s median. Tucked in between a hair salon and a barber shop, the small space in West Coconut Grove is the new home to long-time rib man,…
About 6,500 food buyers and distributors showed up at the 12th Annual Americas Food & Beverage Show in Miami Beach yesterday to check out food and drink products from close to 300 exhibitors from the U.S. to Algiers. Walking around the huge marketplace at the Miami Beach Convention Center, we…
Chef Mark Militello has left 1 Bleu at the One Resort and Spa (formerly The Regent Bal Harbour) to join The Office, a gastropub in Delray said to be opening in late November. Last December Militello took the reigns as executive chef of culinary operations at The Regent Bal Harbour…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez loves his Publix. And its store manager, John Navarro, too. “Johnny…I’m giving you a plug, your bosses are here. Best manager Publix has,” Alvarez said of Navarro addressing media, Publix employees, and producers during the launch of Redland Raised — a branding campaign to promote…
We could go on about the morality of eating grass-fed beef (if you watched Food Inc., you know cows confined to feedlots eating corn aren’t very happy or healthy). But a better argument for buying grass-fed simply may be better taste and nutritional value. It was the taste of U.S…
Mary Brickell Village’s Blu Pizza e Cucina is closed “for renovation.” Yeah, we know what that typically means in restaurant speak.Calls to the restaurant’s listed phone number yielded a ‘temporarily out of service’ message. So we dialed Blu Restaurant Group’s offices, where office manager Maggie Nabut confirmed that the Brickell…
