Jose Gonzalez was a parent of two. The 32-year-old had only working at at North Miami cheese shop Mimmo’s Mozzarella Italian Market for about two months until last week. On Wednesday a worker from a nearby business noticed the store seemed open unusually late. After calling it into police officers found Gonzalez…
Philadelphia restauranteur Michael Solomonov will open a branch of his Federal Donuts in the 250 Wynwood building, according to a press release from property owner Thor Equities. Solomonov, who won a James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef: Mid Atlantic in 2011 and most recently for his cookbook Zahav, is…
North Miami Beach’s Kings County Pizza & Heroes has closed. And now, its website redirects to another where, for a small fee, you can see CassandraCalogeraXXX and Lindsey_Luxury diddle themselves in real time. Calls to the restaurant on Tuesday morning were immediately disconnected and the seemingly hacked site is now…
You seek out a pawnbroker only when you’re desperate, right? Down to your last dime, without another nickel, you gather up what precious little you have left and hand it over for a meager wad of cash. But the Pawn Broker (121 SE First St., Miami; 305-420-2225), perched atop the…
Thoughts of Thailand don’t often spring up in American chophouses. Yet at the 2-month-old PB Station, a meaty slab of swordfish doused in a Meyer lemon vinaigrette evokes the piquant coconut soup tom kha gai. Both coat your mouth with unctuous fat before their acid grips and puckers your cheeks…
Greg Moody wants you to eat better barbecue. Hence why this former college football player, standing over six feet tall wearing all black and a pencil thin salt-and-pepper mustache spends more than two days preparing his brisket. He learned the technique some years ago, when his long-haul trailer broke down…
Camila Ramos’ long awaited coffeeshop All Day (1035 N. Miami Ave., 305-699-3447) opened earlier this month in a bright, yawning space sandwiched between The Corner bar and Fooq’s. In recent years the Cuban-born Ramos has emerged as the next great thing in Miami’s nascent coffee scene despite only a handful…
Forget burgers and T-bones. Set aside thy holy rib eye. Instead, think beyond the usual cuts and opt to load your grill with row after row of sizzling tri tips. The cut is a small, triangular muscle (hence the name) culled from the bottom of the sirloin. Decades ago butchers…
Margoth de Horta wanted her family back together. She fled a violence-wracked Colombia for Miami in the mid 1980s and scraped out a living doing hair out of her West Dade house. She sold Mary Kay jewelry and later and opened a downtown store selling shoes imported from family back…
Diego Muñoz is among the world’s most promising chefs. Yet in late January, he abandoned his post at Gastón Acurio’s Astrid y Gaston in Lima, Peru, where he had racked up award after award. Only a few months later, Muñoz, who also worked in the kitchens of Ferran Adrià’s El…
The chestnut broth in Ichimi’s baby-back rib ramen is the distillation of a life’s worth of delicious steaks in a bowl. This is no slick, salty miso concoction or a tacky, fatty tonkotsu. It’s something different. This is a beef-neck-based broth that fills your senses like the aroma of meat…
Emmi Weiner, a rosy-cheeked, cheerful, 25-year-old redhead, says she knew something was wrong immediately after stepping into Mokai, the trendy South Beach nightclub. After forking over $395 and spending two days studying recipes for mojitos and martinis at the Drink Academy, she was supposed to take a test to qualify…
Paula Carmenate’s Golden Cafe (226 E. Flagler St., Miami; 786-378-1875) seems more like a place to get dressed than to eat lunch. The minuscule space opens to the street through a narrow chocolate-brown door frame. There’s barely enough room in front of the chest-high counter for two people. Beyond its…
Cindy Hutson spent the first lunch shift at Zest in tears. In late February, the downtown office crowd descended upon her 285-seater in a ravenous fury. Soon a kitchen crew that had barely worked together was slammed. “I had 41 orders for lamb burgers,” the 58-year-old Hutson says. “I didn’t…
The next time you think about mocking your vegan friends, consider this: They live in a self-imposed prison in a mostly meat-centric world loath to accommodate their preferences. They have to be ingenious inventors, in other words. Those devout, plant-based acolytes have to find or create new kinds of sustenance…
Cacio e pepe is a classic Roman dish that includes only pasta with a splash of its cooking water, Pecorino-Romano cheese, and a smattering of black pepper — a flawless combination. You would think it couldn’t be improved. But plant-based über-chef Matthew Kenney does the impossible at his two-and-a-half-month-old Plant…
As the summer approaches, there’s no better time to indulge in ceviche. Some pristine fish sliced or cubed and then briefly tossed in an peppy citrus wash is an ideal way to beat the heat. Here’s the problem: No matter how much you spend on your ceviche (or crudo for…
Little Havana’s Viva Mexico has closed for renovations, according to a sign posted on the steel shutters covering the counter where you usually sidle up for a trio of tacos campechano. Yet the closure may be permanent according to Karina Soriano, who until recently supplied the restaurant with a litany of…
Back in the day, you used to see strippers run out of the club to grab a rack of ribs,” Waymond Thomas says. He’s standing outside Bar-B-Que Ribs Chicken & Jerk Shack (12001 NW 27th Ave., Miami; 305-681-3536), cater-cornered to Miami Dade College’s north campus. The air is thick with…
The sweet scent of smoke assaults your senses long before you catch sight of Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann. If you’re acquainted with the gaucho chef who was reared on the edge of Patagonia’s windswept plains, you’ll know that intoxicating perfume comes from his love and calling card: fire. It’s…
Last week we brought you word from North Dade that the recently opened Basilic Vietnamese Grill boasts a fine rendition of pho, joining a limited numbers of options scattered across town. As luck would have it another Vietnamese spot, Pho Mi 2 Go (17010 W. Dixie Hwy., 786-986-2790) opened around…
As with any iconic dish, many cooks add their own touch to the standard Peking and roast duck recipes. And despite Miami’s lack of a concentrated Chinatown, there’s no shortage of devotees roasting duck their own way. Find the city’s priciest versions at Miami Beach hot spots such as Hakkasan…
