Kings County, Miami’s Best New York-Style Pizza Spot, Has Closed

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…

With PB Station, the Pubbelly Boys Go Downtown With Finesse

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…

Panther Coffee Alum Opens Downtown Miami Coffeeshop All Day

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…

This Memorial Day, Try Tri-tip

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…

Diego Muñoz Coming to 1111 Peruvian Bistro

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…

Gables Japanese Spot Ichimi Improves Daily

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…

Downtown Mexican Eatery Golden Cafe Survives Despite the Odds

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 Adds Zest to Downtown Miami

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…

Pho Mi 2 Go in North Miami Beach Serves a Better Banh Mi

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…

These Three Miami Restaurants Do Duck Right

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…