On the bum-ridden downtown Miami street corner where Micah Edelstein’s Nemesis Urban Bistro once stood, French-Persian owner David Foulquier strives to deliver some continental European and Middle Eastern comfort. The 25-year-old is a first-time restaurateur who grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. His family often hosted large dinner parties…
Brickell bagel shop Toasted Bagelry & Deli plans to open a second location on the corner of Douglas Road and Coral Way mid summer. Owners Islam and Khalid Mohammed, who opened the their brick-covered store in 2013, are also scouting locations in Pinecrest. Short of schlepping to Aventura’s Bagel Cove…
The spent grains that emerge from of Miami Brewing’s towering stainless steel cylinders aren’t walking their funeral procession. Instead, Dewey LoSasso repurposes them into a nutty tabbouleh salad flecked with parsley and doused with fruity olive oil. It’s also coaxed into a spongy, toothsome bread that’s soaks up the savory…
These days, bovine lovers are bombarded with cautionary tales of the risks tied to red-meat-heavy diets. Cows, meanwhile, have become the scourge of the modern world because of the staggering energy and resources needed to produce a single primal cut. Yet steak houses in Miami and beyond continue to thrive…
Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Joël Robuchon’s forthcoming Design District restaurants aren’t anything to celebrate, yet. The multibillion-dollar enclave being developed by Craig Robins in partnership with Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy-funded L Real Estate has already been a hub of culinary creativity. Today, you can walk through the beating heart of Michael…
Hours after friends and family learned of Israel “Reefa” Hernandez-Llach’s death at the hands of a police Taser in the summer of 2013, the spray paint was out. Soon, the pale yellow building officers they discovered him tagging was covered in memorials and tributes. Today, that’s washed away and last…
An American pizza enthusiast might be dismayed in Naples, the Italian city widely accepted as the pie’s birthplace. There, diners don’t debate whether to fold or not to fold. Instead, the bubbly crusts and thin centers are handled with forks and knives. Similar, foot-wide pies await at Ironside Pizza, which…
Downtown Miami is awash in mediocre soup, sandwich and salad spots. Hence why Richard Hales’ Sakaya Kitchen (soon to become Centro Taco) and Sparky’s Roadside Barbecue are perpetually packed during midday hours. The same was the case on recent weekday at Burrito San, a kind of Pan-Asian place focused on…
The afternoon crescendos suddenly. Just as the rose-petal-infused Plymouth gin shaken with lemon juice and sweet pear purée takes hold, singer-songwriter Rachel Goodrich appears brandishing a kazoo and a ukulele. Soon, the musician (who turned 31 this past Sunday) begins cooing a mélange of indie-sounding, almost-Vaudevillian tunes. The sun slips…
The man who packs foie gras and char siu into homemade bialys in his Surfside deli has taken over the kitchen of a longstanding Coral Gables bar, adding options like a pretzel quesadilla. For about two weeks Josh Marcus has been behind the line at The Bar off Miracle Mile…
After months of construction David’s Café reopened on Lincoln Road late last week nearly a year after its nearly 40-year-old Collins Avenue outpost closed. The space is noticeably smaller than its two predecessors, but a crowd still flooded in on a late Sunday morning for cafecito and pansito. Intricate blue…
The Argentinean ice cream empire Freddo Helado will open it’s second Miami location in Brickell on the ground floor of an under-construction condo building at 11000 S. Miami Ave. The company, which was founded in Buenos Aires in 1969, opened its first Miami outpost on Lincoln Road in late November…
Antonio Rodriguez doesn’t have a good reason why he opened his no frills Avila Bistro in a Biscayne Boulevard strip mall in Aventura. The rent was cheap, he said, and friends told him of a large, underserved Venezuelan population after he arrived here from Caracas about a year ago. “Behind…
No-knead bread pioneer Jim Lahey, a 2015 James Beard Foundation nomination for best baker, is planning a commercial and retail bakery in Little Haiti steps away from the longstanding Soyka. The 4,000-square-foot operation could also host Lahey’s pizza concept Co., according to the Miami Herald which reported the news late…
Green strawberries appeared on Miami restaurant menus in force this season, and you can thank Palm Beach for it. Last year Daniel Boulud’s Cafe Boulud requested some of the tart, unripe fruit from Jodi Swank’s Loxahatchee farm. When the season closed in June she and her husband Darrin sent a…
John Kunkel is going back to his roots. After opening hits like Yardbird Southern Table & Bar, Khong River House, and Swine Southern Table & Bar, the 50 Eggs chief is again dabbling in fast-casual with Burger Taco Whiskey, BTW for short, and a pair of other concepts. “John has…
Andrew Gilbert knows his mushy peas would infuriate any bona fide British citizen, including his mother. They’re not the kind you’d find at an English chip shop.
Michelle Bernstein shuttered-but-not-forgotten Spanish restaurant Sra. Martinez will return for one night April 10 at the Thompson Miami Beach. The recently opened hotel hosts her latest concept, Seagrape. At the same time Bernstein seems only weeks away from reopening her namesake MiMo restaurant while also juggling a lounge at Miami…
Arjun Wanjey, a partner in the popular, pricey Zuma and recently opened Coya, will opened a French restaurant in Brickell in the coming year, according to The Real Deal. The announcement comes little more than a month after Coya, a high-end Latin American spot focused on Peruvian cuisine, opened at…
If you were one of those griping on social media about the snubbing of Miami during this year’s culinary awards season, you should be out there drumming up votes for Pubbelly’s Jose Mendin and Niu Kitchen’s Deme Lomas. Food & Wine magazine nominated the pair as contenders for the People’s…
Some weeks ago thanks to a glut of American Express point and cheap-as-hell flights bound for San Francisco I found myself sitting at SPQR at on ungodly 11 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Sure I was sucking down a train of Zantac 150s, Alka-Seltzer and water in hopes of staving…
With the reopening of Michelle Bernstein’s beloved eponymous restaurant only weeks away the busier-than-ever chef is staffing up and preparing to unleash a new menu on Miami featuring some classics alongside new creations. Bernstein has hired Michael Mayta and Keily Vasquez as chef de cuisine and pastry chef respectively. The…
