The longstanding South Beach Italian haven Escopazzo is no more. The closure of Giancarla Bodoni’s two-decade old restaurant, first reported late last week on Miami.com, comes as the island remains awash in Italian spots, some better than others. In its absence beachgoers are left with choices like Scarpetta, Macaluso’s, Macchialino,…
If the occasional trip to Miami Shores for your weekly or monthly ration of sausages doesn’t fit into your schedule, your problem is solved. Proper Sausages now offers overnight delivery locally and nationwide. See also: Five Reasons to Visit Proper Sausages in Miami Shores…
For more than a decade Trudy Ellis had expected improvements to 54th Street in Miami, where her restaurant Bahamian Pot sat for 26 years. “For years the politicians told me something was going to change, that there would be lights, but it never happened,” she says…
It’s a little secret that Jimmy’z Kitchen will deliver from its Wynwood location to your high rise in Brickell. The only caveat is that it can take a while. A long while. But no more. See also: Miami’s Best Mofongo Hides Near Hialeah…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Three years ago, life was much simpler for Zak Stern. The bearded wunderkind baker did all of…
Sweet-sour cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving staple. But unlike most dishes that adorn holiday tables, it is highly unpredictable, second only to your aunt’s turkey, which for decades has been a coin toss between bone dry and poultry sashimi…
Despite the number of Northeastern transplants in Miami, the choice in Miami diners is slim. They are places to get a pizza burger, super crispy French fries hidden under a mound of greasy industrial cheese, or a solid plate of hash browns and over-easy eggs. A few are sprinkled across…
A 50-pound pig is pumped full of brine for four days and then — around midnight on a Saturday — placed in a large wooden box just behind the Four Seasons Hotel in Brickell. The box is closed, covered in hot charcoal, and left for hours beneath a tent that’s…
If it weren”t for the blinding sun outside, it would be difficult to tell whether it’s lunch on Tuesday or dinner on Friday night inside El Rinconcito de Santa B�rbara. Nevertheless, people are lined up for a table outside the darkened windows of this Hialeah Gardens Puerto Rican spot. Inside,…
Rejoice, South Beach. David’s Caf� is coming back. In April, the decades-old Cuban institution on Collins Avenue was shuttered because the surrounding construction hurt business, owners said. The closing followed the 2012 darkening of the Lincoln Road location (due to exorbitant rent), a caffeine-and-grease-laced hideaway for locals and tourists alike…
There’s a case to be made that the more diverse a cuisine’s array of condiments, the better a meal is likely to be. Pho, the Vietnamese beef soup, is often served with bean sprouts, spicy-minty Thai basil, lime wedges, fish sauce, chili sauce, and hoisin. Condiments are the foundation of…
Masaharu Morimoto’s latest outpost is so understated that a bellhop might have to steer you toward its discreet hiding place in the Shelborne Wyndham Grand’s starchy white lobby, which is spotless after its recent $90 million face-lift…
Micah Edelstein’s funky, soulful downtown restaurant that’s become a cult favorite with one-off bites like alligator ribs will close next month. The shuttering, announced on Nemesis Urban Bistro’s Facebook page, comes as Edelstein looks to move on to a new project…
Jean Paul Desmaison is back, for the moment, inside a stationary trailer in a Coconut Grove parking lot serving his beloved Manchego chorizo empanadas, slicked inside with a sticky layer of fig jam…
Forget amber-colored quarters propped alongside mashed potatoes and watery, over-mayonnaised coleslaw. Honduran restaurants offer their own, far superior version called pollo ceibe�o, or ceibe�o de pollo depending upon where you order it. Named for and popularized in La Ceiba, a port town on Honduras’ north coast, it’s a foundation of…
The beige bulb of crackly pastry dough sprinkled with white powder could be hiding anything. You punch a fork into the flaky shell and a wisp of steam fills the air, which is already thick with incense and the blare of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” set to a Middle Eastern…
With the line between Miami’s slow season and the onslaught of tourists becoming ever more blurred, there is perhaps one event that dictates the beginning of fall: the opening of Knaus Berry Farm…
At this very moment, we are in the throes of a taco revolution. It’s not a boom, as the New York Times so wrongly declared about chicken wings earlier this month. Neither tacos nor wings have experienced a decline in popularity. But while the advances in wing cookery have remained…
Pan con lech�n has a natural progression. What else is one to do with heaps of juicy, fatty pork leftover from a Sunday roast other than tuck it between two pieces of bread with shards of sticky skin and sweet onions?…
Take a pull of chicha morada — a sweet, bluish drink made with Peruvian purple corn, pineapple, and orange accented by the spicy aroma of cinnamon and cloves. Nibble an anticucho of a half-dozen juicy, glistening chunks of beef heart seasoned with little more than garlic, salt, and a good…
Ever wanted to make a toston burger for your crew? A pastelito-cradled patty for your people? If you can cobble together a couple hundred thousand dollars, you can become one of Pincho Factory’s first franchisees. Nedal Ahmad’s humble burger and pincho place has been on somewhat of a tear over…
Milly Mercedes sells orange Creamsicles in a glass. For as long as she can remember, people in her native Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic have woken up to morir sona�do, a blend of milk, orange juice, and sugar that instead of curdling into a sour mess transforms into an…
