There seems to be a gastropub on every Miami street corner nowadays. Anyone can order Nueske’s applewood-smoked bacon, fill a cooler with offbeat craft beers, and cover the walls with red brick. That’s as far as most places take it. But at The Mighty, a pocket-size spot on Coral Way…
The waiter says he can’t leave the ripping-hot, onyx-colored stone bowl on the table. There’s some kind of legal/insurance issue. Someone might get burned. He has to spoon its contents into serving bowls and take the hot pot away. See also: Photos from Drunken Dragon in South Beach…
Kevin Cory’s newest undertaking, N, which opened July, is far different from the neighboring Brickell Key omakase temple that earned him bundles of praise. For most of your $100, hourlong meal at N, you won’t see the soft-spoken chef. Also his staff has grown beyond Wendy, Naoe’s longtime manager, to…
Zak Stern, better known as Zak the Baker, didn’t see his Wynwood bakery with a bustling caf� when he envisioned the place. Then, a line cook at Michy’s told him about a woman who was into farming and goats…
Finka — a funky spelling of the Spanish word for “farm” — made a splash when it opened in early July in far west Miami-Dade as a stylish gastropub with an Asian and South American flair. There’s a ten-drink cocktail list created by Bar Lab, the duo behind hipster hideaway…
Far beyond Miami International Airport and that tangle of Dolphin Expressway construction traffic, a rising stretch of asphalt threatens to launch you into the sawgrass abyss. Only it doesn’t. The road narrows and curves south, spitting you onto SW 137th Avenue and into a maze of low-slung auburn stucco houses…
A Miami food blog has been duped by an anonymous writer-marketer posing as a New York Times food scribe, who hoped to garner some press for a few South Florida restaurants. This is a warning to you, the enthusiastic eater, to make some effort to learn who your recommendations come…
L’echon Brasserie, the Pubbelly Boys’ new place in Mid-Beach’s Hilton Cabana, is both the beginning of a new chapter and a big test for the blossoming restaurant group. There are plans to open restaurants on Miami’s mainland soon. And the company recently announced it would open four places across Mexico,…
While navigating Miami Beach’s treacherous construction traffic, you zip past the Hilton Cabana. Damn! You circle the block for another pass. The red pin on your cell phone’s map must be out of place. It’s doesn’t seem possible that a hip restaurant sits amid the dozens of hotels on Mid-Beach’s…
It appears there is no place left to hide. Lincoln Road in mid-August is flooded with throngs of tourists who require you to have both twinkle toes and ankle-breaking jukes just to get to Shake Shack. Brickell is slammed, even though few restaurants in the area are worth your time…
There’s little doubt Miami’s dining ecosystem has expanded and improved by light years in only a decade or two. Chef-driven concepts and smartly sourced ingredients aren’t as pervasive as many would like, but they’re here and thriving. However, gastropubs continue reproducing like rabbits. Miami diners still annoyingly cling to lowest-common-denominator…
Nothing at Oolite, Kris Wessel’s new place just off Lincoln Road, contains gluten — including the toothsome cornflour penne pasta encased in a gooey cheese sauce. It’s a big bet on a huge space by an established chef in the midst of a rough run. Wessel took over the restaurant’s…
A half-dozen fat, sweet barbecued shrimp arrive bathed in a fragrant, rust-colored sauce. One bite reveals that their tingling spice is cut by the rich smack of butter as well as lemon and floral rosemary. The plump crustaceans are perfectly cooked, with crisp exteriors and tender, briny interiors. They come…
For restaurants, Miami Spice’s two months of dining deals can be a raging hassle. With $23 for lunch menus and $39 for dinner, there’s the possibility of lower check averages for servers. Plus there’s extra ordering and menu planning for chefs and kitchen managers and a whole new slew of…
Boteco, among Miami’s best Brazilian places, is not an aberration. The half-mile of NE 79th Street between Biscayne Boulevard and the bay includes a couple of bait shops, a boat dealership and repair shop, and a scooter place. But it may be the next great dining district. During the past…
By the time Brazil and Croatia kicked off the World Cup, Boteco was bursting at the seams. Sweaty bodies in yellow and green jerseys were squeezed together inside the flag-draped Brazilian restaurant that thumped with samba. More were crammed on the covered patio, which opens onto Miami’s sometimes-slummy NE 79th…
Miami Spice’s can’t miss menus have two things in common: value and creativity. They offer interesting ingredients in combinations that make you eager to learn more and share them with friends. They’re also a steal. You’re looking for good range of selections at restaurants where a single course can run…
Shameless plug alert: The Botran Rum, Chilean wine, and Stella Artois were flowing freely last night at Miami New Times’ Iron Fork kicking off two months of Miami Spice. Now that the bills have been paid let’s move on to the real action: the food. Among the endless array of…
Another steamy summer, another Miami Spice. The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau is back with the oft-beloved, sometimes maligned dining deals that help fill restaurants during the slow summer months and give less well-to-do diners a way to eat in the city’s most lavish spots at a fraction of…
As you step in front of Niu Kitchen’s plate-glass façade in downtown Miami, you’re sucked off the sidewalk and into a buzzing Barcelona-style tapas restaurant. The musical gurgle of emptying bottles of ruby-red tempranillo fills your ears. The nutty scent of toasting bread invades your senses along with the intoxicating…
David Bracha’s River Seafood & Oyster Bar will make its long awaited move out of Brickell sometime in 2015. Bracha, who also owns Oak Tavern in the Design District, has leased spaced on the ground floor of the rising Flagler on the River Apartment Towers being built by Argentine developer…
Not long after sunset, downtown Miami is so deserted the click of a changing traffic light echoes like a gunshot. Once-bustling cafeterias and shops closed hours ago. In the inky darkness, steel shutters rattle in the wind. But then you turn a corner and a cool-yellow glow pours onto the…
