Late Sunday night, things really get going at Club Tipico Dominicano (1344 NW 36th St., Miami; 305-634-7819; clubtipicodominicano.com). The persistent, percussive wail of bachata fills the steamy Allapattah club as multicolored lights flash and strobe. Big bowls of sancocho and tripe soup ($4), surrounded by green Presidente beer bottles, snake…
Family, friends, and the staff of both locations of Ghee Indian Kitchen are reeling this week following the untimely passing of 27-year-old cook Eduardo “Eddy” Alicea. He celebrated his birthday Saturday night at the Design District location where he works before heading out for a night in Miami Beach. He never made it home after a car crash early Sunday morning.
Frankie Zerquera never meant to become a cook. Once he did, he never thought he’d be best known for his dale huevo colada ($4.50), in which a raw egg yolk is magically incorporated into a stiff, sugary Cuban espresso. The resulting cup yields freakishly foamy sips of coffee with hints…
In 2002, restaurateur Steve Haas pitched an idea to the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau: Host a month of dining deals at local restaurants. It was just a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and many people were still wary of travel. The program would incentivize coming…
At Ember, Brad Kilgore and chef de cuisine Nick Graves invite diners to sit back, eat, and feel right at home and in another dimension all at the same time.
Robert Is Here, owned by Robert Moehing and listed in the National Culinary Heritage Register, is fighting to block a mammoth project that could change the face of the rural community in which the iconic fruit stand resides.
Four months after opening and quickly becoming a beloved spot for traditional New York-style deli sandwiches, the Pastrami Joint in Little Haiti has closed. The shop’s owners cite issues with its landlord, the co-working property 360 Spaces.
How does a Miami restaurant become an institution? The odds are against it. Besides the elements and the constant struggle of building a business, restaurant owners must contend with fickle populations who remake Miami every decade or so as well as breakneck development. The two key elements to making this happen, it seems, are obsession and luck.
Describing Michael Schwartz’s food these days is no easy task. The tag line of his Design District flagship, Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, which opened in 2006 and earned him a James Beard Award in 2010, is “Fresh, Simple, Pure.” That often meant locally or thoughtfully sourced ingredients that are…
uciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer who since 2017 have kept Edgewater, the Design District, and the surrounding neighborhoods satiated with tacos of house made tortillas filled with a bounty of Proper Sausages proteins will close their Design District cart at the end of this month to make way for their forthcoming restaurant Boia De, situated in the Buena Vista neighborhood.
As a kid, Danny Serfer’s parents used to take him to a Broward County sub shop that unknowingly set the standard for all future sandwiches the chef would eat. “It was a local place in a strip mall that sold subs, VHS tapes to rent, candy, and we would always go there and order ham and cheese with lettuce with this amazing salad dressing,” he said. “Ever since then, I’ve been chasing that dragon.”
With each dawn, it seems as though something new is poking into the sky over Brickell – an SLS here, a Related Group condo there. Despite the vast sums of money that have poured into the neighborhood over the past two decades, its dining options have rarely kept pace with its architectural sophistication.
Michael Lewis never wanted to open a casual restaurant; he just wanted something to eat. Most days he had arrived at Kyu, his Asian barbecue spot in Wynwood famed for its cauliflower, to prepare the kitchen for the looming onslaught. After four or five hours, he was famished, breakfast had…
William Crandall, the Miami chef who sparked national controversy after he was seen at a recent food event wearing a shirt bearing the logo of the controversial alt-right Proud Boys, has resigned from his position as chef de cuisine of Stripsteak, celebrity chef Michael Mina’s posh steakhouse inside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, according to hotel spokesman Larry Carrino.
Will Crandall, who heads Michael Mina’s Stripsteak in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, posted a photo of himself this past Sunday wearing a black-and-yellow-trimmed polo bearing the logo of the alt-right Proud Boys at Duck Duck Goose, an annual celebration of fowl that wrapped up at the Anderson.
Bryan Ford is helping the Toscana Divino Hospitality Group revamp its breakfast and lunch spot in the Ironside complex into the more ingredient- and craft-focused Ironside Bakery.
Nearly a dozen food halls have been announced, opened, or closed (RIP, Jackson Hall; welcome, CentralFare) since the beginning of the food hall trend, but few have been as hyped or anticipated at Time Out Market Miami, which opened in early May with 18 of the city’s best chefs and…
Few places in the world consider the beginning of winter a blessing, unless you’re an avid skier or a Homestead farmer. In tropical South Florida, it’s when all of the vegetables that disappear in almost every other climate begin to thrive.
It’s 5 a.m. and Jean Lucel is already smoking. As Little Haiti begins coming to life in the wee hours, the 37-year-old Lucel, who is soft-spoken and sports a voluminous black beard, will spend the next eight or so hours monitoring piles of brisket, ribs, and chicken while refreshing the tinderbox with oak and keeping tabs on his nearby tattoo shop.
There have been some bright spots though and late last month Hollywood’s GoBistro opened on 25th Street dishing out steamed buns filled with pork belly ($11) and soft-shell crab ($12), a panoply of the far-from-traditional sushi Miamians seem to adore and best of all ramen in four different formats, and nearly all priced at a reasonable $15.
Impossible whopper or regular whopper? Before even discussing whether the soy protein heme used in Burger King’s new plant-based patty really mimics the texture and beefy flavor of meat, we might first ask which burger has less environmental impact on our planet.
In July South Beach’s iconic, 22-hour French sandwich spot La Sandwicherie will open in Wynwood on the corner of Northwest Second Ave. and 22nd St. The following month another is planned for North Beach on the corner of Collins Ave. and 73rd St.
