Kevin Danilo says there’s no true gastropub, or any real service-based restaurants, in the booming Brickell neighborhood. So the 26-year-old, who got his start washing dishes at age 13, teamed up with Jerry Flynn, a manager at Lantao at the Surfcomber hotel, and signed a lease for 5,300 square feet…
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Some might criticize Porketta, the porcine-centric Italian restaurant just off Flagler Street, as being too similar to a New York City restaurant with a similar name. Yet Northern Italians for centuries roasted pig-stuffed pig, traditionally with lungs, kidneys, and other offal, wrapped in a crisp skin…
Miami-based Burger King is cutting ties with a United Kingdom meat supplier found to be using horse meat to “beef up” its products. Burgers from processors Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods in Ireland and Dalepak Hambleton in Britain tested positive for horse DNA, according to Reuters. Part-horse patties were also…
Cooking meat en masse generally warrants a party, so it’s no surprise that in five years a ‘friendly’ pig cooking competition ballooned into a daylong event that last year brought out more than 1,000 people. Long live Latin bravado…
Michael Schwartz has tapped Roel Alcudia (pronounced Roh-ELLE), most recently chef de cuisine at Jonathan Waxman’s New York City restaurant Barbuto, to run the kitchen at the forthcoming Cypress Room, only a few blocks from his flagship restaurant in the Design District. Schwartz broke the news at a recent ‘pop…
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Jose Andres, chef and owner of a fleet of chic restaurants including The Bazaar at the SLS Hotel in Miami, and a nonprofit documentary film team are in the early stages of shooting a Travel Channel-like showing off Haiti’s food and cooking. Andres has visited the country more than a…
A media titan who made billions buying up everything from Graceland to American Idol, is poised to become the Tsar of Miami Beach nightlife. New York businessman Robert F. X. Sillerman has made a significant investment in the Opium Group — owners of Mansion, Set, Mokai, Cameo, and Opium at…
What better way to enjoy Chipotle than without the endless lines that snake outside of the burrito shops? With investors citing concerns of higher pricing than other fast food chains and long lines flat-lining lunchtime profits, the company is launching catering services, according to a report in the Wall Street…
It’s enticing to bring out-of-town friends to Brickell and show them Miami’s progress as an action-packed metropolis. They can walk to one of three Publix stores or buy cigarettes, Red Bull, or whatever stimulant tickles their fancy at the shiny new 7-Eleven. Yet when the time comes to grab a…
Circling around Hialeah side streets near LeJeune Avenue we found Stephen’s Restaurant only after dodging a 10-foot-by-10-foot slab of marble being offloaded into a warehouse. A New York-style deli with house-made, hand-sliced pastrami and corned beef loaded onto thick slices of griddled rye bread is the last thing we thought…
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All photos by Zachary FagensonInside Bonding.In only a few weeks, Bond Trisransi, the man behind Calle Ocho’s Mr. Yum and 2B Asia Bistro, has transformed a South Miami Avenue space sandwiched between Tobacco Road and the River Seafood & Oyster Bar into another of his whimsical, romantic fusion eateries. This…
Southwest Eighth Street, which runs from the edge of Brickell near Biscayne Bay straight west into the Everglades, is for many reasons considered the heart of Miami. In the latter half of the 20th century Little Havana grew up around it as hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled Cuban dictator…
It’s hard to argue against lechon asado as the perfect Christmas Eve meal. The slow-roasted cut that’s loved year-round from the Caribbean to the Southern Cone is culled from a different part of the pig than holiday ham. And it isn’t prepared the same way.This isn’t that massive turkey your…
We’re so close to Christmas the countdown is about to switch from days to mere hours. If you’re one of those who gets shopping done early, pre-Thanksgiving early, then give yourself a pat on the back and get out of our sight. You’re making us feel guilty.For the rest of…
For the past several months Por Fin, the pricey, white linen Spanish restaurant located just off Miracle Mile, has been undergoing a facelift and is to open early 2013 as a tapas bar, Bulla (pronounced Boo-ya). Owner Carlos Centurion said he’s looking to attract a younger crowd with a more…
Bond Trisransi, the man behind Calle Ocho’s Mr. Yum and 2B Asian Bistro is at it again, opening his first Brickell restaurant. Last month he signed a lease on a space on South Miami Avenue with plans to turn it into Bonding. A pink sign bears the restaurant’s name and…
Sushi lovers be warned. You’re favorite spot might be mobbed in the coming days by a horde of reporters, photographers and onlookers looking to get a glimpse and word from John McAfee, the eccentric software pioneers who’s been on the run in Central America for more than a month and…
Sakaya Kitchen chef and owner Richard Hales was none too pleased to learn author, restaurateur and Vice magazine show host Eddie Huang thought his food was “goofy.” @short_order fuck you @mreddiehuang what we do on Miami smack bitches around too for talking shit. Come get some— & Dim Ssäm à…
People come to Miami for a lot of different reasons. Some come to escape cold climate, some life under a leftist dictator and others just don’t want to pay state income tax. Eddie Huang wanted to ride the Bang Bus and shout out Miami’s cultural and gastronomic diversity. “I really…
