Slide show: Closer Look: Mixtura in Coral Gables.

By 8 a.m. crews are already lining up outside of Shell Lumber on the corner of U.S. 1 and 27th Avenue. Yet it’s not plywood or tool parts they’re after. It’s hot dogs, bratwurst and mini hamburgers. The half-block-long hardware store has been in business 84 years and remains a…

There’s no shortage of effort or money being put into Momi Ramen, housed in a tiny red brick building on a Brickell side street in the shadow of nearby condo towers. The small eatery, sparse inside with columns of bamboo, steel moldings and decorations, and exposed brick walls, is planned…

A few cosmetic bits of La Cofradia, the now-closed Peruvian restaurant that was once the best in Coral Gables, remain in the space now known as Mixtura, but that’s all. Nestor Rojas and Miguel Hilck, partners in a North Beach Peruvian restaurant of the same name, bought the space earlier…

Tikl Restaurant Review: Brickell’s Small-Plates Concept Deserves a Leisurely Visit

Tikl Raw Bar & Grill, the latest project from chef Simon Stojanovic, former toque for Miami Beach’s Altamare, marks the entrance of the small plates concept to Brickell. It’s a welcome addition to a neighborhood flooded with high priced, mediocre restaurants. Tikl for the moment plays to the business lunch…

Simon Stojanovic’s TIKL was bustling with business types from nearby office towers on recent weekday. Though it’s only officially been open since September 21, the restaurant’s design, menu format and location seem to indicate that it will be a success. Read also Altamare Team to Open Tikl on BrickellWhether the…

Tucked inside what appears to be a small home along Coral Way near 17th Avenue, Casabe 305 Bistro looks like somebody ripped a cottage out of Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard, gave it a three week juice cleanse in San Francisco then dropped it off in Miami with a Latin menu…

In about a month, the Ham and Eggery, the kitschy, barnlike breakfast spot open 24 hours inNorth Miami Beach will close its doors after 47 years. New Times named it the best breakfast joint in 1992, and not much has changed since. There are nearly two dozen omelet options, and…

For more than 20 years, Karen Lim and her sister Emily have run the Mary Ann Bakery on 163rd Street in North Miami. Yes, for two decades, they’ve been turning out sweet and savory Chinese treats, Hong Kong-style. Miami has a dearth of Chinese restaurants, as well as places that…

It’s still unclear whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez closed his country’s consulate in Miami or whether developer Tibor Hollo simply evicted Venezuelan diplomats from 1101 Brickell Ave. Either way, there’s been an influx of Venezuelan restaurants to the Brickell area, and that’s a good thing. For a long time, at least…

Sushi Maki owner Abe Ng opened his latest project, Pao Town, to much fanfare last week, and Short Order was there to taste some of the first dishes coming out of the kitchen. The short menu is divided into four sections: mains, salads, buns, and sides. It’s a survey of…

Miami on Thursday will welcome fast-casual Asian eatery Pao Town, a project Abe Ng and his team, who run the Sushi Maki empire, have been working on for nearly a year.Local food enthusiasts began sneering at the fast-casual Asian concept almost as soon as it caught fire, yet the restaurants in…

It can sometimes be hard to find Mark Gibson — the pastor-turned-grillmaster and owner of Ribs-2-Go catering — among the swarm of candy colored food trucks rolling around Wynwood. It’s easy, however, to smell him. He’s not on Twitter nor did he even want to be mentioned by name when,…

It’s become standard to judge any ethnic restaurant by the number of people from a specific ethnicity sitting at its tables. However it was the sound of people sucking air through runny noses that assured me Pho Thang, the unassuming Vietnamese restaurant only a few miles from ZooMiami, was the…