Captain Jim’s might well have burned down years ago. “Once we got in here and opened up the ceiling, I was surprised it never caught fire,” says David Garcia, who took over the iconic North Miami restaurant early this year. “The place was a dump. It was so dirty I…
Molly Lu was desperate for a taste of home. For more than a decade, she’s lived in Miami with her Cuban husband, Miguel Astorquiza, longing for the roast duck and crispy pork belly she grew up with in Jiangmen just outside of Macau. “My dad has three sisters and two brothers, and all of them own Cantonese barbecue restaurants…
“What kind of Jewish food do you think we could put into a pastelito?” Giovanni Fesser asks while poaching a few dozen eggs in the subterranean kitchen of Ariete (3540 Main Hwy., Coconut Grove; 305-640-5862; arietemiami.com). The answer: lox and cream cheese. But chef/owner Michael Beltran recalls they tried that…
A federal judge has approved a class-action lawsuit led by Roberta Didoni alleging Ocean Drive’s Columbus Restaurant failed to pay servers minimum wage while taking cuts from the waiters’ tip pool and forcing them to pay for credit card chargebacks — the unpaid tabs of patrons who walked away from their tables.
Brendan Sutton knew he wanted to be a farmer in his mid-20s. Now, at age 50, he grows produce that fills the coolers at Ghee Indian Kitchen, widely regarded as one of Miami-Dade’s best restaurants.
Giovanni Fesser is reinventing Miami’s favorite pastry. A couple of years ago, the burly, bearded 38-year-old Ariete sous-chef was awake in the middle of the night, bouncing between episodes of Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and videos of entrepreneur/motivational speaker Gary Vaynerchuk. For some reason, he began thinking about pastelitos and couldn’t stop.
Say goodbye to pastrami pizza and Jewish deli fare on South Beach. All three locations of Buzzy Sklar and Richard Booth’s Hank & Harry’s Deli quietly closed late last week.
Vida & Estilo Restaurant Group and Alberto Cabrera, who ran the excellent but short-lived Little Bread in Little Havana, will reopen the small window and cafe at the former David’s Cafe Lincoln Road location toward the end of 2018, serving classic Cuban fare done right.
Lunch is an oasis, a respite from the insanity of the everyday. Its magic is felt in the deep calm washing over you during and after your meal. Europeans know how to do it. Many of them close up shop in the afternoon and then head to their favorite spot…
The global culinary community mourned the loss of another icon as news of the passing of French chef Joël Robuchon spread from Geneva on Monday. Best known for at one time holding the most Michelin stars in the world, Robuchon, who was 73, forever altered fine dining. He was among…
No cook in Miami makes pasta like Roberto Fernandez. Deep below the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, in a room reachable only through a labyrinth of corridors, he emerges from a walk-in refrigerator with a crayon-yellow heap of dough about the size of an adult sea turtle. The wiry 52-year-old with silver…
Andrew Alessi, a promising young cook who was poised to take on a management position in the kitchen of the popular 27 Restaurant & Bar in Miami Beach, has died.
For ten months, Phuket “Cake” Thongsodchareondee was running Gaijin Izakaya without proper permits. It wasn’t his fault, he says.
In the summer of 2014, a SpaceX Dragon capsule on a resupply mission bound for the International Space Station carried precious cargo. The innocuously named Veggie, no larger than a couple of sneaker boxes bound together, would let astronauts cultivate plants in space in the hopes of discerning which varieties of the countless millions found on Earth would work best in orbit and, eventually, beyond.
A blast of heat greets everyone who steps onto the floor of Gilda Industries Inc.’s factory at 2525 W. Fourth Ave. in Hialeah. Overhead, tens of thousands of crackers, otherwise known as galletas and not to be confused with the sweeter cookies of a similar name, zip by on conveyor…
In the early-morning hours in late spring 2013, Jason and Melanie Schoendorfer gathered a cooler full of homemade bacon and sausage, several dozen eggs, and a few cases of fluffy rolls and headed for the weekly Pinecrest Gardens Farmers Market.
After less than a year, James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov’s two fast-casual restaurants in Wynwood have closed. Sunday was the last day for Dizengoff, an Israeli-styled hummusiya; and Federal Donuts, which during its short lifespan sold among the city’s best doughnuts alongside pristine fried chicken dusted with a za’atar or coconut curry seasoning.
It’s late afternoon on a recent Saturday, and a man wearing a green cape, green tights, and a mask with a marijuana leaf pinned between the eyes strolls into North Bay Village’s Happy’s Stork Lounge & Liquor. Stepping up to the bar, he draws a few puzzled looks from patrons…
Four hundred ninety-five chefs and culinary personalities will participate in the 2018 installment of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Only 75 of them are women.
Homa Khakpour will never forget the aroma of rice perfuming her neighborhood in Shiraz, in southwestern Iran, each day on her way home from school. “As you’re walking, you can smell it pouring out of every house, and the saffron, there’s nothing like it,” says the 66-year-old owner of Rumi…
In about a month, chef Brian Nasajon hopes to finish construction on the former Gigi space, adjacent to the Shops at Midtown Miami, turning it into a diner with a deep lineup of house-made staples.
High-school-pals-turned-tea-men Tico Aran and Michael Ortiz want to make the world a better place with tea. For the past year, the two guys behind JoJo Tea have been striving toward that goal three days a week inside their ascetic, tea-tasting speakeasy on Le Jeune Road. The $25 tea experience provides a moment of pause in an otherwise overwhelming world.
