Three years ago, Phuket Thongsodchareondee sent a jolt through Miami when he opened Cake Thai on Biscayne Boulevard at NE 79th Street. It’s a compact place where the only decorations are magazine ads with an animated, pop-culture look covered by Thai script. The menu is packed with the intense sweetness,…
For Niven Patel, one of the hardest parts about opening a second location of his Dadeland hit Ghee Indian Kitchen wasn’t the menu, staff, or space. It was telling the NE Second Avenue space’s former tenant and his former boss, Michael Schwartz, that he’d be taking over the room that once held the James Beard Award-winning chef’s Cypress Room.
Wynwood’s Cake Thai has shut its doors. “Probably not reopening as Cake Thai,” restauranteur Javier Ramirez said in a text message. “We will be making a decisions (as to the future of the space) this week.”
Jonel Vajanc has spent much of the past three decades tucked away inside the maze full of stainless-steel equipment and warehouse-size refrigerators and freezers behind Penn Dutch Food Center (3950 N. 28th Ter., Hollywood; 954-921-7144; penn-dutch.com). Some days he ensures that thousands of hot dogs, stuffed into sheep casings that…
A few hours after Hurricane Irma finally left Florida, Miami is essentially on lock-down. Trees cover most streets, downed power lines dangle dangerously all over town and curfews remain in place. So opening for business was basically impossible for most local restaurants today. But a few hardy exceptions managed to…
With much across town shutting down as Hurricane Irma nears, chefs and restaurateurs are scrambling to batten the hatches and do everything they can to protect their spaces as a potentially lethal storm looms in the future. Yet the main question is what to do with freezers and coolers stuffed with food worth thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars
Mercato is actually a revamping of Cafe Nuvo, which was run by the same owners and chef Alex Martinez, who’s been working in Miami Beach at various restaurants since the mid-’00s. It’s now the spitting image of an Italian street scene, fit for a postcard.
After 50 Eggs’ fast-casual fried-chicken spot in Fort Lauderdale shuttered earlier this month, the Miami Beach Spring Chicken location closed it doors last week, leaving the windows on the Alton Road business, which was once Lime and later BTW (Burgers, Tacos, Whiskey), covered with brown paper.
It’s just after 8 a.m. on a weekday when the sun begins pouring into Bakery Café Restaurant (8250 NE Second Ave., Miami; 305-322-6127), a compact place at one end of an orange-stucco strip mall that’s topped with a sloping Spanish-tile roof. Inside, 32-year-old Merline Toussaint’s day is just beginning. Her…
La Centrale, the Italian-themed food hall tucked into the billion-dollar Brickell City Centre, will include a handful of eateries that draw inspiration from different regions of Italy, along with a spot for Neapolitan pizzas and a 5,000-square-foot grab-and-go café replete with cheeses, breads, and all manner of Italian products.
Back in the mid-1970s, Edwin and Sophie Salsburg relocated from central Pennsylvania to South Florida and soon set to convincing their three sons — Bill, Paul, and Rick — to move south and help them start a business. Thus in 1975 Penn Dutch Food Center opened within eyeshot of Interstate…
Ortelio Cárdenas, better known to Miami, the world, and former President Barack Obama, as El Mago de Las Fritas returned to his Flagami cafeteria for work last week after undergoing a double bypass surgery two months ago.
Paon Eatery offers Mediterranean and Latin American plates pared down to their simplest form.
The Fort Lauderdale outpost of 50 Eggs’ Spring Chicken quickly closed on Tuesday night, blindsiding some employees who showed up for work yesterday morning to find they no longer had jobs. “It seems like they came in the middle of the night and just gutted the place,” former general…
A lawsuit filed against Delray Beach-based Delivery Dudes last week in federal court claims the service is paying its drivers sometimes as little as 50 to 75 cents per delivery while requiring them to work between 50 or 60 hours per week.
If you want noodles, a rich broth, and luscious, savory meat, chicken ramen is your golden goose. Such delicate bowls have been few and far between in Miami, where ramen is still sticking around, though it never quite seized the eating public’s imagination in the way doughnuts did.
In December 2015, Barclay Graebner was in a frenzy. The owner of Morgans Restaurant had to keep track not only of a kitchen overwhelmed by thousands of visitors for Art Basel, but also the Annex, a breezy indoor-outdoor lounge/restaurant/bar located under a billowing tent nearby. “I was just sitting down…
Though Lost & Found Saloon shuttered earlier this month, the beloved bar and restaurant’s food is still available, and owner Ken Bercel says he won’t stop cooking even while looking for a new place. “We’ve had a lot of loyal customers throughout the years who’ve really enjoyed the atmosphere and food,…
Rumors had been swirling that the restaurant was having problems ever since ownership changed hands.
Follow your nose to No Name Chinese. There is no sign marking the restaurant that Uvaggio Wine Bar owners Heath Porter and Craig DeWald opened in late May near South Miami’s Sunset Place. Instead, as you wander away from the teen-thronged shopping complex, the air fills with the scent of…
July is proving to be a bad month on Collins Avenue’s 23rd block. Last week, Tom Colicchio announced his Beachcraft at the 1 Hotel South Beach would close at the end of this year. And now Stephen Starr’s the Continental, a retro oasis tucked into the revamped Ankara Motel, has shuttered, according to Philly.com. The Philadelphia restaurateur confirmed that his Miami Beach location closed after dinner service this past Sunday.
Is there space for a burger on a seafood joint’s menu? At Ella’s Oyster Bar, which opened in Little Havana in May, the answer is yes. But this isn’t your standard Cuban ground round. Instead, crabmeat and spicy Mexican chorizo are combined into a Frankenpatty pepped up with cilantro, lime,…
