Just two years after opening, Tom Colicchio’s Beachcraft, located inside the 1 Hotel South Beach, will shutter at the end of this year, Colicchio confirmed today. The hotel’s bar, Tom on Collins, is slated to undergo a branding change as the Top Chef host, who oversees a fleet of Craft restaurants and other properties across the country, pulls up stakes.

After more than a decade of burgers and late nights, the Lost & Found Saloon that straddled Wynwood and the Design District has closed. Although the doors are locked, patio tables remain outside as if waiting for diners to drink beer and down burritos. Two women took a smoke break at the tables yesterday afternoon.

The miang kham at Atchana’s Homegrown Thai isn’t a lettuce wrap. One of the many small dishes arranged on a large plate holds wrinkly pale-pink dried shrimp. In another are toasted coconut flakes. Yet another bears tiny beige cubes you later learn are bits of ginger and garlic. Even the…

Longtime friends Jose Ignacio Garcia, 25, and Jose Pablo De Leon, 24, first met while attending school in their hometown Guatemala City. When they relocated to the United States, Garcia made his way to Boston to finish school while De Leon wrapped up at Florida International University. As graduation approached,…

As 28-year-old Rizwan Sowkat tries to explain the taste of fish such as ayer, boal, and shor puti, entombed in his freezer cases at his North Miami Beach grocery store, he pauses and offers a curt nod when Kamrul Khan steps through the door.

To begin a meal at Le Sirenuse, the elegant restaurant that opened March 23 in Surfside’s Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club, a server wearing white gloves and a jacket with gold epaulets appears tableside holding a silver tray. On it sit two demitasses with rims powdered red by…

Giovanni Gagliardi stands before his red pizza oven like an orchestra conductor. He wears a crisp white T-shirt and a baseball cap bearing the logo of San Felice, an iconic Neapolitan flour mill. Baggy chef pants covered in a print of hundred-dollar bills peek out from under his apron. His…

In a year with few openings of note, Upland, Justin Smillie and Stephen Starr’s inviting South of Fifth spot that plies familiar ingredients with unexpected touches, has stood out. In an unusual twist of fate, it is equally popular with many of the city’s better chefs as well as South Beach’s sun-bleached sugar-baby crowd.

Dark days followed the shuttering of Alberto Cabrera’s Little Bread Cuban Sandwich Co. in late 2015. The ruddy-haired chef who once worked at Karu & Y breathed new life into Miami’s galaxy of Cuban sandwiches when his shop opened with offerings like medianoches and Elena Ruzes built with house-made ingredients.

Food truck owner Horatio Garrell scrimped and saved for six years to get together enough money to open a brick-and-mortar spot to serve his smoky jerk chicken and pork. When his eatery King Jerk finally opened at 14821 W. Dixie Hwy., the centerpiece was a $5,000 hybrid grill/smoker that was hardly used before thieves snatched it out of the parking lot surrounding Garrell’s new bright-red restaurant.

So far, 2017 has been a year of big openings and bigger expectations on Miami’s restaurant scene. The SLS Brickell illustrates the trend via new offerings from both Spanish superchef José Andrés and local hero Michael Schwartz. Then there’s Kris Wessel, whose short-lived Oolite and beloved Red Light Little River…

A wide bowl striped with narrow white and black lines arrives filled with a knot of thick, opaque udon noodles sturdy enough to grip with chopsticks but delicate enough to absorb the spicy ocean tonic infused with ginger and kelp in which they float. The soup is filled out with…

Before it was filled with the aroma of espresso and the spray-painted canvases of Atomik’s grinning oranges, Javier Betancourt’s White Rose Coffee (6426 SW Eighth St., Miami) was a coke-and-wine den. “When we started building out the bathrooms and pulled down the towel holders, there were stacks and stacks of cocaine baggies behind them”…

In recent years vast swaths of Florida and South Florida’s most successful food distributors, including many that sell to the city’s best restaurants, have been bought up by national firms whose representatives refused to discuss their plans and operations following several New Times inquiries.

In Miami, legitimate bagel options are rare. Bagel Bar East, Bagel Cove, and Toasted are the most reliable. Head a bit farther north, and Sage Bagel (along with its array of smoked fish) is the best of the best. But all of those options didn’t seem right for 25-year-old Matteson Koche, who for a few months has run a bagel delivery service via the Instagram account El Bagel.

Niven and Shivani Patel’s Ghee Indian Kitchen began welcoming its first guests earlier this month and already the much-anticipated place has become one of the city’s hardest reservations. There were no two tops available this past Saturday. I was able to sneak in on Tuesday night, where by 8 p.m. the place was packed out like the towering shelves filled with spices and preserve that line one the concrete walls.

Steve Santana’s Taquiza and David Bracha’s beloved Brickell seafood spot The River Seafood & Oyster Bar will join the likes of Stanzione 87, Bianco Gelato, Myumi, a Threefold Café project, and Cake Thai in the food hall inside the Citadel, a 60,000-square-foot food hall, market, and workspace set to open some time in the winter of 2017-2018.

Late last month, Enriqueta’s Sandwich Shop owner José Plá quietly pushed the closing time of his humble NE Second Avenue operation from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Though this change might not mean much to the place’s huge breakfast and lunch crowd, it’s some of the most interesting news to come to Edgewater since its denizens learned just how much of the area was controlled by one Russian billionaire. It also means the ballooning populations in midtown and Edgewater can now grab an early dinner at Enriqueta’s.

Deme Lomas is a slender 35-year-old Catalonian with luminescent blue-gray eyes and slick hair. Just before the dinner rush on a recent weekday afternoon, he cuts a small heap of thymus glands into bite-size pieces and drops them into boiling water. After five minutes, when they’re about half-done, he pulls them out and plunges them into an ice-filled tub.

It’s an early weekday morning, and Elsa Burger presides over the kitchen at Pampangueña with a wide smile and chestnut hair that falls to her shoulders. Her white shirt is covered by a red apron with an “I Love Herbalife” pin affixed to the strap. The short 57-year-old Filipina stir-fries…

It’s just before 9 a.m. and Marcel Az still hasn’t had breakfast. Standing on the sidewalk outside Fort Lauderdale’s Noor Bakery, the slender, baby-faced trucker cups his hands around his eyes and desperately signals for help. When the door of the beige building with a red clay-tiled roof clicks open,…