Celebrity chef and Food Network star Aarón Sánchez comes from a long line of strong women who have influenced his culinary career. His grandmother is cookbook author Aida Gabilondo, and his mother is 72-year-old restaurateur and cookbook author Zarela Martínez. She also serves on the board of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
Just a year after it was formed, David Grutman has sold a majority stake in his Groot Hospitality to Live Nation Entertainment.
It’s the chain’s first location in urban Miami.
This week, the Cat’s Meow Café will pop up at the Lab Miami, while Food Network’s Aarón Sánchez hosts a culinary fundraiser at Lincoln Eatery for the Parkinson’s Foundation. Plus, Rachael Ray opens a virtual restaurant with Uber Eats this Thursday, and Sushi Sake celebrates its tenth anniversary.
Stone crab season officially began this week, which means Miami should be seeing claws sold everywhere from restaurants to markets. But how can you tell whether the stone crabs you’re eating are fresh and frozen? And does it really matter?
Craft Beer Cellar, a craft beer bar and bottle shop, has quietly opened in Fort Lauderdale. Situated in a small strip mall alongside Egg & You Diner, the 1,500-square-foot bottle shop and taproom offers rare beers to take home and to drink onsite. Owned by Amy and Eddie Abralde and Marta Urra, it’s the first South Florida location of the Massachusetts-based chain of specialty beer stores.
This weekend, the forthcoming Doral Yard will host a pop-up at Tripping Animals Brewing, while the seventh-annual Redland GrowFest returns to the Fruit & Spice Park. Plus, Verde will debut an exhibit-inspired menu, the South Florida Seafood Festival will take over Miami Marine Stadium just in time for stone crab season…
After less than a year in operation, Ad Lib will close its doors after dinner service Friday, October 18.
Jose Mendin has learned through experience that the restaurant industry is fluid. Even as the chef is in Paris for the opening of his new restaurant, Moloko, in the Pigalle neighborhood, word has spread that his flagship, Pubbelly Noodle Bar, has closed.
It’s fall, which means a new season to explore Miami’s restaurant scene. Dining out doesn’t have to break the bank, though. Many restaurants are offering dinner deals, and some spots have extended their Miami Spice specials in the hopes of attracting locals before the season kicks into high gear.
Taiyaki, the place that creates the most iconic, adorable, and Instagrammable frozen treats, is set to make your childhood dreams come true with its new line of Care Bears products.
Vandalo debuted mid-September in Wynwood with a street art theme. On its website, the restaurant and lounge, created by the team behind party spot, Dirty Rabbit, calls itself, “a gangsta-sophisticate experience, demonstrates that the destruction of something, including one’s self, is also the creation of something new. Something better.”
Miami, a city full of strange stories and interesting characters year-round, is the perfect place to celebrate Halloween. And because the Magic City moves to a Latin beat, many Miamians also observe the coinciding Mexican holiday Día de lost Muertos, AKA Day of the Dead. So expect a plethora of events…
Tacolandia returns November 16 with unlimited tacos.
Fans of Rachael Ray in the Miami area will now be able to try food from her favorite recipes when Rachael Ray to Go launches on October 17.
Miami Spice may be over, but the fall brings a whole new set of meal deals to Miami. With cooler weather comes renewed vigor about work and school, so why not take a break with a delicious lunch instead of eating a sandwich at your desk? Here are ten restaurants…
Generator, the London-based upscale hostel chain, has announced it has purchased all four Freehand hotel locations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami Beach. The purchase includes all of its food and beverages operations — namely, the beloved and lauded Broken Shaker and 27 Restaurant & Bar.
Craft breweries from West Palm Beach to Key West have teamed up to brew beers to help relief efforts in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in early September decimated some of the 700 islands in the archipelago nation.
When Andy Williams sang “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” he was clearly caroling about Christmas, however most South Floridians would agree that stone crab season is truly the best time of year. Starting next week from October 15 through May 15, locals can feast on freshly caught claws around town at these notable restaurants with great offerings.
This week, Boulud Sud and Bulla Gastrobar host wine dinners, while Dasher & Crank offers an ice-cream-and-beer pairing with Oskar Blues and Cigar City. Plus, expect a pizza-and-prosecco deal at the Top Chef-owned restaurant Mi’talia Kitchen & Bar and a beachside movie with food and drinks at Etaru.
Stone crab season, South Florida’s favorite time of the year, begins October 15, which means you’ll soon see those sweet claws showing up on menus and at your favorite seafood market.
The South Beach eatery has been open since 2001.
