Dr Smood, a healthy fast food café/boutique opened its flagship store on Northeast Second Avenue in Wynwood during Art Basel week. As for the brand’s second location, it opens today on Sunset Drive in South Miami. What’s more, come 2016, Dr Smood will launch in Sunset Harbour and at the…
By the time Hy Vong closed on October 30, partners Kathy Manning and Tung Nguyen had had quite a week of ups and downs. The restaurant owners announce they were closing their Calle Ocho restaurant after over three decades of service, only to be issued a last minute reprieve by the…
This time of year calls for guilt-free “pig-out” sessions, and a handful of Miami restaurants are giving the phrase a literal meaning by serving hogs on their seasonal menus. Considered a ‘farm-to-table’ delicacy, a suckling pig or cochinillo asado is a traditional holiday treat made with an entire piglet roasted whole…
Some serious sweet tooth indulgence is happening this weekend at Burger Beast’s 2015 SugaPie Festival. Sef Gonzalez’s Burger Beast blog has been hosting culinary events for nearly five years, but for the first time, desserts will be the stars of the show. For just 20 bucks, you can enjoy all-inclusive, unlimited…
Miami is an ever-changing city. People who haven’t been here in five years likely wouldn’t recognize the changing landscape filled with new high rises, added museums, and ever-gentrifying neighborhoods. One of the biggest shape-shifters is our local restaurant scene. In any given month, it’s typical for a dozen or so…
During last evening’s showing movie, Adonis Creed runs through the streets of Philadelphia. As a rap song segues into the familiar strains of the Rocky theme, I sip my mojito, sharing Creed’s moment of joy and triumph as he realizes that he is ready for his shot at the title…
In the midst of the crazy rush to start the season, Spike Mendelsohn’s casual surfer-inspired restaurant, Sunny’s, opened last month inside The Hall South Beach Hotel (1500 Collins ave., Miami Beach). The property itself, is a beautiful renovation of the Art Deco Haddon Hall hotel, originally designed by L. Murray Dixon,…
It’s just after sunset Thursday night in Coconut Grove and Ergon Greek Deli + Cuisine (2982 Grand Ave., 305-442-9280) seems almost abandoned. A teenage cashier twiddles on a cell phone. Flies buzz under glass shielding a grapefruit-size bread loaf studded with olives and salty feta cubes ($3). One bite, and…
Chefs Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth might have left Miami for the bright lights of New York, but the duo are planning a big return to South Florida with two restaurants in the works. Sarsaparilla Club is set to open at the former Morimoto space in the Shelborne Wyndham Grand…
After days of rain, we are finally back to sunny South Florida weather (we hope!) And this means it’s time to cool off outside with the beloved mojito, Miami’s unofficial drink, which captures summer all year-round.. No other libation is as emblematic of Magic City as this one, offering a…
At Barton G. The Restaurant, food transforms into art and dinner becomes an experience. The 15-year-old South Beach locale is known for its eccentric food presentations, and its latest iteration Barton G.’s “Art of Being Social” menu brings to life a diner’s wildest cuisine fantasies. The restaurant, conceived by Barton G. Weiss, a restaurateur,…
In just a few short weeks, NaiYaRa will finally open at 1854 Bay Rd. in Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood. The eatery by Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, known to most of Miami as Chef Bee, was first announced about two years ago, but delays, including the massive street closures and construction in the…
Nobu recently reopened its new location at the Eden Roc Hotel. The restaurant is the first part of a major renovation for the landmark Miami Beach hotel, with one of its towers being renovated to become Nobu Hotel at Eden Roc. Once complete, the project, a partnership among chef Nobuyuki “Nobu”…
When Tomas Strulovic signed the lease for True Loaf, his popular bakery in Sunset Harbour, he didn’t know how to make bread. You would never guess this biting into one of his pristine homemade sourdoughs, or whilst savoring the store’s picture perfect croissants. They’re just as a good —- if…
Each bite-size clam belly bursts like a seawater-flavored Gusher. The fried, slightly bitter orbs are an acquired taste, but at Izzy’s Fish & Oyster on Washington Avenue, the $24 appetizer is a bona fide hit. This came as a shock even for chef-owner Jamie DeRosa, who says his wife Amy…
Miami’s horrendous weather put a damper on many outdoor Art Basel activities, with heavy hitters like Damien HIrst cancelling out on dinners and shows last minute because of mother nature. Art Basel wasn’t the only casualty of the weather, however. Zoo Miami announced its closure due to the weather. Heavy rains…
When South Street, the Motown-inspired Design District eatery closed in spring 2013, abruptly closed, there was but one notice on Facebook to let its fans know: “South Street is closed… STAY TUNED FOR WHAT’S NEXT.” The restaurant, a collaboration between Amaris Jones, a self-described “lifestyle consultant, dot connector, visionary, lover, sister,…
Two months after parting ways with Michael Schwartz’s Cypress Room Tavern, Roel Alcudia is now leading the small blue-and-white kitchen that feeds Mandolin Aegean Bistro’s perpetually packed patio. He’ll also oversee the Mandolin inside Soho Beach House, which opened earlier this year. Alcudia said Mandolin owners Anastasia Koutsioukis and Ahmet Erkaya…
It’s a busy week. Whole Foods is selling freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies for 25 cents through tomorrow and Vegan Fusion,a nationally recognized pop-up cooking academy, is offering a five-day raw cuisine immersion beginning today. On Tuesday, Slow Food Miami is hosting its fourth ‘”Snail Social” at The Wynwood Yard, and…
When Muriel Olivares, co-owner of Little River Cooperative (360 NE 154th St.), arrived at her North Miami-Dade farm on Friday morning, all she saw was water. Her vegetable and herb gardens, normally lush and vibrant, were submerged under inches of cloudy, soil-filled rainwater, appearing more like a pond than a field…
If your favorite Wynwood haunt, Wood Tavern, is crazy with out of towners this Art Basel weekend, there’s a new place opening a stone’s throw that’s worth exploring. The Bar Next Door opens Saturday, December 5, just a few doors down from Wood Tavern at 2519 NW Second Ave. in the…
While Miami is obsessed with Art Basel this weekend, the rest of the world is gleefully awaiting the December 18 release of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. Of course, many works at Art Basel and Miami Art Week take inspiration from pop culture and movie references. So, when Jonathan…
