If you’re looking for something to spice up your Wednesday, you’re in luck. How does free lunch sound? Get some free midday grub today by sending a simple tweet. On the menu: Hamburgers and veggie burgers, courtesy of Verizon Wireless. Verizon and Fooji, an on-demand food ordering service, will fulfill…
Your ideas about bibimbap may have been formed during a visit to the ethnic enclaves of Koreatown in New York or California—cities overabundant in tasty traditional Korean cuisine—or perhaps in its motherland with an extra side of gochujang. But odds are you have never tried anything like the bibimbap way…
Jaya, a modern Asian-inspired resto, will open in The Setai in late November with Chopped champion executive chef Mathias Gervais. Gervais won the Sept. 17 episode of the Food Network’s Chopped. Jaya will replace the hotel’s signature eatery, The Restaurant. Hotel reps say renovations, like an open kitchen design, will be made…
It seems the old adage, “when one door closes, another one opens” rings true for Masaharu Morimoto — at least when it comes to Florida restaurants. The Iron Chef is closing Morimoto South Beach on September 30, just about one year after the date of its opening. The restaurant’s publicist…
The past year has been rough for Teena’s Pride. First, Teena Borek, the namesake and matriarch of the decades old Homestead farm suffered a stroke. Later the farm’s website was hacked, forcing a website overhaul. Meanwhile, Borek’s plans to recuperate and get back to running the community supported agriculture program…
It’s been almost a decade since Jared Galbut and Keith Menin teamed up to take over the Sanctuary South Beach. The cousins had long run businesses like car washes together as kids and worked in hotels as teenagers, but 2005 marked a next step for the then-20-somethings. Since then, the…
Yesterday, Pope Francis met with Fidel and Raul Castro then led a mass where hundreds of thousands of believers in Havana’s Revolution Plaza, stopping in the Island nation as part of his whirlwind 10 day-long visit to the United States. With a non-stop schedule, one wonders when the Holy See has…
Fooq’s chef Nicole Votano has parted ways with the restaurant less than a year after the hip, homestyle eatery opened on a shady downtown Miami’s corner in the space once filled by Nemesis Urban Bistro. She’ll be become chef de cuisine at DIRT, according to a restaurant spokeswoman. The curiously…
Uncle Tom’s Barbecue is in a growth spurt. The restaurant that has been serving up ribs to Miami denizens since 1948, opens the doors to its latest location in Homestead, today. The barbecue mecca starts serving today at 11 a.m. at 128 N. Krome Ave. in Homestead’s historic downtown district…
Cuba may be known as the land that spice forgot, but that hasn’t stopped Cuban-American chefs from trying to build upon their list of hearty homestyle classics. It all started with Douglas Rodriguez, widely recognized as the godfather of Nuevo Latino cuisine. Lately Alberto Cabrera of the recently refurbished Bread…
Michelle Barnstein, the James-Beard award-winning chef, cares about what you eat. That’s why she wants you to take a selfie with your favorite produce and tag #DrinkGoodDoGood. Bernstein is the Miami ambassador for the Naked Juice and Wholesome Wave #DrinkGoodDoGood campaign, which will donate up to 500,000 pounds of produce…
How bad can Monday really be with some free beer? Grovetoberfest is back with a free beer tasting Monday night at MIA Brewing. If you’re in the mood for something more intimate, head over to Terrazza at the Shore Club for their chef’s table series. Start your Tuesday morning with…
Footballer, model, and actor David Beckham was in Miami for the launch of Haig Club Scotch Whisky, hosting a week’s worth of parties at Al Capone’s former estate on Palm Island. The whisky company, by the way, tricked out the entire mansion and grounds, sparing no expense in building walls,…
Oktoberfest started in Munich on October 12, 1810, as a five-day celebration of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig’s marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. During the following years, Oktoberfest became a celebration of Bavarian culture, music, and food. This year, Oktoberfest in Munich starts tomorrow, September 19 and runs trhough October 4,…
Friday’s here and this weekend is filled with amazing events and happenings. There’s so much to do and so little time. You can celebrate the official start of Oktoberfest in Munich right in Wynwood, enjoy a sophisticated beachside event, have a bourbon-fueled brunch, or dine from food trucks. You can…
Piripi, the Miami Beach Spanish-fusion restaurant, has transformed what diners know as traditional Sunday brunch to a two-day “espectacular,” running every Saturday and Sunday. The menu showcases recently appointed executive chef Angelina Bastidas’ twist on traditional Latin cuisine with a three-course prix fixe menu for $27 per person. Start off slow with…
Miami Spice, much like the wet and sticky summer months it coincides with, has almost run its course. For those who still have room in their stomachs – and more importantly perhaps, money in their wallets – for another stab at the almost 200 restaurants offering $23 pre-fixe lunch and…
On Monday September 21, Ferran Adrià, of elBulli fame, is coming to town to speak at a Gastronomy Congress taking place at the Miami-Dade College Chapman Conference Center. Together with Lluís Garcia, director of the elBulli foundation and former elBulli restaurant director, Adrià will give a presentation focused on the future of…
Lucali, Mark Iacono’s famed Brooklyn pizza parlor outpost in Sunset Harbour, can do no wrong. If you haven’t had their inimitable pies (the best in Miami), hard to believe colossal all-beef meatballs, eggplant parmigiana, and Nutella ricotta calzone, you’re sort of missing out on life. Sometimes, just sometimes you find…
If you look at any television or movie depiction of Miami Beach, you’ll probably see flamingos. Those delightful pink creatures seem to turn up in everyone’s dream vision of Miami, yet when was the last time you actually saw a real, live flamingo? Wouldn’t seeing a flock of these birds…
When is a bar both the hottest and the coolest around? When it’s Drinkhouse Fire & Ice, which soft opened this past weekend. The lounge is the brainchild of partners Sally Drinkhouse and Nicole Prichett, and a culmination of two years of planning.Though there are ice bars in most major…
It seems every other storefront in downtown Miami offers up sandwiches stuffed with processed lunch meat and salads stacked on flaccid greens. Recently there have been a few respites like Niu Kitchen, Cafe Pastis, Burrito-San, and Peruvian sandwiches at Station 28, but still many of the area’s businesses take a…
