When Under the Mango Tree opened in early 2011, owner Patricia Olesen had four juices and four smoothies on the menu, along with a hair extension business operating out of a spare back room she put up for rent. Fast-forward four years later and the sliver of a space in…
When The Lunchbox opens this Friday, June 19, at 78 NW 25th St., Wynwood will get its most high tech restaurant yet. Restaurant owner Carlos Dorado, has spent months building out the restaurant to exact specifications in the hopes of creating the first zero-waste restaurant in Miami. The Johnson & Wales…
After just a six-month run, Ted’s at YoungArts is set to close after its last dinner service on Saturday, June 20. The Miami Herald reports that the restaurant will “cease operation as an ongoing restaurant to focus on alumni performances”. The restaurant/performance space, located on the seventh floor of YoungArts…
Grab your plutonium, rev that engine to 88 mph, and hang on tight: It’s time for a journey to Miami’s red-hot present. After all, Marty McFly traveled to 2015 in Back to the Future Part II. So consider nearly 350 of our picks for the best places to snag late-night…
More and More, Miami Beach’s popularity has proven to be a double edged sword for both locals and budget-minded travelers who find themselves priced out of the tony hotels and expensive bars and restaurants. Lately, howeer, there’s been a renaissance of affordable hotels and bars that offer good service and…
Try to find a quick French lunch downtown and you’re faced with a rubbery baguette layered with industrial brie and some overly salted, greasy saucisson sec. No more. Chef Philippe Jacquet has expanded his much loved, longstanding Cafe Pastis in South Miami to a downtown Miami street whose lunchtime cafes…
Grab your plutonium, rev that engine to 88 mph, and hang on tight: It’s time for a journey to Miami’s red-hot present. After all, Marty McFly traveled to 2015 in Back to the Future Part II. So consider nearly 350 of our picks for the best places to snag late-night…
Grab your plutonium, rev that engine to 88 mph, and hang on tight: Best of Miami 2015 is almost here! Here’s a preview of one of the winners, but check out the entire issue when it hits miamnewstimes.com/bestof tomorrow and newsstands Thursday, June 18. Niu Kitchen 134 NE Second Ave…
Lots of drinking and eating to be done this week so let’s get right to it. From two new happy hours on South Beach (one Mediterranean and one Korean) to a Wine Bar taking over the Moore Building on Thursday and pitting 16 of Miami’s top sommeliers against each other,…
The 8th annual Coral Gables Restaurant Week is in full bloom, which means you’ve got T-minus 16 days to eat your way through 34 eateries, all of which are dishing out pre fixe menus of their best offerings at a discounted rate of up to 20 percent (some even more)…
If you’re unfamiliar with polpettone, you won’t be after visiting Fornaro in Coconut Grove. At this one month-old restaurant, the Italian meatloaf-like dish reigns supreme. You can get polpettone on top of your pizza, or inside a panini, and of course you can order the polpettone on its own ($14.90)…
Summer is here and so is Miami’s tropical fruit season. There are two events that celebrate our rich crops of mangos, lychees, jackfruit, and more. There is also cold beer at Wynwood’s Art Walk. And BTW, there’s a special surprise if your name happens to be Anthony! Weekend starts now! Redland…
Boating season is back and along with it comes the Boat Bar Crawl, which is exactly what you think it is: bar hopping around Miami on a boat. So if you want to live out your own version of Lonely Island and T-Pain’s “I’m on a Boat,” hop aboard the…
Each July, the sultry city of New Orleans gets even hotter when thousands of bar professionals, spirits professionals, and drinking enthusiasts gather for Tales of the Cocktail. Part industry convention, part open bar, the event started in 2003, as a celebration of New Orleans drinking culture. Over a decade later,TOTC…
Nothing quite says brunch in French like galette de sarrasin au jambon et fromage. Translation: buckwheat crepes with ham, gruyere cheese, and béchamel. The authentically French dish comes from a small fishing village in Brittany where they refer to the crepes (made from white wheat flour and pancakes from buckwheat…
If you’re a die hard fan of OTC’s Korean chicken and waffles, hefty craft beer list, or 2015 Burgie award-winning green chili & bacon burger, be tter make your way to the Brickell hotspot before Father’s Day, cause June 21 will be the gastropub’s last day of service. Surprised? Join…
To quote a recent article from New York Times food critic Pete Wells, “You go to Milos for creatures that circulate in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic and generally migrate to New York only when somebody buys them a plane ticket.” Well, the same applies to the Miami outpost…
Avra Jain’s Vagabond Group is expanding its paradise portfolio— although this piece of paradise is far removed from Miami. Jain and the Vagabond Group have announced they are partnering with Jamaican hospitality veteran Mary Phillips and Ortanique on the Mile’s Cindy Hutson and Delius Shirley on a new project in…
When Dario Cestaro opened Buon Pane Italiano on Miami Beach in mid-April he quickly realized he couldn’t keep up with the bounty of breads, pizzas and pies Alberto Lionetti began pumping out at 3 a.m. that morning. “He was able to make 40 different things, and I didn’t even know…
Miami New Times’ Iron Fork, the official Miami Spice kickoff event presented by the Downtown Miami Development Authority, has just announced the two Miami chefs brave enough to duke it out on stage in a battle of wits, skill, and culinary prowess. And this time, the women are running the…
Yes, breakfast tacos are a thing. Perhaps you are familiar with their big brother, the breakfast burrito. Or maybe you know their crazy tio the Honduran baleada — a burrito and taco hybrid. And then, there’s that mess Taco Bell created last year: the waffle taco. Since Miami is having…
Moroccan chef Najat Kaanache who until today helmed he widely publicized, big budget Merrick Park restaurant Piripi have parted ways due to accusations of unfair labor practices. “The restaurant’s owners became aware of the ex-employees’ complaints today for the first time,” spokeswoman Karen Barofsky wrote in an email. “They are…
