There’s no better way to start a meal than with a puff of steam floating off a bamboo tray packed with swollen soup dumplings. At Momi Gyoza Bar, which joined the fray in Brickell two months ago, chef and owner Jeffrey Chen’s version of xiao long bao relies on the…
Juicing is the new eating, and with reason. It’s no secret that veggie and fruit laden beverages pack a ton of antioxidants and help cleanse your body. But when you’re drinking juice and only juice, you can get a bit, um, irritable. See also: Ten Fruit’s Juice Cleanse: What It’s…
Sprung, the Spring beer festival at Coconut Grove’s Peacock Park, featured everything beer-related one could want in an afternoon. thousands of brew enthusiasts donning beer goggles, lederhosen, and their favorite brewery’s logos gathered on a cloudy day to sample beer, listen to music, and play beer pong. What made Sprung…
Whether you got Sprung!, indulged in an overload of barbecue, or hit up the PGA Championship at the Trump, one thing is certain: You’re unhappy about Monday’s arrival. Turn that frown upside down, because there are lots of food and drink happenings to cheer you up, beginning with kicking it…
Vegans know that the word “Mediterranean” in a restaurant’s name generally means there’s something there to eat. We are grateful for this, even though the warmest thing about our dinners is usually the toasted pita bread that comes with chilly plates of hummus, baba ganouj, and tabouleh. Not so with…
Much like the $500-per-head dinner celebrating the life and work of Spanish chef Juan Mari Arzak went virtually unmentioned during the recent South Beach Wine & Food Festival, so did big news from another top Spanish chef. Quique Dacosta, the recipient of three Michelin stars for his eponymous restaurant in…
The Broken Shaker’s Bar Lab Boys, Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta, like to change things up. A constantly rotating monthly menu of libations synchronzed with the seasons is usually the name of the game at the popular bar. So it should come as no surprise that the brunch at 27…
Happy Friday! Now that you’ve made it through the week, there’s much to do his weekend, so get cracking. From dining al fresco to sampling hundreds of beers from 62 different breweries (all in one place) to comparing barbecue styles from around the globe, there’s a bar, a party, or…
There’s nothing new about restaurant reservation apps. Calling a restaurant to speak with an actual person was long ago replaced by sites like OpenTable and Yelp Reservations. But now, new dining apps promise access to tables at popular restaurants at peak hours — at a cost. Resy and Table8 have…
Oysters and wine will soon join the miniature Japanese empire Jeffrey Chen is building on a streetcorner near Brickell Avenue. Chen, who opened Momi Ramen in 2012 and Momi Gyoza Bar in January, plans to launch Momi Oyster & Raw Bar and Momi Wine later this month. See also: Momi…
With restaurants opening and closing every month, it’s difficult to keep track of those that have truly stood the test of time — the oldies but goodies. To help identify Miami’s classic eateries, New Times consulted with an expert on Miami culinary history, Mandy Baca. The result is a list…
Wynwood’s Coyo Taco is pretty straightforward: a fast-casual place to get tacos, guacamole, and Jarritos. But step beyond the small dining area and past the bathrooms, and you’ll find a secret lounge. There, more than 50 bottles of tequila and mezcal glow by the light of novena candles. It’s a…
Three short months into business, SooWoo — a Japanese/Korean restaurant located just off Fifth Street and Washington Avenue in South Beach — has been shuttered. The place, which occupied a variety of locales before moving to the Beach, got off to a rocky start after several employees claimed — and…
Restaurant chain Bagatelle has opened a South Beach location at 2000 Collins Ave., giving Miami’s beautiful people another place to sip champagne in a fairy-tale setting. With locations already in the tony cities of New York, Los Angeles, São Paulo, St. Barts, and St. Tropez, Bagatelle was fated to come…
Klima hasn’t even opened yet and already the Spanish restaurant has hosted the master of New Basque cuisine, Juan Mari Arzak. In 1989, he was awarded three Michelin stars for his namesake restaurant in Spain, Arzak. Along with fellow three-Michelin-starred chefs Andoni Luis Aduriz of Mugaritz and Quique Dacosta of…
For tired, browbeaten cube-dwellers, happy hour is a savior. It’s honored by omnivores and vegans alike, despite the fact that bar bites aren’t generally heavy on the plants. Luckily, Whole Foods downtown Miami has launched a Vegan Happy Hour series designed to school people on how to make plant-based versions…
Buns & Buns is the only fast-casual restaurant to compete on Bravo’s culinary competition, Best New Restaurant, but don’t call it that. “Gastro fast. That’s what we call it,” says owner Alex Zibi, adding he’s not aware of any other restaurant that follows the same concept — or uses that…
Dale Talde is bringing his Brooklyn born-and-bred Talde to the Thompson Miami Beach Hotel this summer. Talde, along with partners David Massoni and John Bush, has already begun work on the space, located in the southeast corner of the hotel. Although Talde is situated in what can be described as…
“There are too many Neapolitan-style pizza places in Miami,” say some idiotas. They are wrong! Pizza is always a welcome addition to the neighborhood, especially when you’re in Wynwood and there’s such a thing as Taco Pizza Tuesday. Yep. Taco Pizza Tuesday is officially happening. The man behind the idea…
Walk into Boxelder and the first thing you notice is a hexagonal mirror configuration on the wall. Besides being pretty to look at, it has a shape that’s representative of the molecular structure of fermentation. That’s an indicator of how serious the folks behind Wynwood’s first craft beer market are…
Chef Ryan Martin quietly took over the Democratic Republic of Beer’s location at 501 NE First Ave. about six months ago, changing nearly everything about the beer hall. That could explain the new name: 180 Degrees at DRB. Martin explains that the beer-bar-turned-gastropub has retained its DRB label because of…
Where and how Cuban ice-cream sandwiches began is a mystery even at Tío Colo Bocaditos de Helado, the Hialeah shop that pumps out hundreds a day. “It’s an older thing, I think, from before the revolution,” says Rosali Verdecia, age 23, who along with her husband, Jose Hernandez, opened the…
