In honor of man’s best friend and a great cause, Lokal is introducing the first ever Yappy Hour today. Yappy hours are a thing in Fort Lauderdale and basically invites your dog to drink with you at happy hour. OK, so maybe your dog doesn’t drink but he keeps you…
If you were one of the many at Broken Shaker’s Bloody Mary competition yesterday, then we feel your pain this Monday. We hope you didn’t say anything about no drinking till the weekend, because this week starts with bourbon and ends with beer. From a bourbon pairing dinner at Meat…
Two years ago, Miam Cafe’s owner, Alexis Jacot, was on vacation with his wife from Switzerland, when he fell in love with the idea of opening a cafe in Wynwood. The former Proctor & Gamble executive noticed a vacancy inside the Wynwood Building and, right then and there, made a…
Happy Friday. If you’ve been inside just about any store, you’ve noticed pumpkins, ghouls,and candy on display — which means that Miami is gearing up for fall — even though it’s still about a grillion degrees outside. With fall come some amazing activities like football (and tailgates!), walks in the…
The fifth annual Sam Adams Octoberfest in Miami will be held at Soho Studios in Wynwood on September 19 and 20. It has been taken over by Tony Albelo of Social House Events and Javi Zayas of Zevents. The details of the switch are a bit murky, but the past…
Have you been late to indulge in Miami Spice meals? Have no fear, some of the September menus were worth waiting for. While it isn’t necessary to change up your spice menu from August to September, some restaurants choose to do so, and we are grateful. (There are even those…
On the heels of releasing his second cookbook, the tireless, social media-happy Antonio Bachour will open his own eponymous bakery and caf� on Brickell Avenue. Bachour, who will remain executive pastry chef at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort, finalized plans for his 1,700-square-foot space at 600 Brickell Ave. late…
New Times’ Pairings is next week and you don’t want to miss this event that features dishes from the best South Florida restaurants, each specially paired with a wine or beer to compliment every delicious bite. Just one week from today, on Thursday, September 18, from 7 to 10 p.m.,…
It’s a question posed to every vegan at one time or another: What’s wrong with eating eggs and dairy? They don’t kill the animals, so what’s the problem? But as on Instagram, things aren’t always what they appear. Dig a little deeper and the realities of dairy and egg farms…
The husband-and-wife team of Yona and Tunu Puri are opening Tamarina, a new restaurant-bar concept at 600 Brickell Ave., in the former Lippi space. See also: Ten Best Brickell Restaurants…
In Colombia, there is an export grown that is prized the world over for its quality and energizing properties. That crop is, of course, coffee. Coffee has been thought to have been grown in the mountainous South American country since the early 1700s, when Jesuits brought coffee seeds with them…
After previously covering Top Ten Lunch Specials in Miami for Under $10 and Best Food Items in Miami for $1 it was time to find some middle ground with that midday meal. A $5 lunch should leave you just full enough and with the sweet satisfaction that you got a…
At Brickell’s Bistro BE, among the first authentic Belgian eateries in Miami, the steenedorpskonijn met pruimen en geuze takes extra time to arrive. The waitress, frittering away on a cell phone in a dim, gray-walled dining room, forgot to send the order for the rabbit stew to the kitchen. Plus,…
In a low-slung strip mall near Krome Avenue in Homestead, the steel-and-glass front door of La Michoacana Paletería y Nevería swings open into an orange-and-gray-tiled shop. A half-dozen flat-screen TV sets blare Spanish-language news and telenovelas as you make your way to a long display case holding row after row…
Get ready, Hialeah, because at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23, the “Hot Now” light turns on at the opening of the new Krispy Kreme shop in Hialeah. The bakery, located at 1597 W 49th St., will celebrate its grand opening with some great freebies – including free doughnuts for…
The much-anticipated pool bar at Vagabond Hotel is officially open for business. The place received its liquor license just this week and is ready to welcome the neighborhood and hotel guests in the newly renovated, retro-luxe space. While the pool is open to hotel guests only, the hotel’s bar will…
More infomation is coming out about the recent lawsuit filed on behalf of Ayler Ayala, a former cashier at Miami International Airport. The complaint, filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, claims she experienced discrimination and harassment by her former employers, Global Concessions Inc., Gateway Airport Concessions Inc., and Airport Concessions Group…
Last evening, an intimate group of people gathered at the SLS Hotel South Beach, not for a cocktail party or to f�te a supermodel, but for an evening that was much more cerebral — although food and drink were certainly involved. Ferran Adri�, arguably the world’s most award-winning chef and…
Just south of NE 79th Street and west of Biscayne Boulevard is a soon-to-be-hot neighborhood called Ironside. Started by a local visionary, Ofer Mizrahi, it is still mostly warehouses and commercial space on the railroad tracks. But it is becoming a trendy, unique, and green-friendly atmosphere of hipster realism. One…
Starting tonight, Petit Miami will begin a new kind of ladies night special that will require you to meet up with your girlfriends more often. Every Tuesday night, tables of ladies with reservations will receive complimentary glasses of wine all-night long with their dinner. Talk about girl power!…
A former Versailles restaurant worker has filed a discrimination and harassment lawsuit that includes sordid allegations of sexual misconduct by Versailles’ Felipe Valls Sr. According to the lawsuit, filed this past August 29 in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Ayler Ayala was a cashier at Miami International Airport from May 15, 2010,…
Finding locally grown, organic produce in Miami is easier these days, particularly during Florida’s whacky winter harvest season. Finding protein on par with it, however, is a whole different game that requires more time and research to ensure you get what you pay for. Forager Juan Rochaix, owner of Seriously…
