100 Montaditos Opens New Location in Brickell, Launching New Menu

Like a pair of frisky rabbits, the 100 Montaditos chain is rapidly reproducing. This week, the South Florida empire officially expanded to Brickell, taking the total of local outposts to a whopping ten in less than two years. That’s some Duggar-speed baby-making. Read also: – 100 Montaditos Opens In Downtown…

Peruvian Restaurant MPP Brickell Opens on 7th Street

MPP Brickell opened on November 3 on the first floor of the Neo Vertika building on SW Seventh Street. The location, which was once occupied by the Mediterranean eatery, Andu, underwent some significant renovations. The space kept Andu’s basic layout, but the decor is less futuristic and more classic contemporary…

Todd Erickson Talks New Haven Menu, Huahua’s Taqueria

Haven Gastro-Lounge has launched a new fall menu, adding some items to take advantage of the Florida growing season and deleting some items that executive chef Todd Erickson felt didn’t fit into his global small plates vision.Read Also: Best Gastropub 2012: Haven LoungeErickson explained to Short Order, “Global small plates…

Burgerlicious Returns Tonight for a Second Time in the Gables

A second round of Burgerlicious returns to Coral Gables tonight at Fred B. Hartnett Ponce Circle Park where you will be greeted by burgers galore.Between 6 to 10 p.m. you’ll be able to sink your teeth into gourmet burgers made by more than 20 of Coral Gables’ top restaurants. Cost…

MC Kitchen to Open Next Week: What Dena Marino is Most Excited About

Dena Marino and partner Brandy Coletta have been working on MC Kitchen for about six months now. The Design District restaurant in the former Fratelli Lyon space, featuring modern Italian cuisine, has been completely reworked from the ground up, as evidenced by the restaurant’s “demolition” photo gallery on its Facebook…

Democratic Republic of Beer Opens Second Location

Hey downtown Miami, if you’re looking for a new happy hour place to grab a few brews with your crew, you’e got a new meeting place come Friday.Read also:- The DRB (Democratic Republic of Beer): Best Bottled Beer Selection 2010Democratic Republic of Beer, the small brew house with an outstanding…

Chefs Tweet About Obama Win

The election was called shortly before midnight. Barack Obama had surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to retain his position as Commander in Chief. But the real winner of the night was Twitter.According to Yahoo, President Obama’s personal tweet, “We’re all in this together. That’s how we campaigned, and that’s…

Review: Pinecrest Gardens Farmers’ Market

This market inside the lush Pinecrest Gardens is home to as many as 65 vendors during the high season, which begins December 1 and ends in mid-May. One of them is Copperpots, a tiny company owned by Tom Wilfong and his girlfriend, Vanessa Safie. Together, they produce jams and marmalades…

Kris Wessel on Why Red Light Little River Closed

Red Light Little River is closed.Read also:- Kris Wessel: Florida Cookery at the James Royal Palm is PersonalThe restaurant always seemed like dining at the small house party of a friend who cared more about making beautiful food than location, location, location.Miami’s Restaurant Power Rankings broke the story yesterday and…

Machiya Ramen Noodle House: Pricey Eats in Midtown

Machiya Ramen Noodle House has been open since October 15. “We hope you enjoy our soft opening menu.” These are the words printed on their single-sheet of offerings. For diners, this means a couple of things. First, the menu isn’t definitive. Second, the staff is in training, and the kitchen…

South Florida Web Awards: Meet Your Food Blogging Nominees

To say the web ties worlds together seamlessly with invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. So New Times is celebrating Miami’s greatest with our first annual South Florida Web Awards. We’ve scoured online media from news, to arts and culture, to food and music, and Twitter and…

BJ’s Brewhouse Opens in Palmetto Bay: A Root Beer Brewpub (Photos)

BJ’s Brewhouse, a pizza and brewpub-style restaurant chain from Santa Ana, California, opened at the Falls Shopping Center yesterday.The location is the second in the Miami market for the casual-dining restaurant, having first opened in Doral on October 16. The latest restaurant opening is part of an expansion at the…

Anthony Bourdain No Reservations: Last Stop, Brooklyn

After eight years of travel to far and exotic places, Anthony Bourdain has ended his tour with No Reservations “in a place as strange as Brooklyn” (That, by the way wasn’t Bourdain, but one of the opening lines of Sophie’s Choice by William Styron).Brooklyn is indeed a strange place. The “fourth…

House of Dog: Craft Beers, Crazy Topping in a Kosher Hideaway

Take a drive down 41st Street on Miami Beach and you’ll notice something Kosher is afoot. Almost all the eateries and markets in this part of town boast their offerings conform with Kashrut, Jewish dietary laws. On weekends, starting Friday evenings, black-clad Orthodox and Hasidic families take over the sidewalks,…

Review: Coconut Grove Farmers Market

Glaser Organic Farms occupies the largest tent at the Coconut Grove Farmers Market. Tracy Fleming, who has owned the farm with her husband, Stan, for more than 30 years, sells a variety of local and nonlocal produce. The tent is widely recognized for its locally processed, organic raw and vegan…

Biscayne Brewers Bash at Kovens Conference Center (Photos)

This past Sunday, members of B.R.E.W. FIU hosted their first annual Biscayne Brewers Bash in the pavilion of the Kovens Conference Center overlooking beautiful Biscayne Bay. The event hosted 15 local brewers serving over 40 different micro-brews. There was also a booth for beer bread and beer butter. The main…

The Hoxton: Replicating New England in Miami

In a matter of days The Hoxton emerged in the space formerly occupied by the now-closed Irish pub, Lucky Clover. It is a stripped down version of the former bar with a stark interior and a New England-inspired menu. All of the wood paneling and Irish flare was quickly pulled…