Crackers Casual Dining in Miami Springs opened up a little over two weeks ago, replacing the Riverside Grille. It’s the newest restaurant to open up in the suburban city near the airport and it labels itself as a Southern-style eatery.The term “Southern” is a broad category in regard to regional…
See also “100 Montaditos Opens In Midtown: Home Of The $1 Serrano Ham Sandwich.”100 Montaditos, the chain imported from Spain, continues to grow in South Florida today with the opening of its fifth outpost on the ground floor of the Vizcayne building (244 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami). As part of its…
Walking down Coral Way is like taking a trip around the world. Beneath the shade of the evergreen canopy created by the 90-year-old banyan trees that line Southwest 24th Street (the other name for Coral Way), doctors’ offices, law firms, Radio Caracol, banks, and gas stations make up a community…
If you don’t give restaurants enough attention, they get antsy. And in Miami, when restaurants get antsy in large numbers, you get a restaurant week.Attention is exactly what food businesses down south lack in the summer slow season. Its gaping absence has resulted in Coral Gables Restaurant Week in June,…
Bloom opens Tuesday, July 17 in Wynwood, but partners Jose Miguel Sarti and Sebastian Stahl are gearing up for the restaurant’s first anniversary. “We’ve been working on the space since last August”, Jose Miguel told me yesterday while walking me through the space.”We knew we wanted to look in Wynwood…
See also Miami Spice: Price Rise in 2012.When August in Miami hits, sometimes we think the only living creatures that successfully make it through the summer are alligators and mosquitoes. And then we remember Miami Spice and we know we can survive.Miami Spice starts August 1 and restaurants are gearing…
As a proper lush – you probably think you’ve sampled almost every spirit under the sun. But behold! A new option has arrived, ready to woo you with a fancy flavor profile and wild cocktail choices. The world’s first-ever agave nectar liqueur, Mariposa, is the freshest addition to the mixology…
Fabien’s Bistro, which quietly opened last month on Brickell Key, will be celebrating Bastille Day this Saturday with a $35 prix fixe menu that includes complimentary Kanon Organic Vodka cocktails. The special dinner (from 5 pm until close) starts with a charcuterie and cheese platter, segues into a choice of…
See also “Scenic Beaches, Dirt Roads, Fresh Fish.”Sun-burned tourists ride atop ATVs or horses, casually passing through Las Terrenas’ busy, bustling roads. At the former fishing village, both methods of transport coexist naturally, blurring a sense of magical realism within its tropical surrounding and somewhat urban experience.It suffices to say…
Villa Azur’s Pricey Mediterranean Fare Is Fresh but Nothing Special
Award-winning Coral Gables restaurant La Cofradia has finally become Mixtura, a Peruvian ceviche/pisco eatery with an affordable menu and plenty of seafood dishes. After numerous private tastings and much fine tuning, the newly named eatery is ready to conquer your taste buds. La Cofradia was a restaurant where business people met for specialty…
Actor Olivier Martinez confirmed his engagement to Halle Berry at a promotional affair for Villa Azur, which he co-owns with French friends Michael Martin and Jean Philippe Bernard. Martinez has been called “the French Brad Pitt.” Martin has been hosting nightlife parties at sundry South Beach clubs since he arrived…
See also Vegans Can Carbo Load in LA, Beet Reporter Finds Vegan Glory in LA Yesterday, my friends and I were walking up the Las Vegas strip in desiccating 115-degree heat. My skin felt deflated, dehydrated and stretched to my bones. I looked to my left and to my right and saw…
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Iron Side is an art complex by the railroad tracks in Miami’s Upper Eastside. Partners Fernando Nascimento and chef Nuno Grullon, both formerly of Metro Bistro, opened Iron Side Café within the complex about six months ago. Fernando is from Rio de Janeiro; Nuno is from the Bronx and learned to cook…
Picture a man and a woman, knives in hand, working their way through a jungle. The tree cover is so dense there’s barely any sunlight, and the air is rich with the scents of rain and greenery. After what seems like hours, they reach their prize. Is it a hidden temple filled…
A lone motorcycle raced through the coral dirt road, unraveling misty gusts of powdered sand. We were lost, and had already given up on reaching Playa Cosón, a beach off of Las Terrenas in the Dominican Republic.We waved the driver down. “Hey! Excuse me!” my father shouted in his loud,…
Yep, as of yesterday, Andrews Zimmern has been the “If it looks good, EAT IT!” host of perhaps the most unusual/disgusting/informative food show on cable, Bizarre Foods America, for 100 episodes. Most of the time, fans such as myself tune in, prepare to gag, have a barfee-in-the-tum-tum-moment, compose ourselves, and…
The food universe is infinite, which makes learning about it a never-ending pursuit. For decades I’ve been marinating various meats, but it wasn’t until I caught a rerun of America’s Test Kitchen on the local PBS station that I gleaned the secret to getting a marinade to truly penetrate and add…
Eat St., the fast-paced Cooking Channel show, will return to South Florida to film segments for season four of the show, which will focus on food trucks and their owners.The crew will fly in from Canada to film for nearly two weeks. According to the show’s researcher, the most difficult…
Taste of the Nation, the event that brings together Miami’s best chefs to benefit Share Our Strength, will celebrate its silver anniversary with a stellar lineup of food and drink.On Thursday, July 19, more than three dozen restaurants will offer their best bites to sample at the Turnberry Isle Resort. Some…
In my normal, South Beach-dwelling, plant-eating life, carbs play an important but purposely limited role. The best way to get fat on a vegan diet is to increase the ratio of grains to vegetables in your diet dramatically, so I try to stick to one to one and a half…
