Philippe, chef Philippe Chow’s high-end Chinese restaurant, has closed its Gansevoort Miami Beach location. Fans of Chef Chow’s lettuce wraps and Peking duck need not despair — the restaurant will reopen with two new locations in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood and Boca Raton. A call to the Miami Beach restaurant was…
Dwyane Wade is looking for a new line of work. Because of the NBA lockouts, the Miami Heat star has been tweeting he’s looking for gainful employment. His list of accomplishments include making balloon animals (who knew he was so talented?) and working well with others. That’s apparently enough for Kentucky…
Latin House Grill has two reasons to celebrate tonight. It’s the food truck’s first anniversary, and the owners are launching a second mobile, LH2. As with most birthdays, los grilleros are throwing a party and inviting everyone. At the Tropical Park food truck roundup tonight, you can munch to your…
Chefs E. Michael Reidt of Area 31, Sean Brasel of Meat Market, and Kris Wessel of Red Light are teaming up next week to raise money for Common Threads, an organization that teaches low-income children how to cook and eat healthy.The three chefs will prepare a five-course meal at Area…
If you were to judge Gables Aragon Cuisine (141 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables) by its suggestively ambiguous name, you probably wouldn’t give it a chance. You might not even guess what they serve. Opened just three months ago, the Mexican restaurant just received a liquor license. Bring on the margaritas!…
Whoo boy. Another steakhouse. Yippee. That’s what we thought when we received the invitation from the new Kane Steakhouse’s public relations company to come in and chow down. Now we’re never ones to turn down a free meal but, really, a new steakhouse on South Beach? That ranked up there…
We pretty much have to be drunk to find ourselves eating hydrogenated oil and FD&C Blue #1-infused grub at fast food chains like Sonic or Burger King. But maybe that’s the strategy some greasy food peddlers are banking on: that lots of people are down to order triple-fried fries and…
Eat Street, the Cooking Channel show that features America’s best and craziest food trucks, was in Miami this weekend to film three of Miami’s favorite food trucks. Mr. Good Stuff, Dim Ssam a Gogo and Latin Burger were the three trucks chosen to be featured on three different episodes for…
When you smoke herb, it reveals your food to yourself. Sure, you can live your whole life eating nothing but processed industrial food type products, and we love pork fat, and gas station patties as much as the next schlub, but it’s good to try new things.Every Saturday at Glaser…
downtown Miami, street peddlers and nine-to-fivers make way for hip urbanites lighting up the highrises. The latest addition to this new urban oasis is Kork, a wine and cheese bar due to open the first week of August. The 3000 square foot watering hole is more reminiscent of a Medieval…
There are very few places left unscathed by the tricks and trends of today’s dessert experience. There are even fewer that stay true to their initial inspiration. Todo Frio Ice Cream N More is an exception. A rare find. An original. The quirky decor and ode to Cuban nostalgia make…
In the world of puritan health foodies, Welch’s grape, Capri Sun, and even Tropicana are not acceptable examples of “juice.” The word, and associated terms like “juice fasting,” “juicing,” or “on the juice,” instead refer to the nutrient-rich liquid produced by the complete removal of skin, pulp, pits, and fiber…
Rafael Almeida and Armando Marsans made their major league baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds on July 4, 1911. Both men were Cuban — and as the national pastime was segregated back then, Reds management made sure to remind fans these players were purebred Spaniards with no African blood. The…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premieres tonight in New York and opens around the country Friday. The end of an era is here. We’ve spent the last ten years prowling Hogwarts after hours and meeting freaky people. In the last decade, we have discovered chocolate frogs, sugar…
There are so many restaurants in South Beach that we love, it was really hard to choose one for Best of Miami 2011. But what to do? Well, there could only be one winner, Pubbelly, but we have so many more favorites. With that in mind, we now present other…
To celebrate its one month anniversary, BGR the Burger Joint’s owner Sean Grimberg will give away 50 free milkshakes to the first customers who order a gourmet burger with a side. You can line up Sunday at 11 a.m. to try the classic vanilla bean, double chocolate, or strawberry, or…
About two years ago, food trucks began appearing in Miami almost as if by magic. Then, like rabbits, they started to multiply. But did anyone stop to think what went on in the lives of food truck owners before they started serving yummy food on the go? We asked and got…
The ever popular Wynwood Kitchen & Bar welcomes a new kitchen leader. Miguel Aguilar has been appointed Executive Chef, replacing the Goldman’s longtime collaborator, Marco Ferraro, who continues to helm Wish at The Hotel on SoBe. There’s no official comment on the reasons behind the switch-up, but it’s clear that…
It was a lively scene last night at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle in Aventura. Forty local chefs cooked to raise money for programs to feed children in need. The place wasn’t too crowded, making it easy to navigate the large ballroom to…
According to NASA, the last space shuttle launch of STS-135 will take place at 11:26 this morning (be sure to turn on the TV). Just as space flight has evolved, so has the astronaut’s diet of what used to be Tang and tubes of ham salad and cheddar cheese. In…
Andrew Balick, the former Azul sous chef who opened the Cadet Hotel’s Pied a Terre in March, is no longer working at the restaurant. “It was time to leave unfortunately,” said Balick, whose last day was June 30. “From day one there were a lot of differences between the ownership…
While the rain is keeping us cool (and entirely too wet) today, we need something slightly more potent for the rest of summer’s 80-90 degree weather. One solution? Today’s Miami Deal on the VOICE Daily Deals site offers $40 worth of drinks and food at CocoWalk’s Central Beer Garden for only $20.The restaurant, which opened…
