Food & Drink

While shopping for diamonds and handbags in the Design District, you might have come across a pastel-pink banner on 39th Street announcing the upcoming Swan and Bar Bevy.

Etaru, Zuma’s sister restaurant in Hallandale Beach, will open a location in Fort Lauderdale this summer. The expansion comes less than a year after the modern Japanese robatayaki debuted in August 2017.

A blast of heat greets everyone who steps onto the floor of Gilda Industries Inc.’s factory at 2525 W. Fourth Ave. in Hialeah. Overhead, tens of thousands of crackers, otherwise known as galletas and not to be confused with the sweeter cookies of a similar name, zip by on conveyor…

Italian chain North Italia will churn out brick-oven pizza and house-made pasta in Mary Brickell Village beginning this fall. The restaurant, which joins more than a dozen other locations across the nation, will be the first in Florida.

Gaijin Izakaya by Cake has quietly closed. The Japanese-style gastropub, where chef Phuket “Cake” Thongsodchaveondee served sushi and hot dishes, was open just shy of a year.

More than a year and a half after opening Fi’lia at the SLS Brickell, Michael Schwartz has dived into Miami’s brunch scene with Italian-inspired small plates, bottomless cocktails, and a South Beach-style DJ in the restaurant’s courtyard.

Forget fancy cocktails to celebrate Star Wars Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Derby Day. Dasher & Crank is behind a slate of limited-edition holiday-themed flavors, from mint julep to mango chili lime.

The Shore Club will soon fry up house-made tortillas and serve mezcal from carts at its new restaurant. Set to open in late spring or early summer, Diez y Seis will replace the hotel’s Italian eatery, Terrazza.

An all-day doughnut breakfast bar is coming to Miami. Pastry chef Max Santiago expects to open the shop — the first of its kind — by spring 2019. Find a lineup of breakfast-inspired sweet and savory doughnuts using what he calls a “new and perfected brioche doughnut recipe.”

April can best be described as the month of healthy eating in South Florida.Jackson Hall opened with six health conscious concepts, while Vegan Fine Foods offers an entire marketplace of plant-based goods.Other notable openings include Chotto Matte on Miami Beach and Malibu Farm at the Eden Roc. In May, look forward to the opening of Stephen Starr’s El Vez and Tap 42’s largest location, at Aventura Mall.

Stocked with doughnut-size warm cookies and fresh batches of nitrogen ice cream, the Davie-based dessert shop Phenomenom is now open in south Miami-Dade. “Pinecrest is a special location for us,” owner Chuck Woodard says. “Not only did I grow up there, but my family has been in the community for…