When Joan Nathan wrote her most recent cookbook, King Solomon’s Table: a Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World, she traveled to El Salvador for research. One evening, she spent Shabbat dinner with a local family. A few minutes after she sat down, she looked at the table and noticed a peculiar plate of latkes.
Homa Khakpour will never forget the aroma of rice perfuming her neighborhood in Shiraz, in southwestern Iran, each day on her way home from school. “As you’re walking, you can smell it pouring out of every house, and the saffron, there’s nothing like it,” says the 66-year-old owner of Rumi…
Long before “plant-based” became a hot topic in the culinary world, Amanda Cohen has been making magic with vegetables. Her award-winning NYC hot spot, Dirt Candy, was the first of its kind, an eatery committed to vegetables in a sea of steakhouses and sushi dens.
Nine months after debuting a grab-and-go market inside Aventura Mall, Pubbelly Sushi has moved into a larger and more permanent space within the mall’s 350,000-square-foot expanded wing.
Angie Mar, chef and owner of New York City’s West Village restaurant the Beatrice Inn, wants to change the dialogue surrounding women in the kitchen. Mar, who has mastered the art of whole-animal butchery and runs a restaurant revolving around meat, is bone-tired of addressing her feelings about being a female in the culinary world.
Wynwood Yard founder Della Heiman and restaurateur Ken Lyon are opening a new health-conscious food hall this spring. Jackson Hall, located in the Civica Center at Jackson Health District, will offer five different food concepts and a small marketplace in its 10,000-square-foot space. In addition, the third floor of the space is being planned as a hydroponic garden by Cincinnati-based 80 Acres Farms.
On the edge of Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour, a new Italian-based gelato shop called Bio Bio serves made-from-scratch Italian ice cream. It’s the newest opening in the neighborhood, joining a host of successful restaurants and bars including Pubbelly, Stiltsville Fish Bar, NaiYaRa, and Purdy Lounge.
It’s easy to assume Alex Guarnaschelli is superhuman. After all, the celebrity chef is a regular judge on TV’s Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay, a frequent contributor on national morning shows, a cookbook author, the executive chef of Butter in New York City, and the mother of 10-year-old Ava.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Miami. For many of us, this romance-filled holiday is just another excuse to work up our appetites. This year, some of the city’s most popular dessert suppliers are behind a heap of sugar-topped and custard-filled delights. From charcoal-colored doughnuts to sparkling cookie cups and Cabernet-swirled ice…
Serafina, an iconic New York City Italian restaurant chain, will open inside Aventura Mall this month. The eatery will be located on the second floor of the mall’s new expanded wing, next door to Tesla and Topshop.
This Friday through next Sunday, Honeybee Doughnuts in South Miami will be stocked with Miami’s newest savory doughnut. The salty treat is a collaboration between Instagram sensation the Naughty Fork and Honeybee owner Karen Muirhead.
Across a wooden bar, against a wall of spirits, Matias Aubi looks like any other bartender ready to listen to your woes and make you a drink. But the former advertising exec won’t be serving your favorite cocktail in a glass but rather in a scoop, with one of his and partner Rafa Ramsa’s boozy ice-cream concoctions.
FattyCakesNY has partnered with Wynood’s hip-hop ice-cream parlor, Mr. Kream, adding ice cream to the mix to offer unique cookie-cake sundaes.
In about a month, chef Brian Nasajon hopes to finish construction on the former Gigi space, adjacent to the Shops at Midtown Miami, turning it into a diner with a deep lineup of house-made staples.
High-school-pals-turned-tea-men Tico Aran and Michael Ortiz want to make the world a better place with tea. For the past year, the two guys behind JoJo Tea have been striving toward that goal three days a week inside their ascetic, tea-tasting speakeasy on Le Jeune Road. The $25 tea experience provides a moment of pause in an otherwise overwhelming world.
Three, Norman Van Aken’s new restaurant inside the Wynwood Arcade, is now open for Sunday brunch. The James Beard Award-winning chef, considered the founding father of New World cuisine, opened the space this past November. Along with it came No. 3 Social, Wynwood’s first rooftop bar and lounge…
Miami’s winter months are usually a hotbed of activity for restaurant openings and the first month of January proved no exception. Over a dozen notable openings occurred including Daniel Boulud’s Boulud Sud and Michael Schwartz’s Amara at Paraiso. The venerable Miami chef and James Beard winner also celebrated the opening…
In the kitchen of a tidy apartment near the Miami River, two half-eaten pies sit alone on the top shelf of a sturdy stainless-steel refrigerator. Forks are wedged in like shovels in the dirt of a gold mine. One is a key lime pie from Joe’s Stone Crab, the other…
Inside the Betsy Hotel, a newly opened pizzeria called the Alley serves everything bagel pies and panettone French toast for brunch on Saturday and Sunday. The restaurant is the latest concept from chef Laurent Tourondel, who is also behind the Betsy’s LT Steak & Seafood. Located in the hotel’s 14th…
Captain Jim’s Seafood Market Restaurant, the beloved North Miami go-to for fresh fish and stone crabs, has been purchased by David Garcia of La Camaronera fame.
Soraya Kilgore has finally launched her pink-hued palace of ice cream. MadLove Creamery opened in the Design District’s Palm Court yesterday, serving gourmet soft serve, Japanese cheesecake, and house-made chocolate bark. Kilgore is best known as the pastry chef for Alter and Brava at the Arsht Center, with both kitchens…
Dewey LoSasso is one of Miami’s most beloved chefs, but what many Miamians don’t know is that he’s also an accomplished guitarist.The chef, who loves to make music as much as a great dish, will participate in Taste of Design in the Design District’s Paradise Plaza on Friday, January 26, from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. to benefit Miami’s Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH).
