Restaurants

Dirt, an affordable and healthful fast-casual restaurant, expands its roots to Miami’s mainland next week with a new location in Mary Brickell Village (900 South Miami Ave. #125).

Time Out Market Miami might just change the face of Lincoln Road — or at least its food scene. The food hall, set to open in 2018, will offer 17 different restaurants, three bars, and both indoor and outdoor communal seating.

New Times’ Iron Fork will celebrate its tenth anniversary Thursday, October 5, at the Hyatt Regency Miami with an evening of delicious food from favorite local restaurants and entertainment. This year’s event sees two new chef battles in addition to the annual Iron Fork competition.

Miami Beach’s Hank & Harry’s Deli, a New York-style delicatessen founded by local restaurateurs Buzzy Sklar and Richard Booth, is expected to open in South Miami at 5958 S. Dixie Hwy. by mid-November.

Three years ago, Phuket Thongsodchareondee sent a jolt through Miami when he opened Cake Thai on Biscayne Boulevard at NE 79th Street. It’s a compact place where the only decorations are magazine ads with an animated, pop-culture look covered by Thai script. The menu is packed with the intense sweetness,…

September was a chaotic month for Miami’s restaurant industry. Hurricane Irma forced many restaurants to close for days — sometimes weeks — due to both storm-related damage and power loss. Some casualties were long-term or permanent.

With more than 200 rotating flavors of rainbow-sprinkled, chocolate-glazed, and guava-stuffed doughnuts, it seems Mojo Donuts & Fried Chicken couldn’t get any sweeter. But it is. Through a partnership with Sweet Melody, the Southwest Miami-Dade doughnut shop will offer a selection of whimsical ice creams every weekend.

Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth’s long-awaited Stiltsville Fish Bar opens tonight in Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood.

Housed inside the new Iberostar Berkeley Hotel, previously the Berkeley Shore Hotel, in South Beach, BLT Steak churns out doughy popovers, large seafood displays, and a good selection of beef.

There’s a new brunch to try this weekend in South Beach. Forte dei Marmi, a Tuscan-inspired restaurant on Ocean Drive, will debut a buffet and à la carte experience from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, October 1.

New Times’ Iron Fork will celebrate its tenth anniversary on Thursday October 5 at the Hyatt Regency Miami with an evening of delicious food from Miami’s favorite restaurants, a showdown between two of the city’s best chefs, and a brand new competition. This year, two student chefs from Johnson &…

Two years ago, Carolina Quijano left her well-paying finance job in New York City to move back home to South Florida and pursue gourmet chocolate-making. Without any culinary experience, Quijano created Exquisito Chocolates, where she uses ethically sourced cocoa beans to produce chocolate and marshmallow treats.

Restaurateur Stephen Starr is bringing another of his concepts to South Florida when El Vez opens at the W Fort Lauderdale hotel, joining Starr’s Steak 954 in the beachfront resort.

Lolo’s Surf Cantina, a Baja-inspired Mexican restaurant in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood, is now open for breakfast. The early-morning menu is inspired by chef/partner Richard Ampudia’s grandmother, Dolores, for whom the restaurant is named. The fare is a mixture of classic Mexican breakfast dishes with lighter and more conventional items.

For Niven Patel, one of the hardest parts about opening a second location of his Dadeland hit Ghee Indian Kitchen wasn’t the menu, staff, or space. It was telling the NE Second Avenue space’s former tenant and his former boss, Michael Schwartz, that he’d be taking over the room that once held the James Beard Award-winning chef’s Cypress Room.

A new waterfront café concept called Cucuyo is set to open sometime this fall at the Perez Art Museum (PAMM).

Four months since the grand opening of the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Food@Science—the museum’s onsite restaurant—has finally opened its doors.

Wynwood’s Cake Thai has shut its doors. “Probably not reopening as Cake Thai,” restauranteur Javier Ramirez said in a text message. “We will be making a decisions (as to the future of the space) this week.”

The little yellow house by the sea in Islamorada was a total wreck. Irma’s winds had torn the hurricane shutters from the French doors. Huge ocean waves had pushed through and buried the interior in at least two feet of sand and punched holes in the drywall. A wicker chair…

After Irma hit South Florida two weeks ago on Sunday, life is getting back to normal.  Ghee Indian Kitchen, which opened in Dadeland just four months ago and features Gujarati-inspired cuisine, found its farm-to-table philosophy put to the test by Irma’s wrath.

Pink Rock Sea, a new poke shop, is about to sail into 214 Española Way on South Beach. The restaurant joins a roaster of Pacific-inspired concepts located across Miami-Dade, including Poke + Go, Ono, Poké 305, and PokéBao.