Bird & Bone, chef Richard Hales’ Southern restaurant inside the Confidante, has one of the best-valued Spice lunches. The three-course meal, which includes many of Hales’ most popular plates, offers about a 30 percent discount compared to a regularly priced lunch at the restaurant.
If you’re obsessed with Miami’s taco scene, you won’t want to miss New Times’ Tacolandia, presented by Goya. On Saturday, November 18, from 3 to 6 p.m., Wynwood’s Soho Studios will turn into a veritable taco-filled theme park serving unlimited taco samples from 30 of Miami’s best restaurants, including Amour de Miami, Plomo, and Tacology.
There was a time in Miami when artisanal bread didn’t quite exist. However, in the past few years, the Magic City has embraced culinary wonders such as Zak the Baker, True Loaf, and Madruga Bakery. Now there’s a new baker in town. James Beard Award-winning baker, chef, and author Jim Lahey has opened an outpost of New York’s Sullivan Street Bakery near Little Haiti.
Venezuelan chef Carlos Garcia announced he will open a much-anticipated outpost in Miami this fall. Garcia, whose elegant restaurant in Caracas, Alto, has held a coveted spot on Latin America’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list since 2013, says his Brickell place, Obra Kitchen Table, will offer simpler, humbler fare.
It’s just after 8 a.m. on a weekday when the sun begins pouring into Bakery Café Restaurant (8250 NE Second Ave., Miami; 305-322-6127), a compact place at one end of an orange-stucco strip mall that’s topped with a sloping Spanish-tile roof. Inside, 32-year-old Merline Toussaint’s day is just beginning. Her…
In September, Top Chef alums Janine Booth and Jeff McInnis will open Stiltsville Fish Bar, an upscale seafood shack in Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour.
Nestled in the heart of downtown Coral Gables is the historic, ivy-covered Hotel St. Michel. In March, an Italian restaurant named Zucca opened inside the boutique inn, modernizing the 1920s-esque space with a swank cocktail bar and a chic dining room. Recently, the restaurant debuted Sunday brunch, featuring a large…
It’s hard to imagine a chef whose culinary creations are more aesthetically appealing than Matthew Kenney’s. The vegan master is know for nutrient-dense, deliciously fresh dishes with a rainbow-hued aesthetic that makes them ideal fodder for the Instagram-obsessed. His newest eatery, Plnthouse at the 1 Hotel South Beach, is an…
A swift scroll through Instagram typically shows four kinds of photos: selfies, babies, sunsets, and food. Every now and then, your eyes widen, mouth salivates, and stomach growls. It’s more than food porn; it’s an architectural wonder in the form of a milkshake.
When the Palace Bar closed after an energy-fueled July Fourth celebration, Miami Beach lost more than a bar: It lost a major gathering place for the city’s LGBT community and a spot where everyone and anyone was united in their love of a good party.
New Times researched the list of newcomers to Miami Spice and handpicked the ten best restaurants to try. It’s good to note that some of them are new, while others are merely new to Spice this year. As always, menus are subject to change with availability and seasonality, and reservations are suggested.
La Centrale, the Italian-themed food hall tucked into the billion-dollar Brickell City Centre, will include a handful of eateries that draw inspiration from different regions of Italy, along with a spot for Neapolitan pizzas and a 5,000-square-foot grab-and-go café replete with cheeses, breads, and all manner of Italian products.
New Times’ Iron Fork returns for its tenth anniversary with delicious food and a showdown between two of Miami’s finest chefs. It’ll all go down Thursday, October 5, when Tacology’s Santiago Gomez will face off against Beaker & Gray’s Brian Nasajon in an epic battle of fire, blades, and cunning at the Hyatt Regency Miami.
Ortelio Cárdenas, better known to Miami, the world, and former President Barack Obama, as El Mago de Las Fritas returned to his Flagami cafeteria for work last week after undergoing a double bypass surgery two months ago.
Paon Eatery offers Mediterranean and Latin American plates pared down to their simplest form.
The folks who brought Lolo’s Surf Cantina, a Baja California-inspired restaurant, to the Marriott Stanton South Beach are behind Miami’s latest sushi restaurant, Azabu.
Inside the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale, find Burlock Coast Seafare & Spirits, a restaurant, café, market, and bar concept that includes an artisanal goods marketplace, a small-batch rum retail shop, and a cigar bar. On Saturdays and Sundays, the restaurant opens for a seaside brunch focused on meats, seafood, and seasonal produce. Overseen…
After 50 days at Jackson Memorial’s Ryder Trauma Center, chef Ralph Pagano is going home.
The Fort Lauderdale outpost of 50 Eggs’ Spring Chicken quickly closed on Tuesday night, blindsiding some employees who showed up for work yesterday morning to find they no longer had jobs. “It seems like they came in the middle of the night and just gutted the place,” former general…
While Miami Spice is a smorgasbord of multicourse deliciousness, it’s also big on meat, dairy, and eggs. Veg eaters can feel left out, to say the least. Luckily, among the hundreds of participating restaurants there are plenty of options for herbivores — so they can indulge along with every other Miamian. Many of the selections below are vegetarian but can be made vegan upon request. Be sure to ask your server in advance; some spots recommend vegans order off the regular menu. Prices for Miami Spice run $23 for lunch and $39 for dinner.
The newest food truck to pop up inside the Wynwood Yard is Food Dude, a Latin-Jamaican grill concept. The truck first debuted in 2013, after Alex Torres, a Johnson and Wales alum, was laid off as a corporate chef. A few months later, he and his wife Erica bought a black truck and hit the road. Stocked with jerk chicken, rice, and tostones, the two cruised across Miami, serving culinary mash-ups rooted in culture and tradition.
A lawsuit filed against Delray Beach-based Delivery Dudes last week in federal court claims the service is paying its drivers sometimes as little as 50 to 75 cents per delivery while requiring them to work between 50 or 60 hours per week.
