Le Cordon Bleu, the school where Julia Child learned how to cook, is closing all its schools. A notice on the school’s website informs students: As announced in December 2015, Le Cordon Bleu will begin a gradual process of discontinuing operations. As a result, January 4, 2016 will be the…
For almost three decades the Persad family ran a Trinidadian catering outfit in Rochester, New York. Then, earlier this year they decided they’d had enough of the cold and relocated their business to South Beach to open the first of its kind on the falafel-and-pizza-drenched island. “There was demand for…
Spending a couple hundred dollars for an all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse experience is no longer di rigeur. Brazilian Fire, a South Florida-born food truck, offers a rodizio-style meal that includes meat slow-cooked over all-natural wood coals in a kitchen-on-wheels about the size of a bedroom. “Most food trucks offer a new…
Chefs Jeff McInnis and Janine can now begin earnest work on their new Sunset Harbour restaurant and rooftop patio after they received the essential nod from the City of Miami Beach last evening. The approval took about an hour and a half at yesterday’s city planning board meeting. The chefs…
London-based app Velocity Mobile, a politically correct way to “dine and dash,” has launched in Miami. The digital hospitality platform, which allows diners to pay for dinner through a mobile device, is available at 850 venues around the world, including 74 Michelin star restaurants. Miami marks the seventh Velocity-friendly city, with…
When Hedy Goldsmith announced she was leaving her executive pastry chef position with Michael Schwartz after two decades to pursue a new life in Los Angeles, all of Miami felt a loss. Not only was Goldsmith a great chef, she was much loved in the community for her work with…
A lush banana leaf arrives wrapped up like a Christmas present. A small dish of vinegar and oil topped with parsley shreds is tinted rose thanks to red onion slivers. As you peel open the package, a puff of steam flutters out. It’s followed by the deep, earthy scent of…
Aside from a handful of dearly departed closures (think Kris Wessel’s Oolite) 2015 was a banner year for dining in Miami-Dade. Blood began pumping through the burgeoning MiMo District as The Vagabond opened its doors and Cake Thai Kitchen became a fast favorite. The beach continued to flood with celebrity…
It begins with inky slugs of homemade blood sausage. They’re filled with pork blood, rice, onion, and smoky pimiento, then plunked into a boil with hunks of heart, tongue, and feet. Over time, the bubbling chocolate-colored broth leeches out the best of each ingredient and becomes rich, porky, and free…
NaiYaRa isn’t even officially open to the public, and already there’s a buzz about the place. The restaurant by Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, known to most of Miami as Chef Bee, opens tomorrow, December 15, but all last week the chef hosted preview dinners with the dining room awash with fellow restaurateurs,…
To most Europeans, America is “that annoying country where customers have to subsidize employee wages” — i.e. where bars and restaurants pay low wages and expect customers to make up the difference. In recent years, however, a progressive national movement dedicated to eliminating the practice has gained momentum. With restaurateur…
Brunch at the Continental has character. It fuses the feeling of a ’60s diner with high-quality, gourmet eats and drinks at a reasonable price. Its newly released weekend meal serves an array of breakfast and lunch favorites with a retro-chic twist. The menu, crafted by chef Matthew Oetting, is divided into…
“We could hear the pigs screaming from about a mile away. It was so traumatic.” Animal rights activist Jill Matthis is describing what she witnessed last year at Matadero Cabrera Pig Farm in Hialeah just a day before Noche Buena, also known as Christmas Eve. Different cultures celebrate the night…
Dr Smood, a healthy fast food café/boutique opened its flagship store on Northeast Second Avenue in Wynwood during Art Basel week. As for the brand’s second location, it opens today on Sunset Drive in South Miami. What’s more, come 2016, Dr Smood will launch in Sunset Harbour and at the…
By the time Hy Vong closed on October 30, partners Kathy Manning and Tung Nguyen had had quite a week of ups and downs. The restaurant owners announce they were closing their Calle Ocho restaurant after over three decades of service, only to be issued a last minute reprieve by the…
Some serious sweet tooth indulgence is happening this weekend at Burger Beast’s 2015 SugaPie Festival. Sef Gonzalez’s Burger Beast blog has been hosting culinary events for nearly five years, but for the first time, desserts will be the stars of the show. For just 20 bucks, you can enjoy all-inclusive, unlimited…
Miami is an ever-changing city. People who haven’t been here in five years likely wouldn’t recognize the changing landscape filled with new high rises, added museums, and ever-gentrifying neighborhoods. One of the biggest shape-shifters is our local restaurant scene. In any given month, it’s typical for a dozen or so…
In the midst of the crazy rush to start the season, Spike Mendelsohn’s casual surfer-inspired restaurant, Sunny’s, opened last month inside The Hall South Beach Hotel (1500 Collins ave., Miami Beach). The property itself, is a beautiful renovation of the Art Deco Haddon Hall hotel, originally designed by L. Murray Dixon,…
It’s just after sunset Thursday night in Coconut Grove and Ergon Greek Deli + Cuisine (2982 Grand Ave., 305-442-9280) seems almost abandoned. A teenage cashier twiddles on a cell phone. Flies buzz under glass shielding a grapefruit-size bread loaf studded with olives and salty feta cubes ($3). One bite, and…
At Barton G. The Restaurant, food transforms into art and dinner becomes an experience. The 15-year-old South Beach locale is known for its eccentric food presentations, and its latest iteration Barton G.’s “Art of Being Social” menu brings to life a diner’s wildest cuisine fantasies. The restaurant, conceived by Barton G. Weiss, a restaurateur,…
In just a few short weeks, NaiYaRa will finally open at 1854 Bay Rd. in Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood. The eatery by Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, known to most of Miami as Chef Bee, was first announced about two years ago, but delays, including the massive street closures and construction in the…
Nobu recently reopened its new location at the Eden Roc Hotel. The restaurant is the first part of a major renovation for the landmark Miami Beach hotel, with one of its towers being renovated to become Nobu Hotel at Eden Roc. Once complete, the project, a partnership among chef Nobuyuki “Nobu”…
