The second week of the month is busy in Wynwood, with art walk this Saturday. Add a little comedy to that mix on Thursday at Moloko in the Shops at Midtown, which offers laughs the second Thursday of every month. Share some laughs and some happy hour specials with friends…
You won’t taste the gator. It’s cooked in a thick, fiery gumbo with okra, shrimp, and boar, so you’re fooled by its familiar aroma, which is blended with sassafras and smoke. The greenish liquid, fortified with spices and herbs, veils the exotic flavors of reptile and wild boar. Sure, you…
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s MasterCard presale starts today, Monday, October 7, and runs through October 20. This is the absolute best way to snag tickets to the hot events that sell out way before the actual festival, which is 135 days from now. To purchase tickets, have…
We all know that a sommelier is a trained wine professional. And we’ve each encountered beer snobs – perhaps less refined, but they have an equally enviable level of specialty knowledge. While wine and spirits experts are fine and dandy, in the world of gastronomers, it’s certified cheese professionals (CCPs)…
As a recent transplant from California, I have had to adjust a lot to Miami. East now means toward the ocean. The Magic City has outrageous crimes that make me wish Dexter were real. Lizards hang out everywhere, including my bathroom. And my kitchen is seriously lacking treats from my…
A Passage to India, a month long pop-up, premiered last evening at the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove. The special event turns the hotel’s restaurant into an Indian dining hall every Thursday through Sunday from 6 to 10 p.m. from October 3 to November 3. The pop-up transforms the luxury hotel’s Bizcaya…
At Eating House in Coral Gables, Giorgio Rapicavoli serves Tang mimosas, Cap’n Crunch pancakes, and croquetas banh mi. When he isn’t at his restaurant, the playful chef seeks out cool spots and laid-back, neighborhood joints. Here, in his own words, are his favorite restaurants in Miami…
Michael Mina’s new restaurant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach is scheduled to open in November 2013 — in time for the rush that Art Basel and the holiday season brings. Michael Mina 74 will open in the iconic resort’s lobby, in the Arkadia space and is quite a departure from…
When Lokal Burgers & Beer opened just before Christmas 2011, Matt Kuscher had a vision of serving “clean” proteins and produce sourced from local purveyors. Now, nearly two years later, Kuscher’s restaurant is one of the most popular in Coconut Grove, with a loyal clientele that comes for a good…
Have you ever heard of mock apple pie? In The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten references an early-19th-century pie recipe that uses smashed Ritz crackers instead of apples. Flavored with cinnamon, sugar, and lemon juice, the crackers taste just like fruit. Sometimes, seasonings can fool you into thinking you’re…
When the humidity drops below 90 percent and temperatures cool to the mid-70s, Miami comes alive. Snowbirds and weekenders fly south for the winter in search of balmy breezes and events such as Art Basel and the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. It is also the time when new…
Season 11 of Top Chef, the Bravo cooking competition that paved the way for the cooking-show craze, premieres tonight. This time, the cheftestants compete in New Orleans, where regulars Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, and Gail Simmons are joined by Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson. Though some critics scoff at Bravo’s…
Today, the United States Government shut down after Congress failed to reach an agreement to fund federal agencies. The first shutdown in 17 years disrupts a laundry list of federal agencies. Though essential government employees like air traffic controllers, border patrol agents and food inspectors, will continue to work, many…
September marks the beginning of the busy fall season. All over Miami, life renews as shops, restaurants, and hotels spiffy up for the winter season. Retooled menus, chef changes, and reworked decor are all par for the course — as are the openings of a plethora of new and interesting…
There are certain restaurants that you just feel like you are a part of, like the spots that feature “mi” in the name. Mi Colombia Cafeteria y Restaurante in North Beach is one of those places. The first time I visited, I parked in the rear and entered through the…
When Richard Hales opened Sakaya Kitchen in 2009, the “fast-casual, Asian-inspired, organic-conscious restaurant” quickly became an obsession of many Miamians who craved flavorful food that wouldn’t break their budgets. The restaurant served everything from Korean-style barbecue to “chunk’d” tater tots smothered in cheese and beef. Hales, who attended the French…
Benjamin Ford is a pioneer. Seven years ago, he opened Ford’s Filling Station, a Culver City, California, restaurant that emphasizes fine butchery and seasonal ingredients. The chef, who’s popping up at Harry’s Pizzeria tonight, imported the concept out of London. It was called a gastropub. And, in the United States,…
Bocce Bar, forecast to open in late 2013, is designed to give Miami a bit of the dolce vita for which Italians are known. Modeled after a traditional enoteca, the midtown Miami restaurant will feature an indoor/outdoor bar as a focal point. A counter will display a selection of house-made…
Chayhana Oasis in Sunny Isles is a surprisingly enchanting Uzbek restaurant only accessible from one side of 163rd St. After you arrive on the correct side of the street, you have to find the visitor parking ramp above and away from the restaurant, and ride down the elevator. Then you’ll…
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival turns 13 in 2014, and Lee Brian Schrager, creator of the festival and vice president of corporate communications and national events at Southern Wine & Spirits of America Inc., knew exactly how he wanted to celebrate: a good old-fashioned bar mitzvah. “I wanted…
Long before South Beach’s popular pork-centric restaurant Pubbelly was even a thought, a 17-year-old kid named Jose Mendin announced he wanted to be a chef and went to Paris with his father. “My dad took me to a three-star Michelin restaurant, and I think I had the best meal of…
Ah, mole, the sauce as personal and versatile as curry. It can come in an array of delicious colors: red, green, yellow or brown and most are said to have upwards of twenty ingredients. Discovering your perfect sauce is like finding your soulmate. At Los Magueyes they offer up two…
