Teena’s Pride Open House: Meet Your Beets

Miami is a little topsy-turvy when it comes to growing season. Just when the rest of the country is settling down for frost to cover the farmlands, we’re gearing up for fresh produce at farmers markets, U-Pick tomato patches, and via CSA boxes delivered to our doors.Teena’s Pride (20025 SW…

Pride and Joy Opens Today in Wynwood

Get ready for barbeque, beer, and bourbon, Wynwood. Pride and Joy, pit master Myron Mixon’s honky tonk/barbeque restaurant, opens its doors today at 5 p.m.Read also:- Pride and Joy, Myron Mixon’s Palace of Barbeque and Beer, Coming to WynwoodThe restaurant, co-owned by Mixon along with partners Mike Saladino, Chris Mayer,…

October 2012 Restaurant Openings and Closings

Open your windows, turn off your air conditioner and enjoy this glorious weather! It’s fall in Miami and as the temperature cools off, the restaurant scene heats up!Already we’re seeing restaurants come onto the scene in anticipation of the arrival of snowbirds flying south for the winter, tourists coming for…

HoneyBaked To Open a Pop-Up in Southland Mall

In other weird news, HoneyBaked has announced it will ham it up in Miami by opening pop-up store. There are currently three locations in greater Miami-Dade, but the new pop-up, to go up in Southland Mall, will give residents of South Miami Heights and Cutler Bay an alternative to Butterball…

Lorna’s Downtown: Caribbean Soul Food Comes to Downtown

Miami Gardens is a mecca for interesting food. Consider for example Lorna’s Restaurant, the Caribbean place that for the last six years has offered up a variety of fresh dishes influenced by Jamaican, Bahamain and American cooking. Thankfully restaurant matriarch Lorna Westmoreland’s son, Matari Bodie, opened a downtown Miami outpost about…

Villa Mayfair To Reopen With Changes, Casual Vibe

When Villa Mayfair closed for the summer, there was speculation that the restaurant, which serves upscale Mediterranean/French fare accompanied by live D.J.’s might be a bit much for its artsy Coconut Grove locale. Then again, the chef is French and might just have wanted to spend a season soaking up…

Miami’s Five Best Offal Dishes for Halloween

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Instead of bringing some insipid blood-covered body part…

Rare Blue Lobsters at Red The Steakhouse

You’ve probably read about blue lobsters, those rare neon-colored crustaceans. Now, Red the Steakhouse is inviting you to taste one.Read Also:- Red the Steakhouse Has Kobe from Japan: Is it Worth It?The lobsters are Brittany Blues, taken from the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Scotland and…

Toro Toro: Rodizio Grill and Crafted Cocktails in Downtown Miami (Photos)

Toro Toro opens tomorrow, October 25, at the InterContinental hotel in downtown Miami. The restaurant is part of a renovation of the hotel, which was once Miami’s largest and finest convention property. With many new hotels opening in downtown, the InterContinental’s facelift, which includes artwork installations and interactive coffee tables…

Shell Lumber: Hot Dogs Are Life

By 8 a.m. crews are already lining up outside of Shell Lumber on the corner of U.S. 1 and 27th Avenue. Yet it’s not plywood or tool parts they’re after. It’s hot dogs, bratwurst and mini hamburgers. The half-block-long hardware store has been in business 84 years and remains a…

Ramen Watch: Momi Ramen Plans Simple Offerings in Brickell

There’s no shortage of effort or money being put into Momi Ramen, housed in a tiny red brick building on a Brickell side street in the shadow of nearby condo towers. The small eatery, sparse inside with columns of bamboo, steel moldings and decorations, and exposed brick walls, is planned…

Mixtura Struggles to Hold La Cofradia’s Clout

A few cosmetic bits of La Cofradia, the now-closed Peruvian restaurant that was once the best in Coral Gables, remain in the space now known as Mixtura, but that’s all. Nestor Rojas and Miguel Hilck, partners in a North Beach Peruvian restaurant of the same name, bought the space earlier…

Om Nom Nom Cookies Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Miami has its fair share of delectable desserts. From Hedy Goldsmith’s homemade Nutter Butters to Icebox Café’s Chocolate Delight, we’ve got enough goodies to keep local dentists on their toes. But there’s only one cookie company whipping up sweet treats that bear the distinction of being cruelty-free: Om Nom Nom…

SoBe Wine & Food Fest Tickets Now On Sale For Everyone

Everyone can rejoice! South Beach Wine & Food Festival tickets are now available for everyone who didn’t (or couldn’t) get in on the Mastercard privy access. Hooray! We peons are now able to choose from the wide variety of events to take place February 21 – 23, 2013. We here…

Iron Fork: Food, Cocktails, and Two Incredible Battles (Photos)

Thousands of hungry and thirsty people converged upon Grand Central Miami last evening to eat, drink and be merry at New Times’ fifth annual Iron Fork.  Over three dozen of Miami’s hottest restaurants served up some fine eats while a host of open bars attended to the liquid needs of…

Paragon Grove 14: Upgraded Seats & Eats

When Paragon Grove 14 opened its new multiplex at CocoWalk in 2010, with all stadium reserved seating and Sony 4k digital projection, it was a major upgrade over the old, run-down AMC Theatre it replaced. Now Paragon has added new luxury dine-in theaters and an expanded menu at The Lot…