Restaurants

As Miami restaurant owners begin to plan for a gradual return to dining in, the Gulf Coast city of Naples is already there.

“It was a random call at 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday,” the Miami chef tells New Times. “I was like, whoa!”

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez says he’s targeting May 18 as the date to begin reopening restaurant dining rooms in Miami-Dade County.

If a serious shortage is imminent locally, it appears not to have approached anywhere near dire proportions.

More than 30 local chefs deliver hand-crafted meals to your door via Chefit.

New Times canvassed a handful of restaurateurs, seeking their thoughts on contending with the coronavirus.

Want to know what it’s like to open a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic? Just ask the folks at Kith & Co.

Mayorga Organics, which specializes in organic coffee, recently moved into a 43,000-square-foot facility in Doral.

Gramps is back for good, Gersten promises. “We’re going to stay open no matter what.”

GoPuff is a convenience store that delivers thousands of items to your door within 30 minutes.

A.C.’s Icees has moved to a location on Pan American Drive during the coronavirus pandemic.

Central Florida’s Kona Poke will launch a delivery-only service in Miami later this spring.

Doughnuts, pastelitos, ice cream, and other delectables are available for takeout and delivery.

The neighborhood grocery store doesn’t boast the vast inventory of a big-box retailer, but Ernie Perez and his family work hard to give their customers what they need. That goes double during a pandemic.

New Times signed up for Instacart, Shipt, and Amazon Prime Now and ordered the same list of essentials from each. Then we sat on our keister and waited.

Though Miami’s hospitality community has been hard hit by the pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders, local restaurateurs feel compelled to help local hospital workers by keeping them fed.

This year, Per’La is taking its coffee concept overseas to launch a second location, in the quaint town of Newbury, England, about an hour and a half outside London.

John Martin’s, a fixture on Miracle Mile since 1989, when childhood friends Martin Lynch and John Clarke opened a traditional Irish pub in Coral Gables, has permanently closed.

Here’s a comparison of coronavirus-related personnel policies — including increased sick time and pay rates — at Miami’s major grocery chains.

Available for pickup and delivery, these seasonal confections will brighten anyone’s Easter Sunday.

The restaurant’s management and staff have teamed up to keep the kitchen operating in order to feed the community.

Punch Bowl Social, with 20 U.S. locations, appears to be among the first corporate casualties of the coronavirus pandemic.