Restaurants

Nineteen years after unveiling his first South Florida restaurant, Angelo Elia, one of our most celebrated chefs, is finally opening a location in Miami-Dade.

Just Salad, a New York-based fast-casual restaurant all about eating healthy on the go, is coming to Florida. The chain is more than just salads, however. The menu also offers customizable, made-to-order wraps, bowls, and smoothies as well as salads. One of its most popular menu items is the “toast box”:…

One of Miami’s most venerable establishments is closing for a refresh. The Forge will temporarily close for renovation, owner Shareef Malnik announced today. The kitchen will be revamped and the dining room design will change. In addition, the Forge brand will undergo an “overall brand…

At the newly opened sweet studio Dbakers in Edgewater, co-owner Giancarlo Guevara is obsessing over the shape of a macaron on display. “I just spotted it from the corner of my eye and it’s not perfectly round. I don’t understand how it made it out of the kitchen,” he says,…

No need to wait until the sun goes down to find some of Miami’s wildest and most popular parties. Every weekend, several lively restaurants host brunch events comparable to a night spent at LIV.

Pravin Mascarenhas and Shamsu Lalani, owners of Maska in Midtown, have launched the restaurant’s casual counterpart, Cho:Tu. The Indian street food concept is located next door to its more formal sister establishment.

A list of the bars and restaurants that opened and closed in Miami in March 2019.

On any given weekend, thousands of people, with dogs and children in tow, flock to the Yellow Green Farmers Market to shop for everything from local vegetables to craft beer to Turkish bathrobes.

Burger King is testing a meat-free Whopper. First off, this is not an April Fool’s joke, and, second, the Miami-based fast-food giant is not going vegan, so those of you who crave beef have nothing to worry about. Beginning today, the Impossible Whopper is being tested in 59 Burger King restaurants in St. Louis, Missouri.

Miami Beach’s vegetarian and vegan gastropub, Soul Tavern, is celebrating Spring with a Soulstice pop-up concept featuring over a dozen different pizza options.

Adela Alcantara had hesitations about going back into the restaurant business. After starting operations out of a laundromat in 1989 and opening seven restaurants across the county, Alcantara sold her Honduran restaurant empire, Adelita’s, in 2011.

On Saturday, April 13, New Times’ Out to Brunch moves to its new Design District home for an afternoon of food, music, and day-drinking.

A new egg-centric breakfast, brunch, and lunch eatery from the creators of the Butcher Shop Beer Garden in Miami and West Palm Beach is headed for downtown Miami. The Egg Spot — the third restaurant from father-and-son restaurateurs Igor and Fred Niznik — is scheduled to open this spring at 228 SE First St.

Amare Ristorante in the South of Fifth will combine the traditional flavors of Napoli and the Amalfi Coast.

Long before Bill Young, the 57-year-old chef and owner of Red Shallot, began serving his Taiwanese picadillo, residents of his densely populated home island off China’s eastern coast have enjoyed a dish of ground pork belly aggressively seasoned and served atop of a bed…

In 1986, Brazilian natives Carlos Augusto Carvalho and George Yuji Koshoji met in Brazil’s financial capital, São Paulo. Koshoji was working behind Carvalho’s favorite sushi counter, and together they decided to open their own restaurant.

Sakaya Kitchen and Blackbrick chef and owner Richard Hales will undergo emergency brain surgery this morning following a procedure to remove an 8-year-old brain tumor at the beginning of this year.

South American restaurant chain Osaka is slated to open a Brickell outpost in July as part of the brand’s international expansion that also includes a possible London location.

At Richard Sandoval’s Toro Toro, located inside the InterContinental Miami hotel, pork lovers can “go ham” on a new dish. The restaurant has just introduced a monster-sized, 32-ounce cut of porcine goodness known as the chuleta — a giant meat Mohawk of pork loin, ribs, and a strip of pork…

For the past three months, El Tucán in Brickell had kept its doors shut. The club reopened last week, and instead of original live cabaret, its guests will now enjoy an authentic Miami dinner party in its new incarnation as a restaurant and lounge concept. Owner Mathieu Massa, who…

The countdown is on to Soul Vegan Festival, Miami Beach’s edible event dedicated to plant-based African-American, Caribbean, and Hispanic-inspired foods. The fest, which kicks off on Saturday, March 23, is a collaboration with the Hungry Black Man, a concept created by Starex Smith. “Veganism is one of the culinary…