Beach Taco Brings Inexpensive Late-Night Food to South Beach

Late-night taco cravings are real. That’s why Beach Taco is whipping up Mexican street food in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood until 1 a.m. weekdays and 5 a.m. on weekends. The fast-casual joint, located less than a block from Story Nightclub, is behind a heap of well-priced food items made with fresh vegetables and antibiotic- and hormone-free meats.

SOBEWFF 2018: Hedy Goldsmith’s Sweet Journey

For years, Hedy Goldsmith was known throughout Miami for her intricate, balanced desserts at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink. She moved to the West Coast to start a new path with wife Heidi Ladell in 2015 but forever holds an honorary place in the South Florida culinary community.

SOBEWFF 2018: Joan Nathan Talks Jewish Food

When Joan Nathan wrote her most recent cookbook, King Solomon’s Table: a Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World, she traveled to El Salvador for research. One evening, she spent Shabbat dinner with a local family. A few minutes after she sat down, she looked at the table and noticed a peculiar plate of latkes.

Rumi Persian Grill Delivers Iranian Home Cooking in Pinecrest

Homa Khakpour will never forget the aroma of rice perfuming her neighborhood in Shiraz, in southwestern Iran, each day on her way home from school. “As you’re walking, you can smell it pouring out of every house, and the saffron, there’s nothing like it,” says the 66-year-old owner of Rumi…

SOBEWFF 2018: Amanda Cohen Is a Veggie Magician

Long before “plant-based” became a hot topic in the culinary world, Amanda Cohen has been making magic with vegetables. Her award-winning NYC hot spot, Dirt Candy, was the first of its kind, an eatery committed to vegetables in a sea of steakhouses and sushi dens.

SOBEWFF 2018: Angie Mar Is a Meat Master

Angie Mar, chef and owner of New York City’s West Village restaurant the Beatrice Inn, wants to change the dialogue surrounding women in the kitchen. Mar, who has mastered the art of whole-animal butchery and runs a restaurant revolving around meat, is bone-tired of addressing her feelings about being a female in the culinary world.

Wynwood Yard Team to Open Food Hall in Jackson Health District

Wynwood Yard founder Della Heiman and restaurateur Ken Lyon are opening a new health-conscious food hall this spring. Jackson Hall, located in the Civica Center at Jackson Health District, will offer five different food concepts and a small marketplace in its 10,000-square-foot space. In addition, the third floor of the space is being planned as a hydroponic garden by Cincinnati-based 80 Acres Farms.

Italy’s Bio Bio Gelato Opens in Sunset Harbour

On the edge of Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour, a new Italian-based gelato shop called Bio Bio serves made-from-scratch Italian ice cream. It’s the newest opening in the neighborhood, joining a host of successful restaurants and bars including Pubbelly, Stiltsville Fish Bar, NaiYaRa, and Purdy Lounge.

SOBEWFF 2018: Alex Guarnaschelli Does It All, From Kid to Kitchen

It’s easy to assume Alex Guarnaschelli is superhuman. After all, the celebrity chef is a regular judge on TV’s Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay, a frequent contributor on national morning shows, a cookbook author, the executive chef of Butter in New York City, and the mother of 10-year-old Ava.

Aubi & Ramsa Offers Spirited Treats in the Design District

Across a wooden bar, against a wall of spirits, Matias Aubi looks like any other bartender ready to listen to your woes and make you a drink. But the former advertising exec won’t be serving your favorite cocktail in a glass but rather in a scoop, with one of his and partner Rafa Ramsa’s boozy ice-cream concoctions.

JoJo Tea Plans Nationwide Expansion With Focus on Sustainable Farming

High-school-pals-turned-tea-men Tico Aran and Michael Ortiz want to make the world a better place with tea. For the past year, the two guys behind JoJo Tea have been striving toward that goal three days a week inside their ascetic, tea-tasting speakeasy on Le Jeune Road. The $25 tea experience provides a moment of pause in an otherwise overwhelming world.

Norman Van Aken’s Three Opens for Brunch in Wynwood

Three, Norman Van Aken’s new restaurant inside the Wynwood Arcade, is now open for Sunday brunch. The James Beard Award-winning chef, considered the founding father of New World cuisine, opened the space this past November. Along with it came No. 3 Social, Wynwood’s first rooftop bar and lounge…

January 2018 Miami Restaurant Openings and Closings

Miami’s winter months are usually a hotbed of activity for restaurant openings and the first month of January proved no exception. Over a dozen notable openings occurred including Daniel Boulud’s Boulud Sud and Michael Schwartz’s Amara at Paraiso. The venerable Miami chef and James Beard winner also celebrated the opening…