Restaurants

If you like tea, doughnuts, and ice cream, get them free this weekend in Miami.

As temperatures heat up, the Magic City’s transition into the hottest months is marked by a selection of new brunches. But instead of dining on a patio or deck, consider an indoor brunch with air-conditioning and chilled drinks. From Miami Beach to Wynwood to Doral, restaurants such as Juvia, R House, and BLT Prime have rolled out summer brunch menus offering with drink specials, updated menu items, and entertainment. This weekend, try one of Miami’s five new summer brunches.

Just two years after opening, Tom Colicchio’s Beachcraft, located inside the 1 Hotel South Beach, will shutter at the end of this year, Colicchio confirmed today. The hotel’s bar, Tom on Collins, is slated to undergo a branding change as the Top Chef host, who oversees a fleet of Craft restaurants and other properties across the country, pulls up stakes.

There’s no meat on the menu at Brickell’s new Crate Plant-Based Kitchen, Bar & Lounge, but carnivores will still find plenty to love. The 152-seat eatery has a lineup packed with hearty plates such as nonmeat versions of bacon cheeseburgers, Buffalo wings, and chicken tacos, and guests can wash it all down with fresh signature cocktails.

Chef Phuket Thongsodchaveondee, AKA Cake, is partnering with the owner of the Asian-style restaurant the Gang, Bogdan Niculae, on Gaijin Izakaya, a retro Japanese-style gastropub that opens today for lunch, dinner, and late-night dining at the Gang’s midtown Miami location.

Miami Spice returns this August with prix fixes at some of the finest restaurants for the reduced price of $23 for lunch and $39 for dinner. Spice, which runs August 1 through September 30, is designed to encourage visitors and locals to explore new restaurants and visit old favorites by providing discounted three-course meals. The promotion also helps many eateries survive Miami’s summer slump, when attendance drops as locals flock to cooler climes and tourists opt out of frying on our beaches.

Mr. Bing, the popular Miami food truck selling shaved ice cream, has opened its first standalone shop. Toward the back of the Sterling Building on Lincoln Road in South Beach, Mr. Bing is the first tenant of Sterling Market, a food hall slated to open in the former Design Within Reach furniture store space, next door to Books & Books.

Ricky’s, an all-in-one bar, restaurant, and arcade on 16th Street, is about to transform into South Beach’s newest pizza joint. Next Thursday, July 20, New York’s Artichoke Basille’s Pizza will take over the kitchen at Ricky’s, swapping the concept’s carnival-inspired fare for pies and slices topped with tomato sauce and cheese.

It’s been a year since a purple graffiti-painted food truck, stocked with sweet goodies such as ice-cream sandwiches and edible cookie dough, rolled into Miami. This Sunday, July 16, local dessert business Wynwood Parlor will open its first brick-and-mortar on Miami’s Upper Eastside at 860 NE 79th St., next to Half Moon Empanadas and down the street from the Anderson.

After more than a decade of burgers and late nights, the Lost & Found Saloon that straddled Wynwood and the Design District has closed. Although the doors are locked, patio tables remain outside as if waiting for diners to drink beer and down burritos. Two women took a smoke break at the tables yesterday afternoon.

The miang kham at Atchana’s Homegrown Thai isn’t a lettuce wrap. One of the many small dishes arranged on a large plate holds wrinkly pale-pink dried shrimp. In another are toasted coconut flakes. Yet another bears tiny beige cubes you later learn are bits of ginger and garlic. Even the…

When Bachour Bakery + Bistro opened in March 2016, it was greeted by long lines, with Brickell residents and workers clamoring for a taste of the eatery’s fare. The owners, after all, were the makings of a dream team: Antonio Bachour’s gorgeous pastries and buttery croissants were paired with Henry Hané’s savory dishes.

Midtown’s GLAM is a chic, modern spot where omnivores and vegans can sit side by side and leave equally satisfied.

As temperatures soar, Miami’s dining scene continues to heat up. This past June saw the debut of some amazing restaurants. From a “glam” vegan eatery in midtown to a spot to snag savory barbecue, exciting new places offer much to explore. Here are five delicious ideas.

It’s been a week since Federal Donuts opened in Wynwood, and the fast-casual eatery has created quite a buzz. On a recent visit in the early evening, makeshift signs noted the shop had run out of wings and fancy doughnuts, although the twice-fried Korean chicken and regular doughnuts were…

Longtime friends Jose Ignacio Garcia, 25, and Jose Pablo De Leon, 24, first met while attending school in their hometown Guatemala City. When they relocated to the United States, Garcia made his way to Boston to finish school while De Leon wrapped up at Florida International University. As graduation approached,…

OTL, a casual spot for breakfast, lunch, and coffee, quietly opened in the Design District just after the new year. Created by Miami nightlife kingpin David Grutman, in partnership with real-estate developer Craig Robins and the folks behind Manhattan’s popular restaurant and takeout concept the Smile, OTL…

Miami Beach’s Palace Bar went out with fireworks and a literal bang after hosting a week’s worth of parties that culminated in a street bash along Ocean Drive on the Fourth of July.

Inside a commercial kitchen in Kendall, Mari Rubio bakes dozens of confections, such as Nutella-infused cookies and guava cake, to deliver across Miami-Dade County. Rubio, who is behind the local dessert business Casa Gioia, dreams of opening a storefront, but she is concentrating on growing her delivery service first.

As 28-year-old Rizwan Sowkat tries to explain the taste of fish such as ayer, boal, and shor puti, entombed in his freezer cases at his North Miami Beach grocery store, he pauses and offers a curt nod when Kamrul Khan steps through the door.

Saul Ramos feels at home in his executive chef role at Fooq’s Miami. He began working at the restaurant in mid-May and was shown the ropes by chef Bryan Rojas, who planned to move to Monterrey, Mexico, where his mother lives. “He will eventually be back in Miami, but he wanted to focus on starting a family,” Fooq’s owner David Foulquier says of Rojas.

To begin a meal at Le Sirenuse, the elegant restaurant that opened March 23 in Surfside’s Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club, a server wearing white gloves and a jacket with gold epaulets appears tableside holding a silver tray. On it sit two demitasses with rims powdered red by…