Sherwood’s Bistro & Bar, a new place on Northeast Second Avenue and 83rd Street, gets its name from Sherwood Forest. That is not only Robin Hood’s merry hangout, but also a subdivision of the Village of El Portal. And like the nearby community that bears its name, Sherwood’s is charming, slightly idiosyncratic, and steeped in the area where it’s located.
Sunday, June 4, is National Cheese Day, and because cheese makes everything taste better, New Times scoured the Magic City for the best and brightest dishes offering gooey goodness.
This week’s National Doughnut Day isn’t just another silly, made-up food holiday. It’s actually a 78-year-old day of remembrance established by the Salvation Army in 1938 to commemorate “doughnut lassies,” women volunteers who were sent to France during World War I to help distribute the fried-dough treats in an effort to make soldiers feel more at home. That translates to specials on plenty of doughnuts when the annual holiday rolls around, this year Friday, June 2.
May in Miami saw both the weather and the city’s restaurant scene heat up. Once again, significantly more restaurants opened than closed. A host of local concepts continue to expand, including Tap 42, Harry’s Pizzeria, Raw Juce, and Angelo Elia.
In September 2016, New Times food critic Zachary Fagenson visited Philadelphia and was enamored with Dizengoff, James Beard winner Michael Solomonov’s hummus restaurant. The Philly-based chef had already announced his award-winning Federal Donuts would open in Wynwood, but Fagenson lamented the fact that Dizengoff would not be a sister to the fried-chicken-and-doughnut eatery. Whether fate, the culinary gods, or Solomonov himself heard Fagenson’s plea remains unknown, but Dizengoff is coming to Miami.
New England seafood with Cuban flair has arrived in Miami with the opening of Ella’s Oyster Bar in Little Havana.
Good news, dessert junkies: You have plans for National Dessert Day this fall. Miami’s largest sweets fest — Dessert Wars — will return a second time this year, October 14, with more than 30 vendors and 20,000 sweets.
A wide bowl striped with narrow white and black lines arrives filled with a knot of thick, opaque udon noodles sturdy enough to grip with chopsticks but delicate enough to absorb the spicy ocean tonic infused with ginger and kelp in which they float. The soup is filled out with…
Antico Pizza Napoletana, housed where David’s Café used to be (1058 Collins Ave., Miami Beach), opened with the goal of incorporating owner Giovanni Di Palma’s several Atlanta-based restaurants into one eatery. The South Beach location serves menu highlights from his Antico Pizza Napoletana, Gio’s Chicken Bar Amalfi, and Caffè Antico under one roof in what Di Palma calls the “centro storico.”
On the corner of West Flagler Street in Little Havana, Edukos serves arepitas, hot ceviche, and alligator sliders. About a block from Marlins Park, this cozy, industrially designed tavern isn’t the place for a postgame burger and beer. Categorized as a Venezuelan-American gastropub, Edukos, which opened in early May, is…
Miamians order juice cleanses a whopping 583 percent more than any other city in the nation, which might explain the recent opening of Joe & the Juice, located about a block from Lincoln Road in South Beach.
Before it was filled with the aroma of espresso and the spray-painted canvases of Atomik’s grinning oranges, Javier Betancourt’s White Rose Coffee (6426 SW Eighth St., Miami) was a coke-and-wine den. “When we started building out the bathrooms and pulled down the towel holders, there were stacks and stacks of cocaine baggies behind them”…
June 4 through the summer, Macchialina will offer hand-crafted Sicilian pizzas, oysters, and prosecco.
Sunday brunch at Artisan Beach House is special. Maybe it’s because the restaurant’s bright outdoor patio faces a serene, unobstructed view of the Haulover Cut, with the waves just loud enough to hear as you nosh. Or, maybe it’s the thick slices of fresh bread, toasted to just the right crunch and smeared with creamy avocado or light basil and burrata, that do the trick.
Daniel Serfer’s latest eatery, Mignonette Uptown, offers a traditional cruise dinner for less than $40.
The Crazy Toston combines fried green plantains with delicious Mexican-Venezuelan infused dishes.
There’s more than just burgers and shakes to be had at Lincoln Road’s Shake Shack today. The Miami Beach Shack is ready to debut its newly renovated space with a beats and treats party tonight starting at 6:30. To celebrate, the Shack partnered with the Salty Donut to create an exclusive concrete custard topped with a rainbow sprinkle mini doughnut.
In recent years vast swaths of Florida and South Florida’s most successful food distributors, including many that sell to the city’s best restaurants, have been bought up by national firms whose representatives refused to discuss their plans and operations following several New Times inquiries.
At Estefan Kitchen in the Design District, a trio of musicians kicks things up a notch as soon as the clock strikes 9. A young woman in barely there shorts and her father dance salsa beautifully, while next to them a gentleman in his late 80s starts doing the twist. He gets down so low that for a moment it’s unclear whether he’ll make it back up — but sure enough he does, which earns him a round of applause. Here, it’s business as usual when waiters and bartenders periodically break out in song. The real treat arrives when an elderly man stands and begins belting out opera, and, naturally, the room goes wild.
In Miami, legitimate bagel options are rare. Bagel Bar East, Bagel Cove, and Toasted are the most reliable. Head a bit farther north, and Sage Bagel (along with its array of smoked fish) is the best of the best. But all of those options didn’t seem right for 25-year-old Matteson Koche, who for a few months has run a bagel delivery service via the Instagram account El Bagel.
Years ago, Miami Beach was South Florida’s delicatessen capital. The opening of Hank & Harry’s this past February marked somewhat of a resurgence in Miami’s long deli history (along with proof of hunger for a quality pastrami sandwich).
Niven and Shivani Patel’s Ghee Indian Kitchen began welcoming its first guests earlier this month and already the much-anticipated place has become one of the city’s hardest reservations. There were no two tops available this past Saturday. I was able to sneak in on Tuesday night, where by 8 p.m. the place was packed out like the towering shelves filled with spices and preserve that line one the concrete walls.
