Restaurants

Four months after opening Pubbelly Sushi inside Brickell City Centre, the boys are back with a fourth location and an updated concept: Pubbelly Sushi Market at Aventura Mall.

Eating House, Chopped champion Giorgio Rapicavoli’s popular Coral Gables restaurant, has given its Sunday brunch a face-lift. Beginning Saturday, April 15, the eatery’s Wakin-N-Bacon menu will extend to Saturday and Sunday, as well as debut a selection of new plates.

Sushi Maki is set to open in Coconut Grove at 2550 S. Bayshore Dr. this Saturday, April 15, marking the local Japanese chain’s seventh standalone location. With the expansion comes a significant transformation in the restaurant’s service. Sushi Maki’s founder, Abe Ng, calls it “fine casual.”

Miami’s first artisanal cookie shop opened its first wholesale location today in Little River (7320 NE Second Ave., Miami). Though there are no tables or seats inside Cindy Lou’s Cookies, the storefront welcomes walk-in customers.

The key to happiness comes in different forms and flavors. For many, it’s circular in shape, delightfully sweet in taste but tart enough to make you pucker. It’s a major key DJ Khaled has yet to mention: key lime pie. As Florida’s official state pie, the heavenly dessert uses the tiny, tangy marble-shaped citrus fruit of the key lime tree, famously grown in the Florida Keys and even in our own backyards. Good news is we don’t always need to take a trek over the Seven Mile Bridge to get our hands on some of the best. Those craving key lime pie can find various pleasant versions at restaurants throughout the 305. But the following ten spots know exactly how to make this always-sunny dish shine.

Of all the dishes on the menu at celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s new restaurant, Point Royal, the lobster roll is the item worthiest of a trip to the strip of A1A where Hollywood meets Hallandale Beach. There’s no chopped or minced meat here. A whole Maine lobster is steamed until…

Passover, one of Judaism’s holiest holidays, kicked off on Monday night, marking a week-long fest in which Jews, despite cravings, abstain from chametz, which is leavened foods made from wheat, rye, spelt, barley, or oats. That means no ice cream, unless you swing by Serendipity, a tiny artisanal ice cream shop with locations in Wynwood and Surfside.

On Saturday, May 20, from noon to 3 p.m., New Times’ Out to Brunch will allow you to enjoy bites from Miami’s best restaurants in one place.

Easter is almost here, and in Miami, that means perfect weather for selfies with the Easter Bunny and egg-hunting by the beach. Head to one of the many restaurants offering specials for the day. Reservations are strongly suggested or in some cases required, and tax and tip are generally not included.

Easter Sunday is approaching fast. Whether the morning finds you hunting for eggs, taking pics with the Easter Bunny, or headed to sunrise service, be sure to schedule a proper brunch and toast the day with a cocktail or two. Reservations are suggested, and most prices exclude tax and gratuity.

The sandwich is the most creative of meals. An empty canvas of two pieces of bread (or cookies or lettuce or a roll) is there for the artist to draw his or her masterpiece. The only limitations are the chef’s mind and the size of the mouth for which the dish is intended.

Upscale seafood restaurant Lobster Bar Sea Grille has opened up a new location in South Beach.

Local sushi restaurant chain Sushi Sake will open its 14th location Monday, April 10, in downtown Miami. Located across on Biscayne Boulevard across from the American Airlines Arena, the 3,500-square-foot space with an adjacent terrace is the largest Sushi Sake outpost yet.

Seaspice’s weekend brunch has become a staple in downtown. It blends the restaurant’s unparalleled location on the Miami River with a small selection of indulgent plates at affordable prices. Springing into April, the eatery launched an assortment of new dishes. Though the menu is still small, it offers enough variety to satisfy the pickiest of diners. Think of it as comfort food disguised as culinary works of art.

Years ago, Miami Beach reigned as South Florida’s deli capital. Places such as Wolfie Cohen’s, Pumperniks, and Juniors served traditional deli-style meals like corned beef on rye bread and bowls of warm matzoh ball soup to thousands of customers. But as Miami’s Jewish population moved north, most establishments shuttered.

It’s been more than two years since Taquiza’s Steve Santana got his lava rock grinder going, turning corn into the dough called masa at his South Beach taco spot while ushering in a new wave of places dishing out better versions of tortilla-wrapped meat and vegetables than the city has ever seen.

Ever since Gabrielle Marewski put her iconic Homestead property, Paradise Farms, up for sale, Miamians have wondered who would end up owning the bucolic spot. Now the deal is finalized, and Karla Dascal, founder of Wynwood’s Sacred Space, is the farm’s new steward.

“Meraki” is a term Greeks use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, and love. It entails putting a little of yourself into whatever you do, and that’s precisely what owner Alex Karavias did with Meraki Greek Bistro (142 SE First Ave., Miami; 786-773-1535), which debuted several months ago. It’s always been his dream to open an authentic Greek restaurant, so he and his wife renovated an intimate space in an alley hidden in downtown Miami.

It turns out longtime Miami caterer and restaurateur Ken Lyon is running the bar at the Wynwood Yard. It’s the one that requires you pay a corkage fee for your bottle of nigori sake before you sit down for Ryo Kato’s omakase at Myumi. The Yard’s founder, Della Heiman, turned to Lyon, who helped revitalize Lincoln Road when he opened the gourmet market Lyon Frères et Compagnie in 1992, to get her food truck up and running in the summer of 2015.

As a young boy in Naples, Italy, Giovanni Gagliardi remembers dragging a chair up to the counter in his grandfather’s kitchen. Though he was too short to reach the top, he was determined to make pizza without anyone’s help. This spring, Gagliardi, who helped open Ironside Pizza in Little River, will start up…

March was a busy month for South Florida, with plenty of restaurant openings (so many it’s hard to keep track) and barely any notable closings. The month welcomed the addition of long-awaited establishments/. There was everything from craft brewery NoBo Brewing Co. in Boynton Beach to ramen hotspot Ramen Lab…

After hours of drinking, your stomach is a gurgling mess. You need something to eat, and fast. So you stumble north on Collins Avenue and turn on 20th Street toward the beach. A small sign that reads “K Ramen. Burger. Beer” lures you into the Townhouse Hotel. After stepping through the narrow front door, you’re guided down a black staircase and into a room with the frenetic lights and sounds of a Japanese pachinko parlor.