For conscious eaters, Whole Foods is the holy grail of shopping destinations. And now, Bunnie Cakes, Miami’s first vegan, gluten-free, and allergy-conscious bakery, is offering its sweet treats in all Miami-Dade Whole Foods locations. The Pinecrest, Coral Gables, Downtown, South Beach, North Miami and Aventura stores are all stocking six-packs of…
The Southeast Overtown / Park West Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) says negotiations are chugging along between itself and Marcus Samuelsson for a restaurant, lounge, and supper club in a onetime Overtown pool hall. Yet a spokeswoman for the Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef and his restaurant company says otherwise. “Marcus (and his…
Starting today, snag a pairing of doughnuts and pizza at Spris thanks to Honeybee Doughnuts. The one-weekend-only pop-up will feature hand-selected doughy treats by Karen Muirhead, founder of Honeybee, coupled with warm slices of dough, sauce, and cheese. “Pizza and doughnuts naturally go together,” Muirhead says. “Any of our flavors would pair beautifully with…
There’s no denying that dining out in Miami can be hazardous to your wallet. Just a quick burger and a soda can run beyond $20. That’s great for a once a week outing, but too many weekday lunch outings can break the bank. Richard Hales learned firsthand that Miamians are…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival returns to the beach this year for another long weekend of parties, dinners, and celebrity sightings. This year, the festival returns for its 16th year, with venues in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, South Miami, and Bal Harbour in addition to its South Beach base…
The hidden treasure at Sweet Liberty Drink & Supply Company in South Beach is the “She Said Yes.” It’s a flowery, aromatic affair that includes sherry spiked with gin, sharpened with muddled raspberries, and then dashed with cucumber. “It’s a low-alcohol cocktail,” says a raven-haired, curvaceous beauty behind a glass-and-steel…
Little more than two months after starting at Michael Schwartz’s eponymous Design District restaurant, Saul Ramos has been named chef de cuisine, overseeing the kitchen as it enters its tenth year in business and prepares to launch a menu rife with new items. Slated to roll out early next week,…
Miami Spice isn’t the only thing happening this month. National Yoga Month kicked off last week, lasting through the end of September. To celebrate, Icebox Cafe has partnered with Green Monkey’s Paula Walker to craft a specialty menu just for Miami’s yogi community. If yoga isn’t your thing, don’t worry…
Verde’s executive chef Kaytlin Brakefield is at it once more — Museum-goers can once again have their art and eat it too. Honoring the Perez Art Museum’s latest exhibit Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, a compilation of work created by the late American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brakefield has crafted a unique and limited-time menu celebrating his…
Michael Schwartz is opening a third branch of his popular casual eatery, Harry’s Pizzeria. With a flagship in the Design District and a location in Coconut Grove, Schwartz is looking to Kendall for his third spot. Schwartz will open a Harry’s Pizzeria in Downtown Dadeland, at 8975 SW 72 Pl. in…
Michael Solomonov’s Dizengoff is as simple as an ashram. Step inside and to the left find two meager tables next to a towering wall lined with newspapers and magazines printed with blocky Hebrew. It takes three, maybe four more steps to arrive at the cashier who stands below a white…
Sunday brunch at Midtown Oyster Bar is simple. Its new Sunday soiree, which launched August 21, blends the eatery’s seafood staples with brunch-inspired favorites. If you’re wondering what that means, think benedicts and a lot of them. The menu, which features only six dishes, offers three different benedicts ($13-$18), which means…
For chefs in need of a little culinary inspo, Little River Cooperative’s CSA is offering some totally unusual finds, delivered straight to a restaurant’s door. This is the second year that the local farm is offering a CSA share made for chefs. The 10-week program is designed to offer an…
The 250-seat hybrid taqueria and market Tacology is slated to open in the sprawling Brickell City Centre as soon as November offering paletas, ceviches, and salads alongside traditional street-style tacos and more upscale creations. “It’s going to be like a mercado with four open kitchens and a terrace,” said executive…
August was quite a challenge for many restaurant owners. Despite a financial shot in the arm from Miami Spice, restaurateurs had to contend with not only the normal lull of a Miami summer, but with a Zika outbreak. Thankfully, the local Miami restaurant community has shown resiliency in the face…
Intimate, chef-driven experiences can get expensive and hiring a personal toque for an evening soiree is near impossible. Fudi, a culinary experience app based in South Florida, wants to change that. The software, created in early 2016 by techie Nizar Lavji, allows chefs and home cooks to create unique restaurant…
Sabrina Mancin, a Miami-based chef, met Alain Torres, a former Volkswagen director in South Africa, in 2011 at a wedding in Tennessee. They fell in love and married. Five years later, Nanndi was born. Their pride and joy, which comes in the form of a frozen cream and pastry shop, opened…
Since the inception of Relentless Roasters in 2013, a Miami-based wholesale coffee roaster, co-founder Daniel Paguaga has dreamed about making his brews accessible. His seed-to-cup blends have sprouted up across South Florida, making waves in eateries like Sweetness Bake Shop, Threefold Cafe, and Miami Smokers. At C.B. Station, short for Cold Brew Station, Paguaga’s…
The Miami Dolphins’ newly minted Hard Rock Stadium is ready for fans with a shaded canopy, giant LCD screens, and the ability to pay for parking using SunPass. Unfortunately, unlike past years, the’s not a lot of new food concessions to talk about, with the annual media dine around to…
We’re halfway through Miami Spice, giving us about 30 more days to sample more than 200 different eateries. If your evenings are packed, squeeze in a mid-day grub session as many of Spice’s restaurants offer rich lunches for a mere $23. Even better, book a lunch meeting with a client…
“I’m tired of being a pioneer,” said Jeremiah Bullfrog to an enthusiastic audience last week at the Langford Hotel. The GastroPod chef-owner was one of five panelists invited by Disrupt Miami to discuss the city’s ever-evolving culinary scene. He was responding to the question on everyone’s mind: where is the…
As construction crews toiled away in the yawning, gilded space that houses Pao by Paul Qui, owners of the Faena Hotel Miami Beach were fixated on centerpiece art for the dining room. “One of the funniest conversations with them was about seriously asking Damien Hirst to create another mammoth, but…
