The best things in life are free. Unless it’s La Mar’s Peruvian brunch extravaganza. Nosh away on an array of flavorful bites on their intimate waterfront terrace or inside with a deep-house DJ spinning in the background. Sunday brunch at the Mandarin Oriental eatery is bold. Start at their extensive hot…
Jugofresh, Miami’s (and Beyonce’s) favorite hometown juicery and healthy living headquarters, is about to get even bigger. The company announced it’ll be opening five new shops inside Whole Foods Markets across South Florida, and Aventura is first. The company opened their first two store-inside-a-store locations at Whole Foods Market Downtown…
It’s been a year since the now permanent, pop-up bar Better Days debuted in Brickell. And our favorite longtime pop-up announced the opening of a second pop-up called Bareroot, launching tonight. Think of it as your new go-to place for reinterpreted “trashy bar food.” But instead of the grease and grime,…
It’s no secret there’s poverty in Miami. Just blocks away from multi-million dollar condos are underprivileged communities struggling to survive. Our city is disjointed – a puzzle of pieces that just won’t snap into place. As skyscrapers grow and businesses boom, the wealth gap is widening and the less fortunate…
For Rachael Ray, 2015 is a remarkable year. The celebrity chef will release her 22nd book on October 27. The tome, Everyone is Italian on Sunday, features recipes and stories from her family. Ray is also celebrating a serendipitous series of 10-year anniversaries. On September 14, her daytime show will celebrate…
It doesn’t get any better than ice cream cake. Except when ice cream is replaced with gelato. And when that gelato is hazelnut flavored. Yep, your wildest gelato meets cake dreams are now a reality thanks to Gelato-Go. Our Best Of gelato pick for 2013, Gelato-Go has been serving up…
Phuc Yea, the Vietnamese pop-up is on the cusp of opening its permanent location at the former Moonchine space (7100 Biscayne Blvd.).Partners Aniece Meinhold and Cesar Zapata, who also own The Federal Food Drink & Provisions just a few miles down the road, are poised to serve Viet-noms once again…
NaiYaRa finally opens the end of next month at 1854 Bay Rd. in Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood. One of 2015’s most anticipated restaurants, the eatery by Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, known to most of Miami as Chef Bee, joins Pubbelly, Lucali, Icebox Cafe, La Moderna, Barceloneta, making this the most exciting…
About a decade ago, I somehow managed to snag an invitation to a party thrown by Anthony Hopkins at the Four Seasons in New York City. Trying hard to keep my jaw from dropping, I counted no less than a dozen Academy Award winning stars sipping Champagne and chatting away…
Your ideas about bibimbap may have been formed during a visit to the ethnic enclaves of Koreatown in New York or California—cities overabundant in tasty traditional Korean cuisine—or perhaps in its motherland with an extra side of gochujang. But odds are you have never tried anything like the bibimbap way…
Jaya, a modern Asian-inspired resto, will open in The Setai in late November with Chopped champion executive chef Mathias Gervais. Gervais won the Sept. 17 episode of the Food Network’s Chopped. Jaya will replace the hotel’s signature eatery, The Restaurant. Hotel reps say renovations, like an open kitchen design, will be made…
It seems the old adage, “when one door closes, another one opens” rings true for Masaharu Morimoto — at least when it comes to Florida restaurants. The Iron Chef is closing Morimoto South Beach on September 30, just about one year after the date of its opening. The restaurant’s publicist…
It’s been almost a decade since Jared Galbut and Keith Menin teamed up to take over the Sanctuary South Beach. The cousins had long run businesses like car washes together as kids and worked in hotels as teenagers, but 2005 marked a next step for the then-20-somethings. Since then, the…
Uncle Tom’s Barbecue is in a growth spurt. The restaurant that has been serving up ribs to Miami denizens since 1948, opens the doors to its latest location in Homestead, today. The barbecue mecca starts serving today at 11 a.m. at 128 N. Krome Ave. in Homestead’s historic downtown district…
Cuba may be known as the land that spice forgot, but that hasn’t stopped Cuban-American chefs from trying to build upon their list of hearty homestyle classics. It all started with Douglas Rodriguez, widely recognized as the godfather of Nuevo Latino cuisine. Lately Alberto Cabrera of the recently refurbished Bread…
Michelle Barnstein, the James-Beard award-winning chef, cares about what you eat. That’s why she wants you to take a selfie with your favorite produce and tag #DrinkGoodDoGood. Bernstein is the Miami ambassador for the Naked Juice and Wholesome Wave #DrinkGoodDoGood campaign, which will donate up to 500,000 pounds of produce…
Piripi, the Miami Beach Spanish-fusion restaurant, has transformed what diners know as traditional Sunday brunch to a two-day “espectacular,” running every Saturday and Sunday. The menu showcases recently appointed executive chef Angelina Bastidas’ twist on traditional Latin cuisine with a three-course prix fixe menu for $27 per person. Start off slow with…
If you look at any television or movie depiction of Miami Beach, you’ll probably see flamingos. Those delightful pink creatures seem to turn up in everyone’s dream vision of Miami, yet when was the last time you actually saw a real, live flamingo? Wouldn’t seeing a flock of these birds…
It seems every other storefront in downtown Miami offers up sandwiches stuffed with processed lunch meat and salads stacked on flaccid greens. Recently there have been a few respites like Niu Kitchen, Cafe Pastis, Burrito-San, and Peruvian sandwiches at Station 28, but still many of the area’s businesses take a…
A week after Top Chef France contestant Christophe Bribard and his wife Hanane were married, they packed up their bags and moved to the United States. Now, after two years of toiling in kitchens and dining rooms in Miami, often on different schedules so they go days without seeing each…
Even before the first pizza comes out of the oven at Harry’s second location, Michael Schwartz is doubling down on Coconut Grove. The chef just signed a deal with The Related Group and Terra Group to open a restaurant at Park Grove (2701 S. Bayshore Dr.), a condominium development described as,…
Stephen Starr, the Philadelphia-based restaurateur, plans to open a new French brasserie in Bal Harbour this fall. Le Zoo will be Starr’s fifth restaurant in the Magic City, and second in the luxury mall. It is steps away from his upscale, Japanese eatery Makoto. It will take over the former space of…
