Restaurants

Taking over the 25th-floor space at the Conrad Miami, Top Chef alum Pablo Lamon debuted Nativo Kitchen + Bar this week. Lamon, a native of Argentina, is the executive chef.

After a $70 million renovation, the historic art deco Greystone Hotel in Miami Beach is slated to open later this month with a new look and five culinary and drinking venues.

This is the start of the first week of a new year and a new decade. Though the new year started last week, many of us were still wrapping up vacations in Mexico or hosting family — a bad time to start working on those resolutions. Today is Monday and…

Amid the hullabaloo of winter in Miami, several restaurants opened. Highlights include the reopening of the Regent Cocktail Club, a beloved lounge where some of Miami’s best bartenders prepare proper drinks with care; and the debut of Frohzen, a wonderland of upscale treats.

In just a couple of days, a new decade will dawn. Many people enjoy starting the year with a lavish brunch with family and friends. If you’d rather not spend the day cooking, check out these Miami restaurants with the best brunch buffets this Wednesday, January 1.

What was once a pesky weed growing in Cuba’s countryside, marabu in recent years has become a major Cuban export for its use as artisanal charcoal in everything from hookahs to pizza ovens. In 2017, it became the first Cuban export to the United States in decades. And now Miami is making the proverbial lemonade out of it.

Chris Paciello and Mio Danilovic are set to open a beach club next to Jungle Island.

The Miami food scene lost a lot this year.

Cuban-American restaurateur Jason Odio is set to open his first Miami Beach concept in early January 2020: Bebito’s Casa de Cafecito.

Time to put on the Ritz: After a multiyear renovation, the Ritz-Carlton South Beach will finally reopen in late January.

Brothers Assaf and Tal Hadad missed the food from home. Born in Hadera, Israel, a 40-minute car ride north of Tel Aviv, they moved to Ariel, a settlement in the occupied West Bank, when Assaf was 12. There they grew up surrounded by a rainbow of cuisines.

It’s hard to believe that something as simple as a salad could garner a rabid fan base. However, anyone who has eaten at Sweetgreen knows why this fast-casual salad shrine has a cult-like following. Next year, Miami will get in on the action when Sweetgreen locations open in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove.

Miami’s five best desserts to take to holiday parties this season.

For years there’s been a slow creep of traditional Chinese cuisine into Miami. Much of it has taken place in the western part of the county where, thanks to a campaign by University of Miami and Florida International University to recruit Chinese students, there is a growing population who simply couldn’t live without the flavors. After all, who should be expected to?

7y One Restaurant & Coffee serves a variety of Venezuelan dishes in Miami Beach.

Here we are at the tail end of 2019, and there’s little time to waste. No more explaining is needed about the cultural mashup that is modern-day Miami, nor do we need to talk any further about the glut of food halls. But on the noisy strip of Bird Road that links Coral Gables and Westchester, a trio of side-by-side fast-casual restaurants has taken root, bringing together three seemingly unrelated styles of eating.

The new shop serves ice-cream cupcakes, cakesickles, macaron ice-cream sandwiches, and other frozen treats.

From the death of a beloved fixture on the local food scene to the elation of worldwide recognition for a bartender who’s a mentor to many in the industry, these are the moments that weave the fabric of the culinary community in Miami.

When Michael Schwartz visited Singapore this fall, he skipped all of the fine-dining restaurants for hawker stalls and mom-and-pop joints. It was in the streets and night markets of Southeast Asia that the James Beard Award-winning chef found the inspiration he sought for his new concept inside the Como Metropolitan Miami Beach.

Miami is in the midst of a fresh pasta revolution.

Over the summer Thiago and Elena Gamoeda opened the aptly named Sfiha’s House specializing in their homeland’s ubiquitous Arab-Brazilian snacks alongside some more of Brazil’s familiar grab-and-go bites.

Chef Allen Susser has a murderous intention. The venerable chef wants to put an end to lionfish, the invasive species that has been taking over reefs in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. “They’re currently desecrating our reefs, and we need to rid ourselves of these lionfish.”