Restaurants

The Magic City, known for its nightlife, beaches, and Cuban sandwiches, is now famous for its plant-based cuisine. Miami has just been named the top vegan hot spot in the United States.

One of Italy’s most beloved pizza chefs, Gino Sorbillo, will open the Miami Beach location of his eponymously-named restaurant this week at 100 Collins Avenue.

The Miami Beach-based concept, which has expanded to Davie, Naples, and Estero, serves a suite of hot and cold vegan eats in a 2,000-square-foot restaurant in the residential and retail complex Aventura ParkSquare.

Niven Patel, Todd Erickson, and Aaron Brooks are among a growing group of Miami chefs who in recent years have partnered with everything from large frozen-food conglomerates to national agricultural promotion boards.

Get ready for a new brunch destination: Weston-based eatery Little Hen is set to make its Miami debut in late November. Helmed by executive chef Efrain Barquero and opening for breakfast and lunch at 3451 NE 1st Ave. in Midtown, the English-inspired cafe will offer an unconventional, yet luxurious take on the most important meal of the day.

For the first time, the Salty Donut will offer a weeklong Halloween doughnut promotion, this Tuesday, October 29, through Sunday, November 3.

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino premiered its Guitar Hotel yesterday with a celebration filled with celebrities, a signature guitar smash, and a pool party complete with mermaids and mermen.

True Food Kitchen is opening its first Miami-area restaurant at the Falls. The health-driven restaurant will replace the former T.G.I.Friday’s and occupies more than 10,000 square feet with an indoor dining room, a patio, and a bar.

The Philadelphia-based chain Rita’s Italian Ice is reportedly getting ready to expand further into South Florida. Their first new location will open Monday, October 28, in Surfside. Three other shops — in Miami Beach, Hialeah, and Hollywood — are projected to open in early 2020.

When Dominic Cavagnuolo opens DC Pie Co. in Brickell later this month, Miamians will no longer have to travel to South Beach to taste one of the best pizzas in town.

Tacos and burritos in an Airstream trailer.

Mama Joon, a homestyle Mediterranean-inspired restaurant with a vegetable-centric menu, is set to debut early next month in Miami Beach. It will be located inside Life House Collins Park, the second South Florida location of the Silicon Valley-backed boutique hotel chain founded in 2017.

From pumpkin tiramisu doughnuts to crisp pumpkin pastelitos, gourd-centric treats are a must-try this season and the perfect pairing for any festive gathering with friends. Here are Miami’s top pumpkin-flavored treats.

It’s the chain’s first location in urban Miami.

Stone crab season officially began this week, which means Miami should be seeing claws sold everywhere from restaurants to markets. But how can you tell whether the stone crabs you’re eating are fresh and frozen? And does it really matter?

After less than a year in operation, Ad Lib will close its doors after dinner service Friday, October 18.

Jose Mendin has learned through experience that the restaurant industry is fluid. Even as the chef is in Paris for the opening of his new restaurant, Moloko, in the Pigalle neighborhood, word has spread that his flagship, Pubbelly Noodle Bar, has closed.

Taiyaki, the place that creates the most iconic, adorable, and Instagrammable frozen treats, is set to make your childhood dreams come true with its new line of Care Bears products.

Tacolandia returns November 16 with unlimited tacos.

When Andy Williams sang “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” he was clearly caroling about Christmas, however most South Floridians would agree that stone crab season is truly the best time of year. Starting next week from October 15 through May 15, locals can feast on freshly caught claws around town at these notable restaurants with great offerings.

The South Beach eatery has been open since 2001.