Restaurants

Now, after 69 years offering everything from imported olive oil to Zak the Baker bread and seasonal stone crabs, Laurenzo’s Italian Market is closing

Four months after opening and quickly becoming a beloved spot for traditional New York-style deli sandwiches, the Pastrami Joint in Little Haiti has closed. The shop’s owners cite issues with its landlord, the co-working property 360 Spaces.

Riverside, a waterfront mixed-use space in Brickell, will offer six culinary options, a taproom, and a full calendar of events.

This month, Ben & Jerry’s is partnering with two organizations to help stem Miami-Dade’s “school-to-prison pipeline” by helping to increase the funding for counselors in public schools.

OLA is back. This time, the executive chef is Carlos Castro, and the location is the Gates Hotel South Beach. Joining him is a team of restaurant veterans with a 16-year history of working together since the Miami Beach eatery’s inception.

This Saturday, July 13, the Magic City will host the inaugural Vegandale Food & Drink Festival at Virginia Key Beach Park. Having popped up in cities such as Chicago, Houston, and New York, the Toronto-based event is traveling south this year to show Miami what vegan life is about.

The name might conjure images of wheatgrass and bean sprouts, but there’s more to Delicious Raw than veggies and juice. The plant-based spot offers an array of colorful, hearty, and nutrient-dense foods designed to appeal to even the salad-averse.

The Salty Donut’s annual mango croughnut special is back, but this year it includes a partnership with James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schwartz and his new Coconut Grove restaurant, Tigertail + Mary.

Doral is now home to Miami’s first vegan-centric gastrolab. The eatery is a “lab,” with its menu items designed to create specific molecular outcomes for guests, from a faster metabolism to better sleep.

When George Laguerre graduated from the School of Visual of Arts in New York City, he bought a car, packed it with everything he had, and moved across the country to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a film cameraman.

How does a Miami restaurant become an institution? The odds are against it. Besides the elements and the constant struggle of building a business, restaurant owners must contend with fickle populations who remake Miami every decade or so as well as breakneck development. The two key elements to making this happen, it seems, are obsession and luck.

Brickellistas, take note: Shake Shack is coming to you! Shake Shack, the Danny Meyer-owned burger chain, opens at Mary Brickell Village tomorrow, July 3. This is the third location in Miami-Dade, with residents of Coral Gables, South Beach, Aventura, and the Falls already enjoying the restaurant’s burgers and crinkle fries.

A year and a half after it closed for renovations, Stephen’s Deli (1000 E. 16th St., Hialeah; 305-887-8863; kushhospitality.com) has reopened in the exact same location with the exact same vibe. The delicatessen does feature one major change: Henderson “Junior” Biggers, the chef who’s worked at Stephen’s for more than…

June was a busy month for Miami’s culinary scene. The participating restaurants for Miami Spice 2019 were announced and New Times’ annual Best of Miami gave kudos to dozens of eateries throughout the city. Notable openings included Danny Serfer’s sub shop, Vinaigrette, and Boia De. Of course, the iconic Stephen’s Deli reopened in Hialeah. This summer, look forward to a weekly pop-up by Royal Castle, Swizzle Rum Bar, and Spanglish in Wynwood.

Yoko Matcha, Miami’s first specialty matcha café, has found a new home inside Dasher & Crank. Yoko’s founder, Chié Dambara, is taking charge of the ice cream shop’s café bar, serving a variety of matcha-based drinks and snacks. “Core to Dasher & Crank’s mission is to support and collaborate with Miami’s…

Normandy Isle has a new dining spot adding to its colorful roster of restaurants. Every evening at Capri New Style, Massimiliano Stamerra can be found by the wood oven spinning pizza dough over his head, pulling and stretching it as it twirls in front of his face, whipping it around his body, under his legs, then sending the dough into the air, only to catch it and send it in a different direction.

Describing Michael Schwartz’s food these days is no easy task. The tag line of his Design District flagship, Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, which opened in 2006 and earned him a James Beard Award in 2010, is “Fresh, Simple, Pure.” That often meant locally or thoughtfully sourced ingredients that are…

Now open in Little River, the Plantisserie is an organic, plant-based deli selling prepared foods like empanadas, quiches, lasagna, shepherd’s pie, and weekly specials.

Andrew Gonzalez, the 27-year-old owner of Miami’s wildly popular Night Owl Cookies, has seen more success in the last seven years than most do in a lifetime. Since dropping out of college in 2012 to pursue baking, Gonzalez has amassed numerous awards, from a spot on Forbes’ annual “30 Under…

uciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer who since 2017 have kept Edgewater, the Design District, and the surrounding neighborhoods satiated with tacos of house made tortillas filled with a bounty of Proper Sausages proteins will close their Design District cart at the end of this month to make way for their forthcoming restaurant Boia De, situated in the Buena Vista neighborhood.

As a kid, Danny Serfer’s parents used to take him to a Broward County sub shop that unknowingly set the standard for all future sandwiches the chef would eat. “It was a local place in a strip mall that sold subs, VHS tapes to rent, candy, and we would always go there and order ham and cheese with lettuce with this amazing salad dressing,” he said. “Ever since then, I’ve been chasing that dragon.”

A family-run bakery in Edgewater offers artisanal Italian pastries, savories, pizza.