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A breathtaking sunset over a stunning bay and pool-scape feet from the chic restaurant terrace, white-on-white whimsical wonderland effects indoors, and big, distinctive Asian-Latin fusion cuisine – it’s all pretty impressive. Diners can start with a tower of tuna tartare picadillo-style – flecked with currants, almonds, coconut, and olives in soy-lime juice – but we […]
Azul chef Joel Huff apprenticed under Jos
This self-explanatory supper/dance club oozes silky seduction with a dreamy decor featuring king-size beds garnished with snow-white drapes. Nightly house music and hip-hop affairs attract a jet-set crowd. This is one hard place to get a seat: Beds take up waaay more room than tables. And then there’s B.E.D.’s reservation system. There are exactly two […]
The swank, attractive surroundings; swank, attractive crowd; thoughtful wine list; alluring fare; and countless titillating details make Barton G. a daringly and delightfully different restaurant in Miami Beach. Cuisine here can be whimsical and down-home or tastefully sophisticated – the point is, you can eat any which way you please, from crisped pork shank lacquered […]
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Basil Park is Tim Andriola’s healthful, long-awaited followup to his Mediterranean mainstay, Timo. For the bright, airy bistro, he partnered with Tamer Harpke, a farmer with tracts in Hollywood and Dania Beach that produce the restaurant’s microgreens and soon up to 30 percent of its produce. But beyond Basil Park’s farm-to-table aspirations and “intact foods” […]
Bizcaya’s meu encompasses two soups (including a decent gazpacho with crabmeat), two salads (citrus lobster and blackened tuna Nicoise), five appetizers (try the succulent scallops with polenta cake and lemon-truffle vinaigrette), and a number of entr
Inside Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts you’ll find Brava, the restaurant located on the second floor of Arsht’s Ziff Ballet Opera House. The restaurant’s 2021 reopening coincides with the launch of a new menu heavily inspired by classic French cuisine, with starters like sherry-spiked lobster bisque and filet mignon steak tartare to pan-seared […]
The sushi bar tenders a first-rate array of maki rolls, nigiri sushi, sashimi, and temaki (cones); even the California roll, usually crammed with crappy surimi, is laden with luscious lumps of blue crab. The sake selection rocks as well, from aged, sherrylike Hanahato Kijoshu to fruity Harushika Daiginjo. The elegant interior, replete with loud, splashy […]
The food at most bookstore cafés usually encourages more fear and loathing than great expectations, but the cute little Café at Books & Books is actually a casual, inexpensive, unpretentious garden of earthly delights. The menu covers all the expected soup-salad-sandwich bases but also offers a few more adventurous options. Try the guava-glazed pork tenderloin […]
Thai ceviche brings Key West shrimp marinated in pomelo juice perked with jÃ
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Miami chef, author, and TV personality Adrianne Calvo offers guests a taste of her signature “maximum flavor” recipes with her namesake restaurant located in The Palms at Town & Country. Here, find her take on modern, refined American fare alongside a wide assortment of California wines, served amid wine-country decor.
The refurbished restaurant is now billed as a “modern seafood bistro,” the emphasis being placed on local, sustainable fish and produce – and on lower prices, an effort to change the perception of Allen’s from fine-dining destination to casual neighborhood haunt. Start with seafood chowder – a thin, bracing broth brimming with fresh shellfish – […]
You like meat loaf? Of course you do. Then you’ll surely love a whole lot of it, as in a miniloaf sweetly glazed with tomato marmalade, flagged with frizzy fried onions, and paired with skinny green beans, a side of old-school gravy, and a dish of mac ‘n’ cheese — a sweet-and-salty rendition with chorizo […]
Beer & tapas make a great pair. Just ask the regulars at this unassuming spot. As far as brew options, they’ve got somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 bottles of beer on the wall — plus drafts, wine and cocktails to boot. Pair your fave fermented option with tapas, including quesadillas, tacos, nachos and hot […]
Dining at DB is a classy experience from start to finish. Service is professional, and the waiters are well informed on the cuisine — orchestrated by executive chef Jarrod Verbiak, who has worked with Daniel Boulud for nearly a decade. Sommelier John Mayfield entertains an encyclopedic knowledge of the wines that compose a 30-plus page […]
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With all the oceanfront venues in SoBe, it’s surprising that the Ritz-Carlton’s DiLido Beach Club is one of a stingy handful of restaurant/lounges that allows guests open access to and from the beach. Named after the original building the Ritz Carlton now inhabits, The DiLido is open to the public and offers a Mediterranean-inspired menu […]
A dimly lit chandelier and some table candles illuminate this intimate Washington Avenue venue; a large mirror and family-style photos of the owners serve as d
The roasted eggplant dip at Driftwood Room, the new restaurant at the revamped Nautilus South Beach Hotel, arrives packed inside a charred zucchini. Diners have two options: Plunge the accompanying pita slices into the tangy eggplant, or cut right into the zucchini and enjoy two tasty vegetables in one bite, sans bread. Such was the […]
This North Miami Beach spot’s decor screams of the heady 1970s, and the food offers flavors bombastic enough to fit the bill. Asparagus spears are topped with a fried egg and nutty shards of manchego cheese. The seemingly vegan-friendly kale salad takes a shameless topping of pork belly. Chef Will Biscoe, formerly of Jeffrey Chodorow’s […]