Union Kitchen & Bar

Italy and Peru might seem worlds apart, but at Union Kitchen & Bar, the spirit of each is equally accessible. At their restaurant tucked away in Wilton Manors, husband-and-wife team Christie Tenaud and Roberto Colombi aim to unite the best of both cuisines with a menu that marries Colombi’s Northern Italian heritage with Tenaud’s South […]

Unseen Creatures Brewing & Blending

Unseen Creatures Brewing & Blending husband-and-wife cofounders Marco and Vicky Leyte-Vidal offer Miami-Dade a different type of brewery in the heart of the Bird Road Art District. This is one of the few South Florida breweries with an onsite blending facility specializing in oak barrel-aged, mixed-fermentation wild and sour beers that use local ingredients and […]

USA Seafood and Car Wash

Step out of Miami and into Port-au-Prince at USA Seafood and Car Wash, a character-driven Little Haiti joint notable for its giant parking lot. This place is popular for its take-out, so don’t let the Styrofoam containers and plasticware put you off. Try the griot. The fried pork chunks are plentiful, have a nice fat-to-meat […]

Uva 69

This classic al fresco French café doubles as a wine bar offering an inviting place to hang out and get to know the neighborhood. Stop by for an eye-opening morning café au lait while you savor a fresh-baked pastry, or one of eight breakfast sandwiches, including the tasty campagne: bacon, Brie, caramelized onions, and scrambled […]

Uvaggio Wine Bar

Tucked into a narrow space on the wedding-salon-stuffed Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, the 14-seat Uvaggio serves unforgettable meals that rotate so often you could return every week. A dish you might expect to eat here includes luscious pieces of rabbit cooked sous vide and doused in a red wine reduction that overshadows any lingering […]

Vagabond Restaurant & Bar

At the Vagabond Restaurant & Bar, Alex Chang serves chapulines — grasshoppers sourced from Mexico that are boiled, sun-dried, and roasted in garlic and chilies before they’re vacuum-packed and sent north. Such is what’s now expected of the 25-year-old Chang, who became a quasi-culinary celebrity after he appeared in a documentary about an illegal restaurant […]

Varanda’s Brasil Cafe

Aziza Yuself’s cafe is small, the decor low-key, the clientele overwhelmingly Brazilian,the best sign possible for a Brazilian restaurant! The food is all tasty, but try the excellent muqueca de peixe, a firm fish simmered in coconut sauce, or the feijoada of black beans and pork.

Vegan Cuban Cuisine

Cuban food and Miami go hand in hand, but what if you want the delicious comfort of a croqueta or a pressed sandwich without the animal products? Steven Rodriguez and Lismeilyn “Liz” Machadom – both Cuban, both vegan — decided to make plant-based versions of the foods they grew up with. Vegan Cuban Cuisine, which […]

Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin

OK, so it’s not the most creative name for a vegetarian restaurant, and we have no idea who Hakin is. That said, for meatless Miamians, this place is Mecca. The Rastafarian vegan fare served behind a dull fa