For down-home cooking at a family-owned spot, head to the quaint Miami Springs. Like the town in which it’s located, Crackers Casual Dining is otherworldly. It’s a cozy, comfortable place that feels far from the traffic-snarled Dolphin Expressway and even farther from the jockeying of South Beach. And to Jeff and Jo Mitnick, it’s home, […]
Soul Food in Miami New Times
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In 1946, Jessie and Demas Jackson opened Mama’s Cafe in Overtown. The restaurant saw Miami’s historic Black community rise, fall, and rise again. Generations later, the family business had become legendary for its traditional soul food. In addition to Overtown, Jackson Soul Food has an outpost in Opa-locka; both locations offer traditional favorites, including fried […]
Karim Bryant and Nicole Gates own this charming little spot in Overtown that offers modern takes on classic soul-food dishes. Bryant, who oversees the kitchen, has a solid foundation built on stints at Capital Grille, Prime 112, and BLT Prime in Doral. With a background in radio, Gates has the task of spreading the word […]
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It’s neither a sports bar nor a funky chitterlings joint, but a handsome soul food restaurant with warm mahogany accents and fresh flowers on white linen tablecloths. Resist eating too much of the irresistible corn bread, in order to save room for crisp and crackly fried chicken with waffles – or substitute sides of collard […]
This is the sort of place whose description necessitates the mention of something like: “Now mind you, it’s not much to look at.” It appears to have once been a Dairy Queen-like operation, a stand-alone rectangular box with an angled take-out window. But for those willing to take the road less traveled for the sake […]
Born as a pop-up with a short menu of breakfast-inspired eats, husband-and-wife team Jamila Ross and Akino West’s Rosie’s restaurant is now a Friday-through-Sunday brunch gem in Miami’s burgeoning Little River neighborhood. The industrial-inspired space is set off by a tree-lined outdoor patio – a suitable spot to enjoy a Southern-inspired menu that checks all […]
The Rumcake Factory is a funny name for a place that creates some of the best Cajun food in town, but that’s just how the business evolved. Husband-wife owners Larry and Elena Robinson began catering in 2002 with Larry cooking the food he grew up with in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The rum cake, his mother’s recipe, […]
The specialty at this fast-food joint is seafood – everything from Miami menu classics (grouper and snapper) to soul food classics such as catfish, whiting, and ocean perch, all deep-fried. Sides, most also deep-fried, range (in descending quality) from very tasty onion rings and slaw through decent corn nuggets, okay okra and conch fritters, mediocre […]
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