Southern in Miami New Times
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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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
As the decade turned, celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson imported his Harlem Red Rooster to Overtown. Situated on the former site of Clyde Killens’ pool hall, where Black stars from Aretha Franklin to Sam Cooke to Muhammad Ali used to mingle, the restaurant offers dishes that encompass influences from Africa, the Southern U.S., the Caribbean, and […]
Restaurant and life partners Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth bring their New York City-based Southern restaurant to South Beach. The menu, similar to the one at the flagship up North, includes an array of down-home goodies, with items that call to the chefs’ respective roots. McInnis is represented by the “bucket of bird.” A half […]
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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 […]
There are many places in Miami that serve Chinese dim sum, but only one restaurant offers an American version: the Sarsaparilla Club at the Shelborne Wyndham Grand South Beach. During the appetizer portion of the meal, apron-clad waiters approach each table with pushcarts containing an assortment of American-inspired bites and small plates. The chefs behind […]
The owners and executive chef (Michael Altman) of nearby Town Kitchen & Bar succeed at Smoke”t using the same formula: popular American fare, affordable pricing, and – perhaps most important – a lively bar scene. The last gets sparked by a wide array of tequilas, margaritas, and more than 80 bottled beers from across the […]
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 […]
Located in a boutique-spangled strip on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Swine Southern Table & Bar is a pork-themed place. Swine’s setting is leisurely and cavernous; it sits inside a lofted two-story space lined with barn-wood walls and shelves holding colorful pickling jars. On the menu, there’s mac and cheese with bacon, Brussels sprouts in bacon […]
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Yardbird’s appeal borrows from other factors beyond the buoyant bill of fare. The farmhouse decor, American blues music, and overall ambiance are synchronized with the Southern fare to the extent of enhancing the meals like some secret seasoning. Yardbird hits all the right notes with a menu of “small plates” and “big plates.” Delectable successes […]