Some people need special lighting, kitschy artwork, stuffy classical music, and sky-high prices to feel like they’re buying gourmet. If that’s you, skip Laurenzo’s, where the focus is on awesome food at reasonable prices. The store is huge, offering hard-to-find high-end and/or imported grocery products, gorgeous produce (from the farmers’ market across the street), luscious […]
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Lettuce & Tomato is a swank gastropub that offers an industrial yet warm atmosphere tucked away on West Dixie Highway at NE 171st Street. Featuring a juxtaposition of Latin and Asian flavors, the menu lists plates such as huevos rotos, served with hand-cut garlic French fries, sofrito, serrano ham, three fried eggs, and a pinch […]
Making waves in North Miami Beach, Lique lets guests get a glimpse of the luxe life via South of France flair and South Beach vibes. It doesn’t get much better than this. But then it does. Oh, hello, yachts. Take a seat on the open deck overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, and you’ll see lots of […]
Long one of the bright lights in Miami’s quality-challenged Asian culinary scene, this cramped, no-frills eatery still turns out creditable Vietnamese cuisine. Cha gio are excellent, and blue crabs in a tart-sweet tamarind sauce are worth the amount of effort it takes to extract the minuscule nuggets of crabmeat. Be advised: Little Saigon takes cash […]
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This is a classic New York-style pizza joint. There’s no decor aside from the requisite cheese and pepperoni art prints and a flashing neon “open” sign. Hurried servers juggle multiple slices as busy downtown workers expend their half-hour lunch breaks on cheap grub. The first Mario’s opened in 1969, and many branches have followed, with […]
The sweet smell of cakes a-bakin’ tickles your nose way before you step into Mary Ann Bakery, and you’d have to be subhuman to resist the urge to walk into this unassuming little spot tucked away on 163rd Street. The front window is filled with birthday and bridal cakes, and although they look (and probably […]
North Miami Beac’hs Mazzi Cucina sits in a strip mall near the former location of Yakko-San that today houses favorites such as the Vietnamese spot PhoMi2Go, Filipino restaurant Lutong Pinoy, and Lettuce & Tomato, which is run by a former Epicure chef. The place is filled with knickknacks that describe generations of chef/owner Stefano Mazzi’s […]
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The fruit juices are fine at this juice bar/eatery, which has been an oasis of cool in a rather unhip neighborhood since 1992. The small selection of organic produce, vitamin supplements, and other healthful groceries is also of reliably high quality. What distinguishes this place from the average smoothie shop, though, are its strongly Middle […]
Danny Serfer never intended to start a mini-empire. But the 36-year-old chef opened Blue Collar, a small MiMo District restaurant in 2012; debuted Mignonette, a larger seafood and oyster bar with business partner/buddy Ryan Roman, in 2014; and just a few months ago began operating Mignonette Uptown in North Miami Beach.
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The big, roomy 160-seat restaurant is more deli than bagel shop – specifically a New York neighborhood “kosher-style” deli. It serves soups, salads, Hebrew National hot dogs, and all manner of smoked fish and deli meats; matzoh brei; challah French toast; delectably sweet, vanilla-infused homemade blintzes; thick wedges of noodle pudding made the old-fashioned way […]
George Wilensky started the New Deal Market in 1957. These days, his son Heshey runs it, which makes it – to our knowledge – the only butcher shop in South Florida that has operated under the same ownership and in the same location for more than 50 years. The formula hasn’t changed much through the […]