Smoke’t Southern Kitchen & Tap

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 […]

Son Cubano

Like so many Cuban places across Miami, Son Cubano tries to replicate a jubilant Havana night. Sometime around 10 p.m., the fedora-wearing trumpet player inside the Coral Gables restaurant Son Cubano decides he’s had enough of slow-paced melodies and jumps into some driving salsa. Soon a dozen guayabera- and pantsuit-clad diners are on their feet […]

South Miami Farmers’ Market

When you tire of the flaccid, days-old produce selection at your local Publix, spend a Saturday at the South Miami Farmer’s Market. It’s all about fresh, healthy, local foods, arts and crafts and live entertainment. While on the small side, the retail market’s weekly offering of organic produce, jams, soaps, pastries and other artisan items […]

Splitsville

Once upon a time, the food options at your local bowling alley were stale nachos, school-style pizza, and maybe a dehydrated burger or two. But that is far from the case at Splitsville, located next to the movie box office on the second floor of the Shops at Sunset Place. In fact, the bowling alley […]

Sports Grill

Sports bars should be simple – tasty bar food, cold brews, plenty of TVs. Local chain Sports Grill has this formula down pat, and their South Miami outpost is no exception. Add a nice mix of craft brews to the mix, and arguably Miami’s best wings (get ’em grilled) and you’ve got a winning home […]

Starbucks

Since its founding by a trio of aspiring coffee roasters in Seattle in 1971, Starbucks has grown to become the largest coffeehouse in the world, with upwards of 20,000 locations in Miami and around the world. Named for the chief mate on the whaling ship from Moby Dick, the company didn’t begin chasing the Great […]

Starbucks

Since its founding by a trio of aspiring coffee roasters in Seattle in 1971, Starbucks has grown to become the largest coffeehouse in the world, with upwards of 20,000 locations in Miami and around the world. Named for the chief mate on the whaling ship from Moby Dick, the company didn’t begin chasing the Great […]

Station 5 Table & Bar

The polenta Julia Ning serves at her South Miami restaurant Station 5 Table & Bar is there for a reason. Sure, it’s best topped with a smattering of mushrooms from Sublicious Farms, flash-roasted and then sauteed in white wine and garlic. But it’s also an homage to her Italian grandmother, Nonna Daniela, who traveled to […]

Stir Moon

This small, colorful, minimally decorated restaurant features “create a stir,” by which diners select vegetables and spices from a salad bar and then hand them over to a chef with verbal preferences regarding their choices of nine proteins (chicken, meats, seafoods), ten sauces (peanut, black bean, spicy Szechuan), and five starches (brown or white rice, […]