Pack Supermarket and Cafeteria

Over the past three decades, Little Haiti’s Pack Supermarket has become a kind community for the surrounding neighborhood, all thanks to fried chicken. During lunch, dozens of cops, executives, and working stiffs line up for the stuff. Sunday mornings, crowds of churchgoers mingle with bouncers from downtown clubs and spandex-clad cyclists while awaiting fragrant Styrofoam […]

Palace Bar & Restaurant

Stop by the Palace for a very South Beach experience. The gay-friendly restaurant and bar, which has been going strong for more than three decades, stages drag shows every evening and drag brunches on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Otherwise, know that the venue contains two bars: one indoors and designed for nighttime use, the […]

Palat

Italian eatery Palat opened in January 2018. Chef/owner Pippo Lamberti offers a small but robust selection of plates, including charred octopus with artichoke and rosemary pesto and beet ravioli complemented by goat cheese and hazelnuts. Lamberti, who hails from a family of restaurant owners in the Northeast, worked at Café Boulud in Palm Beach before […]

Palate Party

Food trucks are a dime a dozen these days — but it’s the rare mobile kitchen that uses local produce and sustainable seafood to make an eclectic assortment of painstakingly prepared edibles. Enter former Hell’s Kitchen contestant Robyn Almodovar — the brains behind this beast on wheels. Nosh on items like her BBQ short rib […]

Pamela’s Restaurante Chileno

Pamela Canales has been well known in the neighborhood since she began selling empanadas from her house in 1979. That arrangement sufficed until 1991, when Pamela’s Delicatessen premiered in its current spot. Now it’s a combination market/bakery/cafe/full-service Chilean restaurant. The first three are housed in the front room; the adjacent main dining room is a […]