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  Venezuela's Christmas Dishes and the People Who Make Them Outshine the Rest

  Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  Around 1 a.m. one night in November 2010, Roberto Gonzalez was on his way home from the Caracas restaurant where he worked when he noticed a truck's headlights lingering too close for too long. He hit the gas and began rushing through the roller coaster of hilly roads surrounding the...

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  Fiola Is the Third Restaurant With Michelin Bona Fides to Open in Miami This Year

  Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  An overwhelming joy hides in a wide bowl of crushed ice adorned with an ounce of caviar, three of the vivid red Spanish shrimp called carabineros, buttery slices of hamachi lounging in rosewater, and sweet, slightly briny sea scallops spritzed with lime and fresh coconut milk. Such delights don't come...

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  Amir Ben-Zion Creates a Village at the Vagabond Hotel

  Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 11:06 a.m.

  It was 5 p.m. Thursday, October 25, the day before Vagabond Sushi was to open, when Amir Ben-Zion addressed a group of employees finishing a wine and food tasting as part of their training. Ceramic cup of sake in hand, he told the two dozen servers and bartenders sitting around...

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  Seafood Legend David Garcia Keeps Captain Jim's on Course

  Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  Captain Jim's might well have burned down years ago. "Once we got in here and opened up the ceiling, I was surprised it never caught fire," says David Garcia, who took over the iconic North Miami restaurant early this year. "The place was a dump. It was so dirty I...

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  Upper Buena Vista Is a New Restaurant Mecca

  Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  Names can make neighborhoods. Take, for instance, SoBe, Wynwood, MiMo, or Brickell. Simply hearing one of them conjures images, maybe of the beach, an iconic building, or a road lined with cars spitting out exhaust. Now, quickly, what do you imagine when you hear "Buena Vista"? We'll do it for...

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  Thomas Keller's Surf Club Restaurant Shouldn't Forget the Locals

  Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  At the Surf Club Restaurant, a ritzy remake of a 1930s classic, waiters are referred to as captains, beef Wellington sells for $125, and reservations must be made weeks in advance even though the place opened less than a month ago. Its prices and quality are among Miami's highest, rivaling...