SOBEWFF 2018: Five Places to Brunch This Weekend Before You Hit the Festival

This year’s food-and-drink-filled marathon that is South Beach Wine & Food Festival is in full swing. Unfortunately, every official brunch event has already sold out. That means you’ll need somewhere to snack before you head off to your first event Saturday and Sunday, because drinking (and eating) on an empty stomach is not acceptable. Here are five new brunches in Miami to check out this weekend.

How to Navigate SOBEWFF 2018

You’re hungry. You’re thirsty. You’re ready for the sun, sand, and celebrity chefs at the 16th-annual Food Network and Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival.But what you really want right now is a game plan. What you need is some professional insight into the best way to tackle what has become one of the nation’s largest annual food festivals.

SOBEWFF 2018: Budget-Friendly Events to Sate Your Thirst and Save Your Wallet

It’s the most delicious time of year — the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Each year, the five-day event attracts many of the nation’s best in the food-and-beverage industry, from wine and spirits professionals to chefs and culinary personalities. Since its inception, the fest has morphed into a world of dinners, seminars, spirits and wine tastings, brunches, lunches, and late-night, celebrity-filled parties.

Broken Shaker Cocktail Mixers Now Available at Williams-Sonoma

If you’ve always wanted to make cocktails at home as good as the Broken Shaker’s, now you can. Bar Lab’s Gabe Orta and Eli Zvi have just announced the release of a line of Broken Shaker cocktail mixers, available exclusively at Williams-Sonoma. Four different mixers retail for $16 each, with…

SOBEWFF 2018: Festival Founder Lee Schrager Celebrates Woman Power

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) returns February 21 through 25 with more events than ever before. When all is said and done, more than 70,000 attendees will have enjoyed nearly 100 parties, dinners, seminars, and tastings. The annual fete, which has raised more than $26 million to date for Florida International University’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, focuses the world’s culinary eyes on the sands of Miami Beach as hundreds of the planet’s most talented chefs converge on the city to cook, mingle, and celebrate food.

Stiltsville Fish Bar Opens for Lunch

If you happen to crave smoked fish dip, fried shrimp, or sugar-dusted beignets, swing by Stiltsville Fish Bar in Sunset Harbour for a midday meal. The upscale seafood shack, owned by Top Chef couple Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth, opens for lunch at 11:30 a.m.

Wynwood Food Hall 1-800-Lucky Brings Asian to Miami

It’s a soggy Sunday evening, and Wynwood’s streets are empty except for a few brave souls rushing to or from their cars. But 1-800-Lucky (143 NW 23rd St., Miami) is filled with people, some of whom are hanging out at the bar to escape the rain-filled patio. Outside, the DJ…

Don Deo Brewing Company Opens in Edgewater

Don Deo Brewing Company is Edgewater’s new place for beer and bites. The brewpub, which quietly opened in December in the former Bin No. 18 space, is run by Eloy Verardi and his family. Born and raised in Venezuela, Verardi got into beer while attending college in Colombia. He began brewing at home and has translated that hobby into a business with Don Deo.