Food & Drink

The Miami Book Fair will take place this Sunday, November 12, through next Sunday, November 19. This year’s festival will present more than 500 authors, 30 of whom will promote food-related books.

Grab a selfie stick and a portable phone charger, because the Museum of Ice Cream will open Wednesday, December 13, in the Faena District (3400 Collins Ave., Miami Beach). Expect crowds and long lines, because the museum is expected to draw thousands of people to taste, smell, touch, and photograph a collection of ice-cream paraphernalia.

Gregory Bennati believes life should be sweet, which is why the former real-estate agent and Italian native recently opened Miami Beach’s first and only specialty açaí shop, Berri Bar.

New York City-based Thor Equities has begun construction on Wynwood Walk, which will bring a restaurant, a rooftop venue, and thousands of square feet of retail space to the southwest corner of NW 29th Street and NW Second Avenue. Once completed, the project, along with Thor’s mixed-use condo, Wynwood Plant, will add more than 100,000 square feet of retail to the north end of the neighborhood. No word yet on the restaurant concept.

Funky, graffiti-style caricatures of pizza, beer, and cigarettes are painted in red, orange, and yellow across the walls of a half-wooden, half-tented structure on the southeast corner of Jungle Plaza in the Design District. Inside, a team of cooks smears cheese and drizzles honey onto disks of dough laid out…

At the Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Doggystyle churns out gourmet, made-from-scratch sausages topped with everything from papitas and caramelized onions to black bean mango salsa and guacamole.

If you’re a fan of Miami’s taco scene, you can’t miss New Times’ Tacolandia. The event will take over Wynwood’s Soho Studios Saturday, November 18, from 3 to 6 p.m., when more than 30 of Miami’s favorite taco spots will offer unlimited eats.

About a block from Lincoln Road, Rosetta Bakery attracts a steady stream of customers via Italian breads, pastries, and small plates. Now the Collins Avenue concept, which opened in November 2015, is set to expand with cafés in Brickell, Aventura, and North Beach.

Another Seed Food & Wine Week is in the books, and thousands of omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans flocked to various Miami venues to eat their weight in plant-based food over the weekend.

1-800-Lucky, an Asian-themed marketplace set to open this month, will offer six food vendors from around the country, a karaoke bar, and a small theater in a 10,000 square-foot space — all disguised as a record shop and convenience store.

As locals savor cooler temperatures, Honeybee Doughnuts in South Miami recently debuted the city’s first hot chocolate bar.