Restaurants

At Courtney’s Cookies, a web-based Miami food business, a batch of warm and doughy chocolate chip cookies is made entirely vegan and gluten-free.

This week, Roberta’s, the popular restaurant and pizza shop based in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, will fire up its oven in Miami’s Design District for the last time.

The weekend is finally here, and that means making brunch plans with the squad. Sure, it’s nice to go out for a lavish brunch at a lovely eatery like Rusty Pelican, but every now and then, it’s a great idea to make brunch at home. This weekend, surprise your loved ones with a homemade pork belly waffle sandwich with maple mustard sauce. Rusty Pelican’s eastern regional chef, Jim Pastor, will show you how.

Cafe Roval is a perfect getaway for a peaceful Sunday brunch. Unless it’s raining, pick a table outside near the restaurant’s coral rock pond. The menu includes a host of breakfast-style items and a few of Café Roval’s staple Mediterranean plates, such as a mezze platter and a falafel salad.

Aventura Mall is quickly becoming the dining mecca of North Miami-Dade, with eateries and a food hall opening fast and furious at the shopping center.

Chef Chloe Coscarelli is known as much for her fresh, colorful creations as she is for her megawatt smile. And the menu of options at her new eatery inside the Design District’s St. Roch Market is everything the world has come to expect from the vegan culinarian.

Boathouse at the Riverside has officially launched as a dock-and-dine, riverfront restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. The spot celebrated its grand opening March 13.

Had enough green beer? Find something sweeter. Whether you choose cupcakes, ice cream, milkshakes, or other confections, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by satisfying your sweet tooth at any of these Miami spots.

This is the last week of business for Fort Lauderdale favorite Hot & Soul — at least for the time being. The restaurant will be open this Tuesday through Thursday but then will close the doors at 3045 N. Federal Hwy.

It hasn’t been an easy few days for Miami restaurants. Last week, Federal Donuts and Dizengoff — two concepts by James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov — closed, and now another local favorite, Proof Pizza & Pasta, is on its way out.

On a cool Friday evening, music thumps through the Design District’s $1.4 billion Palm Court as shoppers browse the shelves of the Dior, Versace, and Louis Vuitton boutique stores. A frenetic Latin-jazz band plays at the center of the outdoor square while stylishly dressed throngs scurry up an escalator toward…

Graziano’s, the Magic City’s homegrown Argentine market and restaurant chain, is behind South Miami’s latest pizza shop, Lucia Pizzeria, offering Neapolitan-influeneced pies and a sizable wine list.

Inside the new Wynwood food hall 1-800-Lucky, find an unlikely vegan gem: Poke OG. The California-based restaurant serves hearty bowls of seafood poke, but it also specializes in vegetable-centric items that swap fish for colorful fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, truffles, and pineapple.

On the heels of the departure of the highly admired Wynwood fast-casual eateries Dizengoff and Federal Donuts, rotisserie-chicken spot Le Chick will open next week on the same block where the two concepts resided.

Amara at Paraiso, Michael Schwartz’s latest restaurant, is behind a new waterfront Sunday brunch in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. The toothsome affair, hosted every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., offers a large selection of Latin American-influenced items washed down with a slate of tropical cocktails.

This Sunday, local chef Llordel Taylor will host a pop-up movie and brunch event featuring the Miami premiere of “The Rape of Recy Taylor.”

Lime Fresh Mexican Grill is back in business in Miami Beach. The local fast-casual restaurant chain that debuted in South Beach in 2004 has opened the doors to its eighth restaurant in the space once occupied by the chain’s flagship, an 800-square-foot spot at 1439 Alton Rd.

Seawell Fish n’ Oyster and Minnow Bar will soon open as two destinations at Kimpton Angler’s South Beach. Seawell Fish n’ Oyster is set to debut in late spring as part of the South Beach hotel’s extensive renovation. The restaurant will boast a nautical theme complemented by an outdoor lounge and patio area that can be used for communal dining.

Coyo Taco veteran Anna Robbins is behind a new Mexican spot expected to open by the end of March in North Bay Village. News broke when Robbins and her husband were spotted at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Tacos After Dark last month. He was wearing a T-shirt printed with “222 Taco,” which was later revealed to be Robbins’ latest project. “It’s food for the people,” she says.

In the early-morning hours in late spring 2013, Jason and Melanie Schoendorfer gathered a cooler full of homemade bacon and sausage, several dozen eggs, and a few cases of fluffy rolls and headed for the weekly Pinecrest Gardens Farmers Market.

Freddy and Danielle Kaufmann’s quaint Miami Shores butcher shop, Proper Sausages, has been the go-to spot for artisanal sausages and responsibly sourced meat since it opened in 2013. The shop also offers an exceptional grab-and-go sandwich menu made with the antibiotic- and hormone-free, grass-fed, organic meats and poultry it sells.