Restaurants

Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth’s long-awaited Stiltsville Fish Bar opens tonight in Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour neighborhood.

Housed inside the new Iberostar Berkeley Hotel, previously the Berkeley Shore Hotel, in South Beach, BLT Steak churns out doughy popovers, large seafood displays, and a good selection of beef.

There’s a new brunch to try this weekend in South Beach. Forte dei Marmi, a Tuscan-inspired restaurant on Ocean Drive, will debut a buffet and à la carte experience from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, October 1.

New Times’ Iron Fork will celebrate its tenth anniversary on Thursday October 5 at the Hyatt Regency Miami with an evening of delicious food from Miami’s favorite restaurants, a showdown between two of the city’s best chefs, and a brand new competition. This year, two student chefs from Johnson &…

Two years ago, Carolina Quijano left her well-paying finance job in New York City to move back home to South Florida and pursue gourmet chocolate-making. Without any culinary experience, Quijano created Exquisito Chocolates, where she uses ethically sourced cocoa beans to produce chocolate and marshmallow treats.

Restaurateur Stephen Starr is bringing another of his concepts to South Florida when El Vez opens at the W Fort Lauderdale hotel, joining Starr’s Steak 954 in the beachfront resort.

Lolo’s Surf Cantina, a Baja-inspired Mexican restaurant in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood, is now open for breakfast. The early-morning menu is inspired by chef/partner Richard Ampudia’s grandmother, Dolores, for whom the restaurant is named. The fare is a mixture of classic Mexican breakfast dishes with lighter and more conventional items.

For Niven Patel, one of the hardest parts about opening a second location of his Dadeland hit Ghee Indian Kitchen wasn’t the menu, staff, or space. It was telling the NE Second Avenue space’s former tenant and his former boss, Michael Schwartz, that he’d be taking over the room that once held the James Beard Award-winning chef’s Cypress Room.

A new waterfront café concept called Cucuyo is set to open sometime this fall at the Perez Art Museum (PAMM).

Four months since the grand opening of the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Food@Science—the museum’s onsite restaurant—has finally opened its doors.

Wynwood’s Cake Thai has shut its doors. “Probably not reopening as Cake Thai,” restauranteur Javier Ramirez said in a text message. “We will be making a decisions (as to the future of the space) this week.”

The little yellow house by the sea in Islamorada was a total wreck. Irma’s winds had torn the hurricane shutters from the French doors. Huge ocean waves had pushed through and buried the interior in at least two feet of sand and punched holes in the drywall. A wicker chair…

After Irma hit South Florida two weeks ago on Sunday, life is getting back to normal.  Ghee Indian Kitchen, which opened in Dadeland just four months ago and features Gujarati-inspired cuisine, found its farm-to-table philosophy put to the test by Irma’s wrath.

Pink Rock Sea, a new poke shop, is about to sail into 214 Española Way on South Beach. The restaurant joins a roaster of Pacific-inspired concepts located across Miami-Dade, including Poke + Go, Ono, Poké 305, and PokéBao.

It’s been a year since chef Jorgie Ramos opened Barley, an American Brasserie, bringing black truffle burrata cheese, smoked pork belly, and a daily mac ‘n’ cheese dish to Downtown Dadeland.

Though Hurricane Irma put a damper on Miami, it’s time to get out and have a good meal again. Despite the storm, there are many recent restaurant openings, so this weekend, why not try something new?  Here are four places to try.

Hurricane Maria pounded Puerto Rico, leaving the island’s infrastructure severely damaged and virtually everyone without power, phone service, and clean water. Pubbelly’s Jose Mendin was in Barcelona on a business trip when the storm struck the island. A native of Puerto Rico, Mendin was anxious to know how his family and restaurant, PB Ysla, fared in the storm.

New Times’ Iron Fork returns for its tenth anniversary on October 5 with an evening of delicious food from Miami’s best restaurants and a chef showdown between two of the city’s best chefs.

Coconut Grove’s only Peruvian-inspired restaurant, 33 Kitchen, is making its next move. Owners and partners in life Leslie Ames Brachowicz and Sebastian Fernandez are leaving the Grove for Little Havana, where they plan to open another concept in early 2018.

This week, Ofa, a modern Brazilian concept, opened its doors in Sunset Harbour. Created by Brazilian hospitality vets Felipe Ortiz, Carmen Rodriguez, and Lucas Scudeler, the 2,200-square-foot indoor-outdoor restaurant features a lineup of dishes rooted in a range of regions across the South American country, incorporating colorful vegetables, grains, sauces, and curries into many of its items.

urricane Irma has left a few casualties in her wake.First, Miami Beach’s Epicure Market closed permanently, blaming the storm in a Tweet. Now, River Yacht Club and Dashi have closed for an indefinite period of time.

Nearly six months after Jeremy Ford announced his departure from Matador Room, the Top Chef winner returns to Miami Beach this week with the opening his first restaurant, Stubborn Seed.