Restaurants

Just open a little more than a month, Pepitería 13 is alive with people munching on pepitos, the sandwich served on nearly every street corner in Venezuela.

A generous slice of salmon is cooked sous vide and flash-heated for a minute inside a wood-fired oven. The fish is heavily coated in a crunchy everything-bagel seasoning and then perched on a plate of the French white cheese fromage blanc, smeared in the shape of a half-moon. A tangy…

Miami Beach’s Hank & Harry’s Deli, a New York-style delicatessen founded by local restaurateurs Buzzy Sklar and Richard Booth, will bring corned beef and pastrami to Aventura Mall this week.

After months of delay, Sushi Azabu, a Michelin-starred concept based in New York, is finally ready to open. Inside the Stanton South Beach, the restaurant will debut Friday, January 19, with a hidden sushi counter, a formal dining room, and a snazzy cocktail bar.

At Yardbird Southern Table & Bar, weekends are particularly busy. For eight hours on Saturday and Sunday, the restaurant, which first debuted in 2011, serves comfort food items, from biscuits and fried chicken to mac ‘n’ cheese and fried tomatoes. It’s one of the longest-running brunches in South Beach, in…

The newest addition to Miami Beach’s trendy Sunset Harbour neighborhood churns out granola bowls in the morning and traditional poke mixed with vegetables, seasonings, and sauces in the afternoon.

About four months ago, more than 20,000 confections flooded the FIU Arena for Dessert Wars. Dozens of local vendors offered a hodgepodge of sweets, from cookies and brownies to ice cream, cupcakes, and chocolate. Now, Miami’s leading dessert festival is gearing up to return January 20.

This Friday, January 12, will be an extra-sweet day at the Salty Donut. That’s when the Wynwood-based shop will revive its legendary sticky-bun doughnut in collaboration with Knaus Berry Farm.

Whole Foods Market has upped its food game with the debut of a Dadeland location. The 46,000-square-foot store, which opened today at 9 a.m., stocks the usual organic foods, wines, craft beers, and ready-to-eat foods. It also offers a bevy of items from Miami purveyors, a coffee bar, a juice bar on tap, and a gastropub. The sprawling market replaces the smaller Pinecrest location.

Taiyaki, famous for its fish-shaped cones and exotic flavored ice cream, has created the most adorable treat known to mankind: Unicorn ice cream. This magical ice cream cone has been causing a sensation at Taiyaki’s flagship shop in New York City for months and now it’s coming to Miami. Taiyaki…

Alessandro Buono has always loved the delicate sweets of his native Sicily but was never quite an adept baker. Nevertheless, the now heavily tattooed and pierced 22-year-old and his family late last year opened Sciuri Pasticceria e Rosticceria Siciliana just off South Beach’s Fifth Street.

Bal Harbour Shops, an open-air luxury retail center with stores such as Gucci, Prada, and Fendi, will host a curated lineup of ice-cream pop-ups this weekend to benefit UM/Jackson Memorial’s Holtz Children’s Hospital.

If you’re a brunch lover, you need to check out South Florida’s ultimate brunch celebration: New Times’ Out to Brunch at Soho Studios in Wynwood.

Dennis Garcia glances at a wall inside an Alton Road storefront covered with more than 40 iPads. When an order rings in, the 20-year-old with a polished swoop of black hair pulls a handful of noodles from a waist-high refrigerator and drops them into a sputtering fryer. Working in a…

Over the past two years, the mobile apps that put almost any dish a couch-bound eater could want within a moderate wait has also put Miami restaurants in a pickle.

180 Degrees at the DRB will close following an all-you-can-eat blowout this Sunday. The restaurant, which was recognized for serving the best burger in Miami in 2015 by New Times, will not reopen after Sunday service, according to a Facebook post.

Wind chill values in the Miami metro area will be in the upper 30s on both Thursday and Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Luckily, we have churros and hot chocolate. One might liken them to the delights found in hot doughnuts and apple cider further up the…

The last month of 2017 saw the opening of some good establishments and the closing of a favorite. Panther Coffee doubled down by opening two new locations, and chef Eileen Andrade opened Amelia’s 1931, a retro Cuban diner. The Palace Bar reopened on Ocean Drive, and chef/partners Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth opened a satellite of their New York City restaurant, Root & Bone. Finally, Mignonette Uptown closed, though the original location continues to thrive.

As Miami prepares for the biggest night of the year, start the party early with a boozy Sunday brunch. From Miami Beach to Doral, look for restaurants offering bottomless bubbly and unlimited plates of food. Before donning your New Year’s Eve tiara, savor caviar towers, warm popovers, and pours of your favorite libation at one of these five restaurants.

“I did everything I thought I did right at the other two restaurants,” Danny Serfer says. Nevertheless, the North Miami Beach location of his and partner Ryan Roman’s Mignonette shuttered earlier this month, leaving about 20 employees without jobs just before the holidays and leaving the restaurateurs, who’ve enjoyed runaway success since Serfer opened Blue Collar on Biscayne Boulevard in 2012, scratching their heads in confusion.

Miami Beach is in for a New Year’s treat. Panther Coffee has opened a fifth location, inside the Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive in South Beach.