It’s Christmas Day. By now you’ve drank all the egg nog, opened your gifts from Santa, and spent enough time with the family to start going nuts. The day after Christmas means trips to the mall to return the stuff that didn’t fit, but it’s also a good time to…
There’s something about cold weather, warm coffee, and New England-style food that ignites a feeling of holiday cheer. Though low temperatures seem to be a distant memory for Miamians, Izzy’s Fish & Oyster offers an abundance of homey, traditional Northeastern food and lots of hot coffee to make up for it. Its…
The holiday season is in full swing and picturesque day trips are at an all-time high on your Facebook timeline. But if a weekend getaway to Naples isn’t in the cards this year, Palmeiras Beach Club (4 Grove Isle Dr.), at the end of Grove Isle, is a happy medium…
Apeiro Kitchen & Bar opened this past October in Midtown Miami, bringing one of Delray Beach’s most popular restaurants south. The eatery, named for the Latin word for infinity, offers a Mediterranean-inspired menu by South Florida restaurateur Burt Rapoport and executive chef/partner David Blonsky, featuring cuisine from the coasts of…
Miami is a city that has its fair share of crime and n’er do wells. To counter that, it’s a town filled with excess wealth and glamorous people. That melding of extreme ups and downs is what makes Miami so damn fascinating. OUr culinary scene is a reflection of our…
The “great migration” of chefs to Coconut Grove continues with the imminent opening of Glass & Vine in Peacock Park, at the old library space (2820 McFarlane Rd.). Grove Bay Hospitality Group and Giorgio Rapicavoli will open the restaurant in January 2016, with the chef designing both the restaurant and…
Nestled inside Aventura’s Turnberry Isle resort is Bourbon Steak, James Beard award-winning chef and restaurateur Michael Mina’s modern American steakhouse. Though you wouldn’t know from the outside, Sundays inside the eatery have been made a tradition with the launch of a new three-course brunch menu helmed by executive chef Gabriel Fenton…
If you’ve been driving north on Biscayne Boulevard and haven’t thought much about the restaurant attached to the car wash across from FIU, it might be time to think again. For nearly seven years, Julio Bertoni ran his eponymous restaurant as a semi-upscale Argentine eatery offering wine, beer, and a…
Recently I was invited up to the test kitchen of RA Sushi and Benihana to see what the chefs working on. I was a little confused when I reached the address. Instead of a restaurant or industrial cooking space, I found myself in a super modern Leeds-certified office building in…
For the last 33 years, Santa’s Enchanted Forest hasn’t changed much. It still holds the title of largest Christmas theme park, coincidentally located in the warmest place during this time of year. There’s bright lights, large Christmas trees, games, animals, old-school rides, and an overabundance of fried, greasy carnival food we know…
Le Cordon Bleu, the school where Julia Child learned how to cook, is closing all its schools. A notice on the school’s website informs students: As announced in December 2015, Le Cordon Bleu will begin a gradual process of discontinuing operations. As a result, January 4, 2016 will be the…
For almost three decades the Persad family ran a Trinidadian catering outfit in Rochester, New York. Then, earlier this year they decided they’d had enough of the cold and relocated their business to South Beach to open the first of its kind on the falafel-and-pizza-drenched island. “There was demand for…
Spending a couple hundred dollars for an all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse experience is no longer di rigeur. Brazilian Fire, a South Florida-born food truck, offers a rodizio-style meal that includes meat slow-cooked over all-natural wood coals in a kitchen-on-wheels about the size of a bedroom. “Most food trucks offer a new…
Chefs Jeff McInnis and Janine can now begin earnest work on their new Sunset Harbour restaurant and rooftop patio after they received the essential nod from the City of Miami Beach last evening. The approval took about an hour and a half at yesterday’s city planning board meeting. The chefs…
London-based app Velocity Mobile, a politically correct way to “dine and dash,” has launched in Miami. The digital hospitality platform, which allows diners to pay for dinner through a mobile device, is available at 850 venues around the world, including 74 Michelin star restaurants. Miami marks the seventh Velocity-friendly city, with…
When Hedy Goldsmith announced she was leaving her executive pastry chef position with Michael Schwartz after two decades to pursue a new life in Los Angeles, all of Miami felt a loss. Not only was Goldsmith a great chef, she was much loved in the community for her work with…
A lush banana leaf arrives wrapped up like a Christmas present. A small dish of vinegar and oil topped with parsley shreds is tinted rose thanks to red onion slivers. As you peel open the package, a puff of steam flutters out. It’s followed by the deep, earthy scent of…
Aside from a handful of dearly departed closures (think Kris Wessel’s Oolite) 2015 was a banner year for dining in Miami-Dade. Blood began pumping through the burgeoning MiMo District as The Vagabond opened its doors and Cake Thai Kitchen became a fast favorite. The beach continued to flood with celebrity…
It begins with inky slugs of homemade blood sausage. They’re filled with pork blood, rice, onion, and smoky pimiento, then plunked into a boil with hunks of heart, tongue, and feet. Over time, the bubbling chocolate-colored broth leeches out the best of each ingredient and becomes rich, porky, and free…
NaiYaRa isn’t even officially open to the public, and already there’s a buzz about the place. The restaurant by Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, known to most of Miami as Chef Bee, opens tomorrow, December 15, but all last week the chef hosted preview dinners with the dining room awash with fellow restaurateurs,…
To most Europeans, America is “that annoying country where customers have to subsidize employee wages” — i.e. where bars and restaurants pay low wages and expect customers to make up the difference. In recent years, however, a progressive national movement dedicated to eliminating the practice has gained momentum. With restaurateur…
Brunch at the Continental has character. It fuses the feeling of a ’60s diner with high-quality, gourmet eats and drinks at a reasonable price. Its newly released weekend meal serves an array of breakfast and lunch favorites with a retro-chic twist. The menu, crafted by chef Matthew Oetting, is divided into…
