The Tides South Beach is giving locals a reason to brave the early afternoon weekend crowds on Ocean Drive. The Art Deco hotel’s outdoor restaurant is serving up a brunch menu on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring several dishes inspired by southern comfort food to…
Meat and muscles have long been considered a dynamic duo. The puns alone speak volumes: meatheads and beefcakes anyone? But the world is changing, and no longer is meat considered the wondrous protein source of yesteryear. Thanks to flicks like Forks Over Knives, people of all kinds are getting on…
Here’s a little riddle for you: What’s black and white and fed all over? The people who work inside the zebra-striped Wynwood Building when Miam Cafe & Boutique opens at the iconic gallery/work space. See also: Mmmm to Open in Wynwood…
The singer sways his hips and croons an indistinguishable tune. In almost all circumstances, he’d be considered unusual: a thin man with a floppy fishing hat, blue shirt, and pleated khakis pulled too high on his waist. He looks like Gilligan in a cruise ship’s karaoke bar. Gyrating in the…
It looks too good to be healthful. The “mental lentil” collard wrap ($16) at Choices Café is crammed with black beans, lentils, onion, pico de gallo, bell pepper, avocado, plantain, and vegan cheese. Collard greens replace the wheat tortilla. The wrap is vibrant, its colorful filling stacked like sand art…
Chef Michael Schwartz and Jorge Perez, the CEO and Chariman of The Related Group, have just announced a collaboration for a waterfront restaurant and beach club at Paraiso Bay and One Paraiso. Located in the East Edgewater neighborhood, this new collaboration is still in the early, early phases. The restaurant…
It looks too good to be healthful. The “mental lentil” collard wrap ($16) at Choices Caf� is crammed with black beans, lentils, onion, pico de gallo, bell pepper, avocado, plantain, and vegan cheese. Collard greens replace the wheat tortilla. The wrap is vibrant, its colorful filling stacked like sand art…
The singer sways his hips and croons an indistinguishable tune. In almost all circumstances, he’d be considered unusual: a thin man with a floppy fishing hat, blue shirt, and pleated khakis pulled too high on his waist. He looks like Gilligan in a cruise ship’s karaoke bar. Gyrating in the…
Gator’s Dockside, a restaurant group in Lake Mary, Florida, has gotten a lot of press lately. It seems the corporate-owned restaurants are charging a 1 percent Affordable Care Act surcharge to compensate for the restaurants’ additional costs associated with providing health care to their full-time employees when Obamacare’s employer mandate…
February was a huge month for the Miami food scene. The South Beach Wine & Food Festival brought a slew of celebrity chefs — all wanting to be enchanted by our city’s restaurants and bars. And if the likes of Geoffrey Zakarian, Martha Stewart, and Rachael Ray were feeling peckish,…
With tasty fare made from handpicked, fresh ingredients, the chef-owned Konata’s in North Miami has been sating locals for more than four years. Mr. Konata makes his Jamaican heritage apparent with the d�cor and cuisine. It is a spare but quirky shack filled with colorful photos of Rastafarian leaders such…
Living a healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to forgo all convenience foods. You’re busy, you’re on-the-go, you’re the master of your universe, and you sure as hell don’t want to be stuck eating McDonald’s out of desperation. Sometimes, everyone just needs to eat something out of a plastic wrapper…
If you’re a fan of Top Chef (or of Miami’s Nina Compton), you probably watched a bit smugly for Padma Lakshmi’s pronouncement of the winner of this season, only to be in complete shock and denial when Nicholas Elmi was declared victorious. No doubt, all of Miami (and Saint Lucia)…
Ladur�e’s famous macarons have landed in Miami Beach. The luxury French pastry shop has opened its third U.S. location (there are two in New York City), on Lincoln Road. To celebrate the occasion and pay homage to South Beach’s roots, the brand has designed a limited-edition, art deco-style macaron box…
It’s no secret that fruits and vegetables are the health Holy Grail. As author and professor Michael Pollan so succinctly said: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” But it’s not quite as simple as chowing down on anything you find in the produce aisle, because lots of it is…
“You drove all the way to Sweetwater for a burger?” The answer is yes. And we’d do it again in an artery-clogged heartbeat. After compiling a list of Miami’s Five Most Outrageous Burgers, we were told that A&G’s Burger Joint was “outta hand.” We headed over and our hands, mouth…
Top Chef alum and Italian heartthrob Fabio Viviani is closer than ever to opening Siena Tavern in Miami. The restaurant, a partnership between Viviani and DineAmic Group of Chicago, are bringing the successful Siena Tavern to the former China Grill space on 5th and Washington. Though Viviani hails from Italy,…
Cookie delivery has become a thing. Several late-night delivery services have popped up over the past couple of months, but only two offer more healthful, eggless, vegan alternatives. Om Nom Nom Cookies was Miami’s first fully vegan cookie business to take treats from the oven to your doorstep. Now there’s…
Matthew Kenney recently visited five countries in the span of a week. It was an educational trip for the American chef, and Kenney’s eager to put his unique spin on the knowledge he’s accumulated. One of his stops was in Denmark, as Copenhagen is home to some of the world’s…
Ali Lauria thought everything would arrive unscathed. It was not long before rush hour on a sunny January evening when she stacked 30 dozen eggs on the passenger seat of a silver Dodge Ram and drove north from Homestead on Florida’s Turnpike. Filled with strawberries and tomatoes, the pickup truck’s…
No food trucks allowed on the beach? No problem. The solution: 5 Napkin Express. You might be familiar with 5 Napkin Grill, the Lincoln Road outpost whose originator hails from the Big Apple and is wildly famous for the namesake dish. If you’ve been there, you know the matzo ball…
When I made the decision to go vegan, I was as mentally prepared as possible to sacrifice milk and dairy, but there were a few favorite items that made the choice more challenging. Namely, cheese, Wet Willie’s Bahama Mamas, and boba milk tea. For anyone not lucky enough to have…
