Miamians are plain ol’ plantain-obsessed. We get them fried, double-fried, mashed, heaped atop our sushi — and that just begins to describe how we roll. The stuffed version at Paseo Catracho, a Honduran restaurant at 824 SW Eighth St., takes the cake banana. For a mere $3.50, you can have…
Sonic Beach opens its Miami Gardens location on Wednesday, September 4. This is the third South Florida Sonic Beach, with other locations in Homestead and Fort Lauderdale. The restaurant aims to bring an old-fashioned beachside burger shack to Miami Gardens — complete with servers on roller skates. Sonic Beach will…
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, the sequel to one of the best loved animated films by kids (and critics), is coming to theaters September 27. In this new movie, Inventor Flint Lockwood finds his invention that made spaghetti tornadoes is alive and well — and making foodimals! Flint…
Labor Day Weekend — it’s the holiday that celebrates the miracle of turning a two-day weekend into three days (or four, if you were smart, and took today off). It may be time to concede that this really is the end of summer. But the good news is we have…
A lot of world records have been set in Miami. On October 11, 2009, chefs Michael Schwartz and Allen Susser led a group of high school students to break the Guinness World Record for the largest serving of guacamole. The portion weighed 4,114 pounds, by the way. And on April…
Antonio Bachour oversees a temperature-controlled chamber called the chocolate room. But as he squeezes into this nook at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort today, it’s the macarons that capture his attention. Dressed in a pressed white coat, the bespectacled chef pulls a confection-filled tray from a stack. “Bacon macarons!”…
The Mandarin Oriental Miami has announced that La Mar by Gaston Acurio will open in December, 2013. The new restaurant replaced Cafe Sambal, which closed earlier in the summer. The restaurant and tapas bar will feature chef Acurio’s Peruvian cuisine, with a focus on fresh cebiche and dishes that range…
Antonio Bachour oversees a temperature-controlled chamber called the chocolate room. But as he squeezes into this nook at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort today, it’s the macarons that capture his attention. Dressed in a pressed white coat, the bespectacled chef pulls a confection-filled tray from a stack. “Bacon macarons!”…
Porçao Farm to Grill, a steak house serving clean meats, local produce, and sustainable seafood, is coming to Mary Brickell Village in the early fall. The restaurant, which features premium meats dry-aged in house, an extensive wine cellar, molecular cocktails, and two adjacent lounges, will open in late September…
Democratic Republic of Beer has closed its 14th Street location. The last day open to the public was Saturday, according to the Miami Herald. Luckily, they have a second downtown location at 501 NE First Street, and will migrate there. See also: Democratic Republic of Beer’s Second Location Soft Opening…
The popular Lincoln Road eatery Spris is heading to downtown Miami. The pizzeria’s location is set to open the first week of September and can accommodate 40 in its indoor and outdoor dining areas. The restaurant has long been a favorite of South Beach residents and has been named Best…
The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove is getting exotic for one month with A Passage to India/ Though it sounds like an epic movie starring Meryl Streep, A Passage to India is actually the name of the pop-up restaurant taking over the luxury property’s restaurant Bizcaya from Thursday, October 3, through Sunday,…
The Cafe at Books & Books has long been a Lincoln Road fixture. In a sea of cafes with colorful umbrellas offering overpriced and underwhelming food for unaware tourists, Books & Books served up honest, delicious meals at reasonable prices. Plus, if you forgot reading material, a good story (and…
Danilo Gonzalez opened the Art Place Wynwood five years ago, a time when the neighborhood boasted more drab warehouses than posh galleries and specialty cafés. But things have changed a lot since then. Now the arts district is home to trendy restaurants, bars, and shops. “The transformation of Wynwood is…
Sweetness is cupcakes, creative sandwiches, homemade red velvet twinkies, and a grand opening party with Quiky, the Nesquick bunny, giving away free chocolate milk. We have previously covered the opening of Sweetness Bakeshop and Cafe in Hialeah but we finally got to check it out and sink our teeth into…
Vegan Chefs, Dreaming of Success, Emerge in Miami
Peruse the menu at many of Miami’s fine-dining establishments and you’ll see proclamations of farm-fresh produce complete with the names of the farms where your tomato or mango was lovingly grown. That’s all well and good, but have you ever stopped to think where cheaper, lesser-known restaurants get their vegetables?…
Patpong Road, 50 Eggs’ newest concept, opens this Friday, August 23, above Khong River House. The intimate lounge, which is open only Friday and Saturday evenings from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., is designed to invoke Bankok’s infamous Patpong Road. In addition to food stalls, another form of flesh is…
Pork skin and pork fat aren’t exactly standard fare for a vegan diet. So chicharrónes are an unlikely find on an all-herbivorous menu. But find them, we did. At Bird Road’s Beehive Juice Bar, Brazilian owner Carlos Schichi cooks up this signature snack for reformed meat eaters, heart attack sufferers,…
Nine years ago, New York’s hamburger landscape changed forever when an unassuming shack began serving up humanely raised 100% Angus beef. Danny Meyer got his start in the 80’s with Union Swuare Hospitality, eventually leading him to his little roadside cart that took root in the fine-casual burger market, and…
Keith Kalmanowicz is a busy guy. In the past two hours, he’s petted a black emu, chatted up a Jamaican medicine man, shown me a composting toilet, and confessed that he’s fed a chubby pig named Shuffles perhaps too much brioche. Sitting on a bench at Earth N’ Us Farm…
“Sorry, we’re not getting them in until Wednesday.” That was my answer at the first Taco Bell I drove through yesterday afternoon. Even though the Mexican-ish fast-food company had moved up the release of the new Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos from the original August 22 launch date to August 19,…
