Restaurants

Amir Ben-Zion: In South Street and Cooper Avenue, Miami’s Hottest Restaurateur Embarks on His Most Ambitious Ventures

In other weird news, HoneyBaked has announced it will ham it up in Miami by opening pop-up store. There are currently three locations in greater Miami-Dade, but the new pop-up, to go up in Southland Mall, will give residents of South Miami Heights and Cutler Bay an alternative to Butterball…

Miami Gardens is a mecca for interesting food. Consider for example Lorna’s Restaurant, the Caribbean place that for the last six years has offered up a variety of fresh dishes influenced by Jamaican, Bahamain and American cooking. Thankfully restaurant matriarch Lorna Westmoreland’s son, Matari Bodie, opened a downtown Miami outpost about…

When Villa Mayfair closed for the summer, there was speculation that the restaurant, which serves upscale Mediterranean/French fare accompanied by live D.J.’s might be a bit much for its artsy Coconut Grove locale. Then again, the chef is French and might just have wanted to spend a season soaking up…

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Instead of bringing some insipid blood-covered body part…

One day, Rich Roll, a 41-year-old father of four, was out for what he planned would be a five or six mile run. Maybe it was the plant-based vegan diet he had recently adopted, or some primal, ancestral energy stream he had suddenly tapped into, but on that particular day,…

You’ve probably read about blue lobsters, those rare neon-colored crustaceans. Now, Red the Steakhouse is inviting you to taste one.Read Also:- Red the Steakhouse Has Kobe from Japan: Is it Worth It?The lobsters are Brittany Blues, taken from the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Scotland and…

Slide show: Closer Look: Mixtura in Coral Gables.

Toro Toro opens tomorrow, October 25, at the InterContinental hotel in downtown Miami. The restaurant is part of a renovation of the hotel, which was once Miami’s largest and finest convention property. With many new hotels opening in downtown, the InterContinental’s facelift, which includes artwork installations and interactive coffee tables…

By 8 a.m. crews are already lining up outside of Shell Lumber on the corner of U.S. 1 and 27th Avenue. Yet it’s not plywood or tool parts they’re after. It’s hot dogs, bratwurst and mini hamburgers. The half-block-long hardware store has been in business 84 years and remains a…

There’s no shortage of effort or money being put into Momi Ramen, housed in a tiny red brick building on a Brickell side street in the shadow of nearby condo towers. The small eatery, sparse inside with columns of bamboo, steel moldings and decorations, and exposed brick walls, is planned…

A few cosmetic bits of La Cofradia, the now-closed Peruvian restaurant that was once the best in Coral Gables, remain in the space now known as Mixtura, but that’s all. Nestor Rojas and Miguel Hilck, partners in a North Beach Peruvian restaurant of the same name, bought the space earlier…

Miami has its fair share of delectable desserts. From Hedy Goldsmith’s homemade Nutter Butters to Icebox Café’s Chocolate Delight, we’ve got enough goodies to keep local dentists on their toes. But there’s only one cookie company whipping up sweet treats that bear the distinction of being cruelty-free: Om Nom Nom…

When my little posse and I rolled up to the fence surrounding Earth N Us Farms in Little Haiti, I wore a confident face in an attempt to reassure my obviously skeptical guests.The truth is, though, that I was nearly as apprehensive about the vegan pop-up event we were about…

Everyone can rejoice! South Beach Wine & Food Festival tickets are now available for everyone who didn’t (or couldn’t) get in on the Mastercard privy access. Hooray! We peons are now able to choose from the wide variety of events to take place February 21 – 23, 2013. We here…

Siam Rice has different tasty specials every night. Most of them under $10. Check the bullentin board for daily specials.

Thousands of hungry and thirsty people converged upon Grand Central Miami last evening to eat, drink and be merry at New Times’ fifth annual Iron Fork.  Over three dozen of Miami’s hottest restaurants served up some fine eats while a host of open bars attended to the liquid needs of…

When Paragon Grove 14 opened its new multiplex at CocoWalk in 2010, with all stadium reserved seating and Sony 4k digital projection, it was a major upgrade over the old, run-down AMC Theatre it replaced. Now Paragon has added new luxury dine-in theaters and an expanded menu at The Lot…

Though Scotty’s Landing doesn’t seem in as dire circumstances today as a few months back, the landmark waterfront joint’s future is still uncertain.Read Also: Five Bids in for Scotty’s Landing Replacement: More Burgers, Less CharmGoodbye Scotty’s Landing: Miami Ups Rent Request by Tens of Thousands on Waterfront PropertiesScotty’s Landing: Five…

As if it weren’t already hard enough to decide where to eat and drink amidst Midtown’s many options – it’s about to get even tougher with the addition of Bar Louie, a tavern-esque concept known for handcrafted martinis and American comfort food. The new addition plans to open its doors…

Robyn Almodovar and Alfredo Montero are normally very good friends.  After all, they have a lot in common. Both of their food trucks, Mr. Good Stuff and Palate Party, have won countless awards for their creative menus and delicious foods and  both chefs have been featured on television (Montero was…

Tikl Restaurant Review: Brickell’s Small-Plates Concept Deserves a Leisurely Visit